EUROPEAN UNION DATA VIZ, LUXEMBOURG

COMMUNICATING COMPLEX ECONOMIC TOPICS

Description: “Is it possible to merge economic and policy research with best practices from information design, software development, data science, product management, and digital humanities? At Harvard’s Growth Lab, we believe that data visualization can be a vital channel to effectively interpret and analyze complex concepts. Join Nil Tuzcu to learn more about how we work to understand the dynamics of growth and to translate those insights into more effective digital policymaking tools.”

SALT RESEARCH GRANT LECTURES, ISTANBUL TURKEY

I AM ISTANBUL, MULTIMEDIA STORYTELLING PLATFORM

Description: 'I am Istanbul' is an interactive web-based storytelling platform, pulling the curtains back and inviting viewers to observe the ever changing flow of daily life in Istanbul throughout the 20th century via the lives of fictional characters. The characters can be tracked on the historical city maps, enriched by historic urban archives, where the stories offer viewers a unique experience to witness the last century’s crucial social, political, economical and physical transformations in the city.

NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY GIS DAY 2018, BOSTON, MA

SPATIAL STORYTELLING IN URBAN STUDIES AND HISTORY

Description: Spatial storytelling enables multifaceted inquires in digital humanities and urban research, where complex and multilayered information is processed and presented with the help of spatial and visual technologies. Consequently, new topics such as embodied perception, user experience and interaction, and digital reconstruction are adopted and repurposed in this emerging field. In this talk, I will introduce three projects each taking a different approach to spatial storytelling and offer a comparative evaluation of their methodologies. The first project, Istanbul Urban Database, is an interactive mapping platform composed of digitized historical urban archives of Istanbul allowing users to explore spatio-temporal layers of Istanbul. The second project, I am Istanbul, is web-based storytelling platform in which users observe the flow of daily life in Istanbul throughout the 20th century via the lives of fictional characters. The final project, September 1955, is a virtual-reality documentary re-enacting the Istanbul Pogrom of 1955.

MARMARA URBAN FORUM ISTANBUL, TURKEY

DIGITAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR CULTURAL HERITAGE

DUKE UNIVERSITY HISTORY DEPARTMENT DURHAM, NC

ISTANBUL URBAN DATABASE AND FUTURE PLANS

Event Description: The innovative workshop organized by the Archives of Asia, Africa, and the Mediterranean program at the History Department, Duke University, brings together leading historians and scholars of the modern Middle East with experts in visualization technology. The main focus is visualizing urban development of Istanbul and Cairo in a comparative angle. We propose to compare methods of digital humanities concerning visualizing temporal change in (becoming) metropolises, for educational and scholarly purposes. At the intersection of history, economics, urban studies, and digital humanities, the workshop fills a crucial gap in scholarship about urbanization in the Middle East and contribute to the study of the transition from imperial cities to nation-state metropolises.

KOC UNIVERSITY INTERNATIONAL ANAMED ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM, ISTANBUL TURKEY

THE MAKING OF THE ISTANBUL URBAN DATABASE

Event Description: The intent of ANAMED’s 2017 Annual Symposium is to bring together researchers engaged in creating and using spatialized data resources for research and web-based data presentation and sharing. The symposium aims not only to showcase projects that incorporate Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and other analytical tools in spatially-significant research into the past, but rather to focus on projects that have engaged or will soon engage in spatializing collections of data for interactive web-mapping applications for researchers and the public, alike.