Laura Kurgan

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Professor, GSAPP Columbia University. Director Center for Spatial Research and MS in Computational Design Practices @GSAPP. Interested in architecture, art, cities, data, environments, globes, justice(all kinds), maps, representation, visualization, your regular eclectic.
Websitehttps://c4sr.columbia.edu/
twitter@laurakurgan
Websitehttps://www.arch.columbia.edu/programs/15-m-s-computational-design-practices
What is Cartography?

'Every generation of Apple devices does more parts-pairing than the previous one, and the current models are so infested with paired parts as to be effectively unrepairable, except by Apple. It's so bad that iFixit has dropped its repairability score for the iPhone 14 from a 7 ("recommend") to a 4 (do not recommend)'

https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/22/vin-locking/#thought-differently

Pluralistic: Apple fucked us on right to repair (again) (22 Sept 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Come and join our amazing team to expand our mapping of Historical New York: https://mappinghny.com

We have a Research Associate Position available starting as early as July.

Apply here: https://academic.careers.columbia.edu/#!/115365

Mapping Historical New York

The @internetarchive is facing a major lawsuit: big publishers are suing the organization for lending out digital copies of books.
This is a case that will determine how libraries can operate in the future. Either there will be a book rental model in the digital sphere - one that has worked successfully, in the public interest, for centuries. Or it will be replaced by commercial control of books (with privacy and censorship risks).
So it is time to stand up and support the Internet Archive:
https://www.battleforlibraries.com
(Even if – like me – you are not in the US. This is a global issue)
Battle for Libraries

Don’t let libraries die. As the future goes digital, major publishers are suing to cut off libraries’ defense of digital books from censorship. It’s time to fight back.

Fight for the Future
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/03/11/upshot/office-conversions.html A really great article explaining why office building can’t transform easily into affordable housing. @emilybadger @nytimes
Here’s How to Solve a 25-Story Rubik’s Cube

Cities are eager to turn office buildings into housing amid rising remote work. But that's harder than you might think.

The New York Times
My mom told me that when it is especially stormy, she puts the kettle on and fills a thermos with hot water so she knows she can still have tea if the power goes out.
sts mastodon

A list of STS accounts in the Fediverse

For the latest episode of the Data Journalism Podcast Simon and I talked to Scientific Americans Jen Christiansen: https://anchor.fm/ddjpodcast Jen has recently published a wonderful book, 'Building Science Graphics' (full disclosure, I edited it) https://www.buildingsciencegraphics.com/ #dataviz #infographics #datavisualization
The Data Journalism Podcast ‱ A podcast on Anchor

Hosts Alberto Cairo and Simon Rogers will explore the latest in data journalism. You will meet the world’s top data journalists - and you will find out how they do what they do. Subscribe to see how data is changing the world of journalism forever.

Anchor

In January 2023, I led an Elective course HTML Zine Club in Willem de Kooning Academy.
In the link below, you'll be able to see students' works (outcome) and html/css instructions that I've made (in next pages from the archive).

https://htmlzineclub.usersentimentalexperience.net/htmlzineclub/

I aimed to give them insights and the joy of hand-crafted webpage as a digital publication (HTML&CSS based).

Memebers' works in HTML Zine Club 2023 Jan

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