Thoughts from critical visualisation of urban data

The BCD project recently hosted four visitors for two weeks to share their experiences on a variety of subjects related to visualisation. We held a public seminar on February 15th where each spoke about their research. We recorded their talks and hope to make them available with the permission of the speakers, but there were a couple of thematic arches that take the cross-platform visualisation experiences of our guests back to the topic of city

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Institute of Sustainable Urbanism Talks #05: Future Cities

Institute of Sustainable Urbanism Talks #05: Future Cities ISU International Conference, 14.11.2017 | Architekturpavillon at TU Braunschweig. Last month Dr Gareth Young attended and presented at the ISU international conference “ISU Talks #05: Future Cities”. The Future Cities conference took place at TU Braunschweig, Germany, on November 14th, and was hosted by the Institute for Sustainable Urbanism. The conference was created to explore the potential challenges that exist for contemporary urbanism in a world that

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Confessions of a Media Arts Scholar in an Urban Data Landscape

Dr. Jeneen Naji Department of Media Studies, Maynooth University   Collaborations are at the core of humanities-led research, and as such as a digital poet practitioner/researcher I threw myself willingly into a collaboration with Geographers to apply for and work on Building City Dashboards a Science Foundation Ireland €1.8 million funded research project. The increasing urbanisation and digitisation of the human experience has resulted in a) lots of cities b) lots of data about cities.

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Urban Data and Media Art Seminar: August 28th, 2017.

A seminar to explore existing and potential modes and methodologies of creative data visualisation both of and in the city. The Building City Dashboards Project is pleased to announce that it will be hosting its first research seminar: Urban Data and Media Art. The seminar will take place on the 28th of August, 2017, in Room 2.31, Iontas Building, North Campus, Maynooth University, Maynooth, Kildare. You are invited to register for attend the event (for free) on

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