Schedule

1/10: Introduction

1/17: Mapping I | Map Design

• J. B. Harley, “Deconstructing the Map”
• Barbara Mundy, “Mapping the Aztec Capital: The 1524 Nuremberg Map of Tenochtitlan, Its Sources and Meanings”
• Shannon Mattern, Gaps in the Map: Why We’re Mapping Everything

1/24: Mapping II | Data Visualization

• Alberto Cairo, The Functional Art (Introduction, Ch. 1, Ch. 2)
• Anne Kelly Knowles, Levi Westerveld, and Laura Strom, “Inductive Visualization: A Humanistic Alternative to GIS”
• Andrew Wiseman, “When Maps Lie”

1/31: Space I | Geospatial Analysis

• Doreen Massey, For Space, pp. 1-30.
• George Chauncey, Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 (Chapter 1, 7, 8)

Discussion leaders: Kara & Megan W.

2/7: Space II | Spatial Arguments

• Henri Lefebvre, The Production of Space (selections)
• Lauren Benton, A Search for Sovereignty: Law and Geography in European Empires, 1400-1900 (First read Chapter 1: Anomalies of Empire, then choose ONE of Chapters 2, 3, 4, or 5 to read)

Discussion leaders: Molly & Jeff

2/14: Place I | 3D Modeling

• Tim Cresswell, Place: A Short Introduction (Chapter 1: Defining Place, Chapter 2: The Genealogy of Place)
• Yi-Fu Tuan, Space and Place (Chapter 1: Introduction, Chapter 2: Experiential Perspective, Chapter 5: Spaciousness and Crowding)

Discussion leaders: Caroline & Colleen

2/21: Place II | Gaming/Virtual Reality

• Download and play Walden, A Game for a minimum of four hours.

Discussion leader: Lauren

2/28: Mid-Semester Review and Project Workshop

• Justin O’Beirne, “Google Maps’s Moat”

3/7: No Class (Spring Break)

3/14: National Space | Spatial Data

• James Scott, Seeing like a State (Introduction, Ch. 1: Nature and Space, Ch. 4: The High Modernist City: An Experiment and a Critique)
• Thongchai Winichakul, Siam Mapped (Preface, Ch. 6: Mapping: A New Technology of Space)

Discussion leaders: Katie & Lourdes

3/21: Race and Space | Online Exhibits

• Rashad Shabazz, Spatializing Blackness: Architectures of Confinement and Black Masculinity in Chicago (Preface, Ch. 3: Carceral Interstice Between Home Space and Prison Space)
• Robert Weyeneth, “The Architecture of Racial Segregation: The Challenges of Preserving the Problematical Past”

Discussion leaders: Megan B. & Danay

3/28: Urban Space | Walking Tour: Boston Black Heritage Trail

• Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life (Ch. 7: Walking in the City)

Reminder: Meet at Cameron’s apartment at 5PM

4/4: Landscapes | Augmented Reality

• Anne Spirn, The Language of Landscape (selections)
• Teri Rueb and Ernst Karel, “Fens” sound installation. Download the app and tour the installation at Back Bay Fens before class.

Discussion leader: Brittany

4/11: Project Workshop

4/18: Presentations and Reflections