This is my third blog post in a row beginning with the words ‘places available’. But in any event… and with apologies to those not in London / the Southeast of England, I’m pleased to advertise that some places are available on the next City Maps doctoral training workshop, funded by CHASE, which will take place on Thursday 30 May 2019 at Birkbeck’s main campus. This workshop is part of a series I am co-organising with my Birkbeck colleague Mari Paz Balibrea and Lawrence Webb at the University of Sussex.

Normally, places in these workshops are reserved for students funded by CHASE, or studying at a CHASE institution. But as the workshop nears we are pleased to now be able to make available a limited number of places for doctoral students studying at other institutions.

The workshop, with Shannon Mattern (The New School) and Rebecca Ross (Central Saint Martins), will be of interest for PhD students interested in cities and culture, as well as the forms, materialities and spatialities of media.

The description of the workshop is below. If you would like to participate, please send the following information to Mara Arts (m.arts.12@ucl.ac.uk) by no later than 17 May 2019:

Name

Email Address

Institution

Working thesis title

Summary of your doctoral research (400-500 words)

Dietary requirements

Other requirements

Mapping urban media infrastructures

In this workshop, Shannon Mattern (The New School) and Rebecca Ross (Central Saint Martins) will examine methods for exploring, excavating, observing, testing, and notating urban media infrastructures, broadly conceived – from historical traces of urban epigraphy to contemporary sensing technology, from traditional neighbourhood patois to pervasive personalized screens. The aim is to encompass the breadth of topics you are exploring in your doctoral research. And in devising observation techniques, we will consider how infrastructures make themselves known to us, or sense-able to us – or to other non-human urban denizens. We will ask how infrastructures are epistemological and affective apparatae, as well as how experimental cartographic methods might allow us to examine and imagine them differently.