Course Details

Critical-creative geovisualization is situated at the intersection of geography, arts, and the digital humanities, where we can generate more authentic and nuanced representations of people and space by adopting (and adapting) artistic and humanistic perspectives into mapping and visualization. This class provides students with the unique opportunity to participate in methodologies of mapping and utilizing Geographic Information Systems (GIS), approaching these traditions through critical inquiry and reflexivity as we attune ourselves to the broader social, political, and digital processes that influence the subjects being studied and visualized. We will consider what it means to present and imagine the world around us in an evolving digital/technological landscape; to do so, we’ll explore both the complexities of that landscape’s social, political, and political-economic structures as well as the possibilities it offers us to tell narratives about our communities. The class aims to foster an interdisciplinary attitude towards the ways we can question our experience of the hybridized world we live in through mapping, imagining, and sharing these creations with others.