Space, place and people-oriented technologies and challenges of digital humanities.

Dr Chris McDowall

This free mini-symposium of talks from leading UK NZ and Australian experts will explore recent developments and intriguing challenges in spatial and platial design involving aspects of both culture and technology.

10:10 Dr Stuart Dunn, Head of The Department of Digital Humanities King’s College London, UK. Finding ourselves from Ptolemy to GPS: creating, exploring and communicating personal cartographies with technology

10:50 Dr. Juan Hiriart, Senior Lecturer in Interactive Media Art and Design, Salford University, Manchester, UK. People and Things: Representing Past Societies and Material Cultures in Game-form.

11:30 Dr Chris McDowall, Freelance Cartographer, New Zealand. Looking up from the map: We Are Here: An Atlas of Aotearoa.

12:10 tea/coffee break provided b Kirribilli (funded by the Curtin Institute for Computation).

12:30 Ms Nat Raisbeck-Brown, Experimental Spatial Scientist, Indigenous Ecological Knowledge Project, Atlas of Living Australia, CSIRO, Perth. Linking Indigenous to Western science knowledge through the Atlas of Living Australia.

12:50 Professor Erik Champion, UNESCO Chair of Cultural Heritage and Visualisation, Curtin University.

We will attempt to finish by 13.10.

We are grateful to the Curtin Institute for Computation for funding this event and the related research project.