Last November Density Design has been invited by the School of Art and Architecture of Stockholm to organize a workshop of data visualization with the student of a master. They were working on the same topic, the city of Pune in India, trying to understand how to visualize some data about the city.
Students had different background studies, [...]

We are proud to present our research in the visualization of complex systems at the Arts | Humanities | Complex Networks — a Leonardo satellite symposium at NetSci 2010 taking place at BarabásiLab — Center for Complex Network Research, Northeastern University in Boston, MA, on Monday, May 10, 2010.

This is a map of Europe as you’ve never seen it. It shows how people in the 27 EU states perceive the impact of the internet and mobile phones on their lives – and then contrasts this with their actual penetration in each country. We wanted to explore new ways to visualize such complex data. [...]

On March 23-24th i’ll held a conference in Bari, at the Polytechnic, about “Wayfinding and the Image of the City”
During the first day i’ll talk about the history of wayfinding and maps, then we’ll start a short workshop about the visualization of the city. The students will be asked to think of their relationship with [...]

What challenges are we going to face in the next 10 years? And what kind of ideas are going to help us in overcoming them?
Even though predicting the future is not a game, a game is exactly what the Institute for the Future used to answer these dilemmas: 8 October 2008, Jane McGonigal, reasearcher at [...]

We have been officially invited to present the CityMurmur project at the Emerging Technologies conference at SIGGRAPH09. Citymumur NewOrleans will be launch on the 3rd of August on the occasion of the first day of the conference.
For those who have never heard anything about the SIGGRAPH (short for Special Interest Group on GRAPHics and Interactive [...]

On 3rd and 4th June, CityMurmur project (www.citymurmur.org) landed in Paris to take part to HyperUrbain.2, a conference about Information Technologies and Communication in urban areas, which was at its second edition this year.
Theme of the symposium was “la ville cartographiée” (the city map), and to give our contribute to the discussion, we were warmly [...]

This morning flipping trough the last issue of the Economist, I ran into an interesting article titled “Mapping a Better World“. Since we have been working together with the LA based NGO Iridescent Learning in the “Urban Schools Needs Project”, I’ve became quiet familiar with the shape of Los Angeles. When, flipping the last page [...]

A very interesting set of conferences (about to end but we’re still in time) about cartography. The occasion is the next issue of the Atlas of Le Monde Diplomatique.

http://www.cartografareilpresente.org
http://www.cartografareilpresente.org/spip.php?page=cartes&lang=it
http://www.france-bologna.it
http://www.dds.unibo.it
SIMPOSIO “GEOPOLITICA E MIGRAZIONI”
Complesso di San Giovanni in Monte, Aula Prodi, Piazza San Giovanni in
Monte 2, Bologna. Sabato 30 maggio, ore 10
Saluti: Carla Giovannini [...]

My PhD Thesis – Work in progress, year 1/3.
Throughout the centuries cities have been constantly changing, together with their image, their imageability. Therefore their graphic representations must be constantly ‘adapted’ to those changes too.
Classic cartography deals with the topographic aspects of the cities, without explaining what happens inside them, describing their elements, whereas recent technological [...]