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British High Commissioner to India Dominic Asquith speaking at the national conference on ‘Energy data: management, modelling and GIS mapping’ organised by NITI Aayog at India Habitat Centre in Delhi, Wednesday 10 August 2016.
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Idea Mapping or Mind Mapping Workshop in Saline, MI for Saline Leadership Institute. Participants share their Idea Maps.
Located in the North Slope, Alaska, Toolik Field Station serves as a research base for students, scholars and scientists. Summer day temperatures, which typically range in the mid 60s (F), and can stoop down to low 40s (F), allow for the study of melted tundra.
We were delighted to be commissioned by the City of Liverpool to devise a 30 minute Video Mapping Show as the visual climax to the cities celebrations to mark the historic visit of the three largest Liners in the prestigious Cunard fleet.
As part of the Cunard Lines 175th birthday celebrations and to mark the occasion for the City we created a show for over 80,000 visitors over the course of three nights.
Always looking to the future and confident of its past, the essence of Liverpool was boldly brought to life to celebrate the city and its historic links with the Cunard Line. Three iconic buildings along the Pier Head collectively referred to as the “Three Graces” were transformed into a video mapped canvas to perform “The Amazing Graces”
Featuring a Sea of Faces of the people that make up the rich cultural heritage of Liverpool along with scenes from Cunard’s vast history we devised and produced a 25 minute spectacle complete with a specially commissioned score by composer Pete M Wyer. The show was developed in consultation with the people of Liverpool with “Hope Street Ltd” carrying out local research and audience engagement.
We wanted to create a show with video mapping at its heart that was capable of reaching out into the audience. In order to advance the narrative and to spread the effect across the widest audience area we deployed waterscreens, Aerial Artists, Lasers, and Water Fountains throughout.
Cartographer Matt Dooley, professor of Geography and Geographic Information Science, creates gunpowder maps of rivers using a paper stencil, paper, plywood and gunpowder. When the gunpowder ignites, it leaves dramatic marks on the paper below.
photos by Kathy M Helgeson Research: Our Polluted Waterways: A Gunpowder Mapping Project
I found the podcast “Mapping” to be interesting to listen to because I’ve known about “This American Life” for a couple months through episodes on Netflix. I thought the episodes were very enlightening because they shed light on the unique lifestyles of American people that you might not ever hear about otherwise. This particular podcast relates to the overall theme of the show – to examine the unknown lifestyles of people in this country. In this case, people are replaced with the five senses.
I really liked the part where the narrator explained that the podcast intended to demonstrate how people have become desensitized to society, that we live throughout the day in a catatonic state and miss all the glorious details that are present in virtually everything. This reminded me of a topic I wrote about in a previous class that had to do with our increasing reliability on technology to communicate. We rely so heavily on texting, Facebook or blogging to express ourselves (ironically stated through a blog for class…hehe), and many people are choosing to hide behind a virtual alias instead of having an organic, face-to-face conversation with someone. This podcast is similar in that we are decreasing our interaction our surroundings; we’re not having as many face-to-face conversations with nature as we used to, so to speak. We’re missing out on little details that have the same level of importance as the big picture.
I loved the part about the electronic nose, as weird as it was to listen to. I think mapping the world based on smells would be a really cool way to teach about the diversity of world cultures, or to even explain history. The development of our country could be explained through smells that had to do with major events, like the smell of gunpowder from the American Revolution or explosives for mining in the nineteenth century.
I agree with the podcast’s message that people need to learn to pay better attention to their surroundings. It’s so easy to miss a beautiful moment by simply keeping your eyes forward. Stop and look around once in a while, and you may even find something new and wonderful about a familiar place.