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With Ida Benedetto (Co-founder, Wanderlust Projects) & others.
Mon, Oct 20, 2014 @ 06:30 PM   FREE   CartoDB, 143 Roebling St, #2
 
     
 
 
              

  
 
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This month's geonyc looks at mapping things that aren't always easy to see. New York City is full of hidden networks, lost histories, and obscured information--how do we find these things, and how do we make them visible? What happens when we make them visible?Our speakers have spent a lot of time exploring the hard-to-see stories of NYC and will share their process and lessons learned.


Also, HALLOWEEN IS COMING. Plan for a haunted housewarming for our sponsors at CartoDB as they break in their new digs. And, the tea leaves suggest we may or may not be visited by spooky guests. Bring sigils, perhaps come dressed as your favorite projection.

OUR SPEAKERS

Ida C. Benedetto (@idamantium) is co-founder of Wanderlust Projects. Wanderlust makes experiences in places you arent supposed to be, with a focus on the transformative power of intimacy, transgression, location, and generosity. Wanderlust has been profiled in Fast Company, O Globo, NPR, and The Daily Beast. Ida will talk about Wanderlust's adventure in the now demolished Domino Sugar Refinery.

Aaron Reiss (@erinreiss) is a journalist and mapmaker based in Chinatown, NYC. His work has been featured in novels, academic papers and publications like The New Yorker, The Atlantic's CityLab, and more. Find his work at yellowmountainmaps.com and on twitter. Aaron will be presenting on his work documenting New York's Shadow Transit system--an informal van network that services NYC's most geographically isolated neighborhoods.

Allison C. Meier(@AllisonCMeier)(http://www.allisoncmeier.com) is a writer on overlooked history and visual culture. Based in Brooklyn, she works as a staff writer atHyperallergic, a senior editor atAtlas Obscura, and has contributed to theNew York Times,GOODmagazine, Narratively, Artinfo, Artnews, and other publications. Since 2010, she's given tours of cemeteries in the New York City area to explore how they relate to the city's contemporary life, and its forgotten history. Allison will talk about lessons learned from her work leading cemetery tours.While we think of New York as a place for the living, the dead that have come before us and are now interred beneath our urban landscape have an overlooked impact on the design of the city.

Mike Ernst
Mike Ernst (@mernst_nyc)is an urban planner with theMunicipal Art Society(MAS), a 120-year-old research and advocacy group dedicated to creating a more livable city. Mike has worked as a planning and design consultant on a wide variety of projects in New York, the SF Bay Area and elsewhere. He has taught courses on urban planning with IHPsCities in the 21st Centuryprogram and at theBloustein Schoolat Rutgers University. Mike will be presenting MAS'sAccidental Skylinemaps, which show available development rights in New York City.

OUR SCHEDULE

6:30PM: The Mingle: doors, beer, pizza, people, etc
7:00PM: The Wonder: presentations followed by Q&A
8:30PM+: The celebrations.






(We changed this month's meetup date to the 20th to avoid any bank holiday long weekend folks on the 13th)

 
 
 
 
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