Here‘s an interesting article about a new way to map and re-discovery the ancient world through the technologies. For a quarter of a century, two archaeologists and their team slogged through wild tropical vegetation to investigate and map the remains of one of the largest Maya cities, in Central America. Slow, sweaty hacking with machetes [...]

The MigMap is produced by k3000 collective in collaboration with the Transit Migration project, in which researchers, media-makers, activists and artists conduct research on new border regimes in Europe. MigMap is a multi-layered, online visualization of the many complex processes, places and actors that play a role in the current dynamics of migration and the [...]

This is a very interesting set of projects done some years ago by Dietmar Offenhuber:  subjective geographies in which the city is analysed through some particular point of views: 5 minutes places, Los Angeles in relative space, Loopcity . http://web.media.mit.edu/~dietmar/MappingContext/ “We usually consider space as being structured by absolute units. A meter is considered to have [...]

An interesting video about digital cartography. http://www.dynamicmediainstitute.org/node/168

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]