Bespoke, artisanal, hand-crafted cartography (and beer)

Welcome back from your summer travels and "side project time" (Don't worry, we got nothing done on ours, either).

This GeoNYC is all about 'craft'. It might be hard, in 2016, to think of 'craft' outside the context of beer. Craft beer is wonderful – but the word has other uses, apparently.

Craft means a lot of things, but primarily it refers to 'skill'. It is the skilled, adept work in almost any medium (woodworking, sailing, cartography, beer) that shows strength in ability and attention to detail. Craft in mapping is a great thing, and with digital becoming the default mapping mode, it would behoove us to turn an eye to well-made maps and mapping experiences.

This month we will hear from some high-craft designers who put a lot of effort into the execution of their mapping-based projects – keeping the standards as high as they should be.

SPEAKERS

Ellie Irons [@eirons (https://twitter.com/eirons)] is an artist and educator based in Brooklyn, NY. She works in a variety of media, from walks to WIFI to gardening in order to reveal how human and nonhuman lives intertwine with other earth systems. Recently she has been an artist in residence at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, the Institute for Electronic Arts and the SVA Nature and Tech Lab. Her work has been part of several recent group exhibitions exploring contemporary environmental issues, including Social Ecologies, Emergent Ecologies, the Biennial for Neglected Lifeforms and the ongoing Chance Ecologies project.

Hanbyul Jo [@hanbyul_here (https://twitter.com/hanbyul_here)] is an engineer who found herself in mapping world after long fiddling with creative uses of technology. She writes code for maps that live both on and off of screens. She currently works as a front-end engineer at Mapzen in New York. Hanbyul lives in Brooklyn, but there is a special place for Seoul in her heart. She will be speaking about the craft of giving taking digital maps real life in the transformation of the vector tiles for digital fabrication.

Daniel Goddemeyer [ http://Subspotting.com ] [@dgoddemeyer (https://twitter.com/dgoddemeyer)]is a researcher and designer who explores new relationships with technology through research, experiments and product applications. He is the founder of OFFC, a New York City based research and design practice that works with global brands, research institutions and start-ups to transform emerging technologies into new product applications. With his own research and his MFA class Urban Fictions at the School of Visual Arts he explores how the increasing proliferation of these technologies in our everyday lives will impact and change our future interactions.

OUR SCHEDULE
6:30PM: Mingle: doors, beer, pizza, dumplings! and people
7:00PM: Presentations & Q&A
8:30PM+: The after hours celebrations