Places and Spaces: Mapping Science Exhibit Engages Students via the Power of Maps
From August 29, 2019:
The Department of Geography and Anthropology and the College of Humanities and Social Sciences will host the Places & Spaces: Mapping Science exhibit from November 4-December 8, 2019, in the Social Sciences Building Atrium on the Kennesaw Campus, to coincide with national Geography Awareness Week. The Places & Spaces: Mapping Science exhibition showcases creative approaches to the visualization of science, social science, and humanities endeavors. Ranging from early maps showing the terrain of science, to maps showing the national mood through tweets over the course of a day, the exhibition touches on subject matter as diverse as hurricane tracks from a polar perspective, forecasting epidemics, and the geographic settings of Victorian poems.
Organized by the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center at Indiana University, Places & Spaces showcases outstanding examples of maps from around the globe and from diverse disciplines. Innovative and inspiring, these visualizations use data to tell stories and to point the way to promising new areas of research. Drawing from across cultures and across scholarly disciplines, Places & Spaces demonstrates the power of maps to address vital questions about the contours and content of human knowledge. Created by leading experts in the natural, physical, and social sciences, visual arts, and the humanities, the maps in Places & Spaces allow us to better grasp the abstract contexts, relationships, and dynamism of science and technology. Individually and as a whole, the maps of Places & Spaces allow data to tell stories which both the researcher and the layperson can understand and appreciate. The exhibit has been on display at over 375 venues in 28 countries on 6 continents. It showcases the work of 239 mapmakers that hail from 17 different countries…
…“The exhibit highlights the many ways in which geography, cartography, and geographic information science transcend the social sciences, humanities, and natural sciences,” observed Dr. Paul McDaniel, Assistant Professor of Geography, who is also helping with the exhibit logistics, “which speaks to the many jobs, career fields, and opportunities throughout all areas of society-locally, nationally, and globally-in which geographers and those with a geography and spatial science skills set contribute to addressing contemporary challenges.” McDaniel also noted that “it’s great for us to host the exhibit during national Geography Awareness Week in November, which encourages everyone to consider the significance of place and space and how we affect and are affected by it.”…
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Originally published at https://chss.kennesaw.edu on August 29, 2019.
