What happens if you lock two creative people and three geographers in a pub, pour some statistics about their city over them and let their mind work out the rest? You could find out the result at this year’s Festival of the Mind of the University of Sheffield that went on for 10 days throughout Sheffield. Nick Bax and Daniel Fleetwood of Humanstudio were the two creative minds that teamed up with Carl Lee of Sheffield College and Danny Dorling & myself from the University of Sheffield to take a look at the impact of higher education on the city in a slightly unusual way. The result of this collaboration is the short film ‘A City in Context‘ viewed during the festival and now available online. Continue reading
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Geovisualisation of flows
This is some material from my first year of PhD-research in the Worldmapper project (funded by the Leverhulme Trust):
“Geovisualisation of flows: Finding new approaches to map an interdependent world” – Poster display at the RGS Annual Conference in Manchester, 26-28 August 2009
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Slides of my postgraduate presentation at the Department of Geography, University of Sheffield, 26 May 2009 (also accessible on Slideshare):
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