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Digitally annotated medieval city view. Image credit: Edward Triplett
Digitally annotated medieval city view. Image credit: Edward Triplett

Visualizing Cities: Representing Urban Landscapes, Cultures, and Environments

Instructor(s): Victoria Szabo, Edward Triplett

Exploring digital and visual representation of landscapes, structures, environments, history, culture, architecture, events, and populations. Change over time, cultural heritage, possible futures, and alternate pasts from historical, cultural, documentary, and scientific evidence. Idea of city as a conceptual category and metaphor. Ubiquitous computing in urban environments/medium for interaction. Global cities and diaspora. Visual imager and written accounts. Use of mapping, imaging, 3D, augmented reality, games. The graduate version includes both the final digital project and a theoretically-informed graduate seminar paper. Topics and historical foci vary.

Course Code(s): ISS 780, CMAC 780 , HISTORY 779, ARTHIST 780

Curriculum Code(s): ALP

Day(s) & Times(s): MW 12:00pm - 1:15pm

Location: Smith Warehouse, Bay 11 A233 (Digital Art History & Visual Culture Research Lab)