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From: Shipp, Kayla <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, Feb 2, 2023 at 10:24 AM
Subject: [DHSI] Feb 14 | VIRTUAL TALK | Yanni Loukissas on “Youth Advocacy
Through Civic Mapmaking”
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>

*The Yale Digital Humanities Lab is thrilled to host Yanni Loukissas for a
virtual keynote** on “Youth Advocacy Through Civic Mapmaking”* *at 1:00
p.m. EST **on February 14*th as part of this year’s International Love Data
Week! Please register through Eventbrite
(https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-talk-youth-advocacy-through-civic-mapmaking-tickets-526749169947)*
to
attend and see below for more details.*

In this online presentation, Yanni Loukissas will share the arc of his
research over the past ten years to rethink what data can mean for civic
life, culminating in recent work on civic mapmaking tools for youth
advocacy.

Dr. Loukissas spent the last year working with colleagues at Georgia Tech,
Savannah State, and the City of Savannah to develop a toolkit that can
support youth advocacy through civic mapmaking. In the context of our
data-driven society, this toolkit is not what you might expect. It relies
on paint pens, drawing paper, and conversation prompts, which are meant to
help kids reflect on the uneven social and economic effects of disasters.
These analog tools are given digital precision by Map Spot, an open-source
software and hardware system that they made to guide collaborative
mapmaking.

Today, kids are often left out of civic life. They have few tools for
advocating on behalf of the places they live. What might the tools for
youth advocacy look like? This past fall, in a middle-school on the West
side of Savannah, Georgia, kids stayed after class two days a week to
explore this question. They shared family stories about the environmental
disasters they have lived through: hurricanes, heat waves, industrial
accidents, and of course the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. They learned about
existing sources of data they might use, such as sea level sensors,
historical maps, and census records, along with the underlying assumptions
and biases those sources carry. Then, they began to draw the stories and
data together. They created their own advocacy maps, thirty-six square feet
in size, and presented them to local policymakers. Their maps had the power
to express how they see the environmental threats to their communities and
suggest imaginative ways of mitigating them.

This event has been co-sponsored by the Digital Humanities Lab and the
Cushing/Whitney
Medical Library.

*Yanni Alexander Loukissas is Associate Professor of Digital Media in the
School of Literature, Media, and Communication at Georgia Tech. His
research is focused on helping creative people think critically about the
social implications of information technologies. His most recent book, All
Data Are Local: Thinking Critically in a Data-Driven Society (MIT Press,
2019), is addressed to a growing audience of practitioners who want to work
with unfamiliar data sources both effectively and ethically. He is also the
author of Co-Designers: Cultures of Computer Simulation in Architecture
(Routledge, 2012) and co-editor of The DigitalSTS Handbook (Princeton,
2019). Originally trained as an architect at Cornell, he subsequently
attended MIT, where he completed a PhD in Design and Computation and a
postdoc at the Program in Science, Technology and Society.*

*Kayla Shipp*

Digital Humanities Program Manager

Franke Family Digital Humanities Lab

Yale Library

203.436.1003 | [email protected]
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———- Forwarded message ———
From: Shipp, Kayla <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, Feb 2, 2023 at 10:24 AM
Subject: [DHSI] Feb 14 | VIRTUAL TALK | Yanni Loukissas on “Youth Advocacy
Through Civic Mapmaking”
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>

*The Yale Digital Humanities Lab is thrilled to host Yanni Loukissas for a
virtual keynote** on “Youth Advocacy Through Civic Mapmaking”* *at 1:00
p.m. EST **on February 14*th as part of this year’s International Love Data
Week! Please register through Eventbrite
(https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-talk-youth-advocacy-through-civic-mapmaking-tickets-526749169947)*
to
attend and see below for more details.*

In this online presentation, Yanni Loukissas will share the arc of his
research over the past ten years to rethink what data can mean for civic
life, culminating in recent work on civic mapmaking tools for youth
advocacy.

Dr. Loukissas spent the last year working with colleagues at Georgia Tech,
Savannah State, and the City of Savannah to develop a toolkit that can
support youth advocacy through civic mapmaking. In the context of our
data-driven society, this toolkit is not what you might expect. It relies
on paint pens, drawing paper, and conversation prompts, which are meant to
help kids reflect on the uneven social and economic effects of disasters.
These analog tools are given digital precision by Map Spot, an open-source
software and hardware system that they made to guide collaborative
mapmaking.

Today, kids are often left out of civic life. They have few tools for
advocating on behalf of the places they live. What might the tools for
youth advocacy look like? This past fall, in a middle-school on the West
side of Savannah, Georgia, kids stayed after class two days a week to
explore this question. They shared family stories about the environmental
disasters they have lived through: hurricanes, heat waves, industrial
accidents, and of course the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. They learned about
existing sources of data they might use, such as sea level sensors,
historical maps, and census records, along with the underlying assumptions
and biases those sources carry. Then, they began to draw the stories and
data together. They created their own advocacy maps, thirty-six square feet
in size, and presented them to local policymakers. Their maps had the power
to express how they see the environmental threats to their communities and
suggest imaginative ways of mitigating them.

This event has been co-sponsored by the Digital Humanities Lab and the
Cushing/Whitney
Medical Library.

*Yanni Alexander Loukissas is Associate Professor of Digital Media in the
School of Literature, Media, and Communication at Georgia Tech. His
research is focused on helping creative people think critically about the
social implications of information technologies. His most recent book, All
Data Are Local: Thinking Critically in a Data-Driven Society (MIT Press,
2019), is addressed to a growing audience of practitioners who want to work
with unfamiliar data sources both effectively and ethically. He is also the
author of Co-Designers: Cultures of Computer Simulation in Architecture
(Routledge, 2012) and co-editor of The DigitalSTS Handbook (Princeton,
2019). Originally trained as an architect at Cornell, he subsequently
attended MIT, where he completed a PhD in Design and Computation and a
postdoc at the Program in Science, Technology and Society.*

*Kayla Shipp*

Digital Humanities Program Manager

Franke Family Digital Humanities Lab

Yale Library

203.436.1003 | [email protected]
_______________________________________________
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