Mar 21 • 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Seminar on Research, Leadership, and Innovation 2019: Technology and the Making and Re-Making of Cities

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J. Cephas is a designer and historian who studies the interactions between people, places, and technologies. She is especially interested in the effects of large socio-economic forces on cities, how technology and technical thinking mediate the encounters between people and places, and how labor practices interface with the totalizing effects of architecture. Her critical work focuses on questions such as the way twentieth-century technologies that intertwined mass production and mass consumption had dramatic spatial and social consequences for the layout and life of cities, particularly Detroit. Another recent project traces the ways in which black labor served to reinforce racialized landscape production in Georgia. Professor Cephas is also the founding director of Studio Plat, a geospatial research and development practice that examines the past, present, and future of cities. Studio Plat develops digital projects exploring the potentials and possibilities of data humanism and how humanistic research in architecture and urbanism can further technological initiatives. Current Studio Plat projects include an interactive atlas of cities in history, an archive of urban open data sites, and a web application for conducting research in architectural and urban history.

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