San Jose, Costa Rica, May 22 2018
United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2014). World Urbanization Prospects: The 2014 Revision.
Literature Review
Fieldwork
Framework for Mapping the Vernacular
Interdisciplinary solutions to wicked problems
- Geography and participatory mapping
- Architecture and Vernacular Architecture
- Library and Information Science and Indigenous Data Governance
Participatory Mapping
"It is an odd concept to attribute to a piece of software the potential to enhance or limit public participation in policymaking, empower or marginalize community members to improve their lives, counter or enable agendas of the powerful, and advance or diminish democratic principles. However, that is exactly what has happened with geographic information systems (GIS) ..." (Sieber 2006: 491)
Sieber, R. (2006). Public Participation Geographic Information Systems: A Literature Review and Framework. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 96(3), 491-507. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8306.2006.00702.x
Vernacular Architecture
Indigenous Data Governance
We are currently, as a globalizing presence, seeking to preserve many kinds of diversity—linguistic, cultural, ethnic, and genetic, to name but a few. And yet that preservation has its price; ethnic and linguistic diversity can best be maintained by sequestration, which is good for the connoisseur of the diverse but not necessarily for the diverse themselves. Databases are often seen as a good site for preservation without politics: from the Mayan cultural atlas (Toledo Maya Cultural Council, 1997) through the efflorescence of museums of indigenous knowledge. Really listening to other ways of knowing entails more than just databasing. After all, indigenous knowledge tends to end up in text fields in scientific databases: collocated with the real data but unmanipulable and hence unusable. How should we record and remember other ways of knowing?” (pp. 218-219)
Bowker, Geoffrey C. (2005). Memory Practices in the Sciences. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press. pp 218-219.
Fieldwork and Method
- Computer Science and Drone Surveys
- Geography and participatory mapping
- Architecture and Vernacular Architecture
AERIAL SURVEY
3D MODEL
ORTHOPHOTO
Social Cartography?
Student work informed by local experience
Interdisciplinary Crossover
After rights, then what?
Acknowledgements:
We are grateful to the people of Las Flores Colombia, Santa Cruz de Islote Colombia, Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic), and Harbor Island (Bahamas) for letting us into their lives and collaborating with the work under way. Without the generous support from the University of Miami School of Architecture, the University of Miami Center for Computational Science, the University of Miami Libraries, and la Fundacion Tecnoglass none of this work would be possible.
Collaborators:
Carrie Penabad, Adib Cure, Chris Mader, Timothy Norris, Amin Sarafraz, Bernardo Rieveling, Qiazi Chen, Marissa Gudiel, Cristina Posada, Maria Esther Correa Vasquez, Edinson Borja, Nicanor Florez, Dimas Caraballo, Edilsa Ebrat
Thanks
Tim Norris - tnorris@miami.edu
Chris Mader - cmader@med.miami.edu