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Urban lore sometimes get arrogant on The City, the Big Apple of our eye. I mean, we are the Center of the Universe of course and if you can make it here you can make it anywhere. We're not only the nation's melting pot but also "the casserole, the chafing dish and the charcoal grill.. The praises and nicknames for our city streets can go on and on BUT heres the thing we are not alone. The inspiration on our streets, the world we create, the people who come here bring other city perspectives and passions into the mix. For this GeoNYC we honor the bridge between NYC and San Francisco. Two cities that are doing awesome and innovative work on the geospatial spectrum. Each of our guests have done location work in NYC but the original idea, perspective and impact began in San Francisco. From the history of our cities in old photographs, to an atlas of navigating the city, to a designer perspective that captures both, we humbly acknowledge that geo in NYC is not created on its own but in a continual dialogue with other centers of the universe.
SPEAKERS
Joshua Jelly-Schapiro [@jjellyschapiro] is a geographer and writer whose work has appeared in Harper's, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, and The Believer. Currently a visiting scholar at the Institute for Public Knowledge at NYU, he is the co-editor, with Rebecca Solnit, of Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas (forthcoming in 2016 from the University of California Press). Josh will offer a sneak-peak into the New York atlas, and describe the larger aims of a project devoted, through its belief in the unique power and beauty of paper maps, "to wrest our cartographic lives from the tyrannies of GPS."
Dan Vanderkam [@danvk] is a Brooklyn-based software developer. After a lengthy stint on Google web search ("when does the sun set?", "how many people live in France"), he's spent the past year working on genome visualizations at Mt. Sinai's HammerLab. Dan has always worked on a wide variety of side projects including OldSF, Comparea and now OldNYC, the newly-launched collaboration with NYPL Labs. Dan will talk about the story behind OldNYC: how it works, the technical challenges in building it and where it's going next.
Genevieve Hoffman [@geeveev]is an artist and technologist who leverages data as a narrative tool. Her work has been featured in publications like Fast Company, the Harvard Business Review, and Good Magazine, and has received a Webby Award and Emmy nomination. She's been in residence at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program, The School of Visual Arts and Autodesk's Pier 9 Workshop. She currently works at the Office for Creative Research. Genny will look at some of her previous projects that have addressed spatial data, and the ways that unconventional datasets can be visualized or described using space metaphorically.
OUR SCHEDULE
6:30PM: Mingle: doors, beer, pizza, dumplings! and people
7:00PM: Presentations & Q&A
8:30PM+: The after hours celebrations
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