Event: Digital Sketches: Creating Qualitative, Humanistic Maps & Visualizations in Inkscape


Date & Time

May 12, 2022 - 10:00am to 1:00pm
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Contact Information

Alba Menéndez Pereda & Rachel Schloss
albamenendez@ucla.edu & rachelschloss@g.ucla.edu

Location

Fowler A163 (Digital Archaeology Lab)

Event Type

Workshop

Event Details

Jeremy Mikecz
Neukom Institude Postdoctoral Fellow
Native American Studies, Darmouth University

In-person, Digital Archaeology Lab, Fowler A163
Thursday May 12th, 2022 from 10am-1pm PT

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Data visualizations and mapping carry with them some baggage. Graphs lie. Maps hide. Politicians, corporations, and others use them to persuade (at best), or deceive or divide (at worst). However, just as the earliest maps were simply tools intended to help us locate our place in the world, qualitative, humanistic visualization allows us to more systematically interrogate historical narratives, construct alternative narratives, and compare the difference between the two. In this hands-on workshop, Dr. Jeremy Mikecz introduces participants to inspiring examples of visualizations that reveal rather than conceal human stories. He also offers a tutorial demonstrating simple methods for producing similar visualizations in the free, open-source program Inkscape. Participants will have the opportunity to create their own qualitative, humanistic, or narrative visualization by the end of the workshop.

Sponsored by the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology and UCLA Latin American Institute