Clouds Are Water: Understanding Digital Landscapes

Clouds Are Water: Understanding Digital Landscapes

Sheryl-Ann Simpson
Department of Geography and Environmental Studies
Carleton University

Date: Friday, March 11, 2022
Time: 3-4pm
Location: Zoom
Meeting ID: 920 1911 8555
Passcode: SPEAKER

Thinking about the digital as a landscape helps to keep the spectrum of digital life in focus. The bits and bytes of data, apps and virtual worlds; the tools and sensors that we use to bring these virtual worlds on our travels or that capture our actions to convert into data; and the material places that power our virtual lives or that are increasingly governed though and by it.

This talk provides examples and ideas for thinking through the digital as a landscape through geospatial methods and methodologies ranging from youth-based participatory quantitative action research, thinking through sound space, and building understanding through visiting.

Dr. Sheryl-Ann Simpson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Carleton University. Her research focuses on state-community relationships through the lens of citizenship, immigration, landscape and environmental justice. She is also interested in the  methods and methodologies we use to make sense of our world, and the possibility for action in it. Her recent editorial work includes co-editing the special issue 'Planning Beyond Mass Incarceration' in the Journal of Planning Education and Research.


Part of the Department of Geography and Environment Speaker Series