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Captial Improvement Evictions (1997-2019), San Francisco, Anti-Eviction Mapping Project

Join faculty, researchers, students and staff for a seminar with Erin McElroy, cofounder of the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project and postdoctoral researcher at New York University’s interdisciplinary AI Now Institute. Erin will discuss the work of the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project and their approaches to public mapping pedagogy. This conversation is as part of a year-long series of workshops on discourses of place and space and the use of digital mapping and Geographic Information Systems in the classroom, Digital Mapping Across Disciplines.

Pattern Discrimination Poster

Pattern Discrimination, Book Launch and Discussion Session with Clemens Apprich. March 15, 2019. How do “human” prejudices reemerge in algorithmic cultures allegedly devised to be blind to them? To answer this question, this book investigates a fundamental axiom in computer science: pattern discrimination. Join Dennis Yi Tenen and Laura Kurgan for an informal discussion session centered around the recent release of *Pattern Discrimination*(Minnesota UP) by Clemens Apprich, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Florian Cramer, and Hito Steyerl.

Working prototypes, courtesy of Jia Zhang and Brian House.

This event will feature new work by Mellon Associate Research Scholars Brian House & Jia Zhang completed as part of their fellowships with the Center for Spatial Research in the 2018-2019 academic year. The discussion of both projects will center around the politics of personal data and its relationship to the development of urban policy and the built environment. Their projects point to forms of artistic, academic, and activist practices that might intervene or offer new possibilities in this fraught landscape

Photo of Summer Workshop

A call for applications. Mapping for the Urban Humanities is a six day skills-building workshop in critical cartography, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. It is designed to expand the disciplinary locations within which spatial knowledge in the urban humanities is produced and interpreted. Workshop participants will learn key skills in mapping, data collection, and data visualization that they can incorporate into their research and teaching. Space is limited. Interested faculty and doctoral candidates are encouraged to apply by January 31, 2019.

Ways of Knowing Cities Meeting Photo

Come help us celebrate the start of our fourth year at the Center for Spatial Research!
Meet core researchers and students.
Learn about a new project and collaboration focused on mapping historical New York City.

Spaces of Exception Poster and Schedule

Spaces of Exception, conference presented by the Geographies of Injustice working group of the Center for the Study of Social Difference.

Palaces for the People Cover

Tuesday, November 27, 5:30pm. Book launch event with Eric Kleinenberg, Professor of Sociology, New York University. We are living in a time of deep divisions. Americans are sorting themselves along racial, religious, and cultural lines, leading to a level of polarization that the country hasn’t seen since the Civil War. Pundits and politicians are calling for us to come together, to find common purpose. But how, exactly, can this be done? In Palaces for the People, Eric Klinenberg suggests a way forward. He believes that the future of democratic societies rests not simply on shared values but on shared spaces: the libraries, childcare centers, bookstores, churches, synagogues, and parks where crucial, sometimes life-saving connections, are formed.