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Visualising the Smart City

15 March, 2016 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm SAST

The ACC is happy to announce the first brown bag event for 2016: Visualising the Smart City with Professor Gillian Rose.

Overview:

Digital technologies of various kinds are now the means through which many cities are made visible and their spatialities negotiated. From casual snaps shared on Instagram to elaborate photo-realistic visualisations, digital technologies for making, distributing and viewing cities are more and more pervasive. This talk will explore some of the implications of that digitisation for the cultural politics of representation. What and who is being made visible in these digitally mediated cities, and how? What forms of urban materiality, spatiality and sociality are pictured and performed? And how should that picturing be theorised? The talk will suggest that cities and their inhabitants are increasingly visualised through a mobile fluid ‘digital visuality’, which is in fact evident across a number of visual practices. It will also propose that critical accounts of such visuality should focus less on readings of images and more on considering the (geographically-specific) flows and frictions of images.

Bio:

Gillian Rose is Professor of Cultural Geography at The Open University, UK, and a Fellow of the British Academy. Her current research interests focus on contemporary digital visual culture, urban spatialities and visual research methodologies. Her most recent funded research (with Monica Degen) examined how architects work with digital visualising technologies in designing urban redevelopment projects, and she is extending this work into the digital mediation of urban spaces more broadly, particularly in the context of ‘smart cities’.

As well as a number of papers on images and ways of seeing in urban and domestic spaces, the fourth edition of her bestselling Visual Methodologies (Sage) will be published in March 2016.

Gillian blogs at visual/method/culture and tweets @ProfGillian.

Details

Date:
15 March, 2016
Time:
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm SAST

Venue

Seminar Room 1, EGS Building, Upper Campus, University of Cape Town
University of Cape Town
Cape Town , Western Cape South Africa
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