Mapping For Architecture Urbanism and Humanities

What role does cartography play in our relationship to space? How does technology make sense of places to which we have never been? Through what material practices are data produced, and how are they located? As a result, what cultural attitudes inhabit our maps, how do they (re)produce our environment, and how can they be contested? This course provides an introduction to critical mapping discourse and geographic information systems tools and examines both historical and contemporary questions with reference to the technology of mapping through the use of open-source GIS software (QGIS), browser-based technologies (Mapbox, Mongo DB).