7:30 pm – 9:00 pm

• Manish Shirgaokar, Ph.D., Spatial Information Transforming Lives
• Alicia Cowart, Ph.D., Mapping the Unmapped: Guerilla Cartography
• Esther Sullivan, Ph.D., Not ‘Just a trailer park:’ Living Spaces

Lives, Number, & Transformation: GIS Empowering All Peoples

This third webinar session intends to increase awareness as to how Geographic Information System Science, when employed at local levels, can bring community information together in ways that facilitate positive changes which can expand the political power paradigm. Skillful mapping of carefully collected and compiled data graphically illuminates people’s spatial connections and disparity-driven disconnections within a local community. This graphically expressed clarity makes fully visible the diverse stakeholders in each community.

Shirgaokar will discuss his work which endeavors to make transportation system resources more equitable. His work with statistical measures employs GIS tools to better everyone’s lot in their community. Cowart’s presentation will consider movements that bring cartography to a broader audience through increased community participation. Sullivan’s presentation examines the empowerment GIS can bring to communities that are traditionally marginalized such as those that rely on manufactured housing or mobile homes. The three of them provide attendees with a very brief introduction concerning the breadth of data required to gain a fleeting understanding of each community’s truths.

For more information about the series visit the FAST Lab website.