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Keck Digital Cultural Mapping Program Launched
The primary objective of the Keck DCMP is to develop an interdisciplinary undergraduate curriculum in the emergent field of Digital Cultural Mapping. By bringing traditional methods of humanistic inquiry together with geo-temporal argumentation and the analytic tools of Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Digital Cultural Mapping teaches students to use new technologies to investigate and map a wide-range of cultural, historical, and social dynamics. The undergraduate curriculum in digital cultural mapping represents the next phase of development for Digital Humanities at UCLA, a field that has pioneered creative ways of weaving together the tradition of a critical, broad-based liberal arts education with the challenges and possibilities presented by new technologies.
Experiential Research
The ETC promotes the use of new technologies for experiential research in diverse disciplines including architecture, the performing arts, classics, archaeology, foreign language studies, and education, among others. Projects at the center explore a wide range of phenomenological issues, including movement, sequencing, sonification, and visualization. With past grants, the ETC team has distinguished itself in the spatial modeling of comprehensive environments, from natural and artificial landscapes, urban environments and other material culture, to the scientific visualization of surfaces and data. Comprehensive simulations of historical environments allow scholars to study various reconstruction issues and provide new spatial gateways into research and teaching about the broader cultural, social, economic, and political aspects of civilizations – both ancient and contemporary.
A focus on experiential historical architectural research distinguishes the ETC from other digital media centers by expanding upon current scholarly investigations and technology investments in virtual reality (VR) and sonification.
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FEATURED PROJECT:
HyperCities
Hypercities is a revolutionary aggregation platform built out of and on top of real cities: it augments the space and time of the physical world with the information web and renders the experience of the World Wide Web geographic and temporal.
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