Working in two courses and a special humanities lab course, a team of students and faculty will collaborate to co-produce a 3D digital model of San Francisco's changing urban landscape. The model will be developed from new research of historical documents, archival photographs, demographic datasets, property records, oral histories, and vintage maps. The research team will then build the model using ArcGIS software in Miami's Geospatial Analysis Center (GAC).
The resulting model, "The San Francisco Waterfront Through Time," will faithfully render, visually explore, and interpret the dwelling spaces, working conditions, and social lives of a diverse array of people who moved across and along the threshold of this vital port city during the 20th Century. Students will study recent scholarship on cartographic design as visual storytelling with two professors working actively in this emerging field. They will also gain significant hands-on experience in historical methods, spatial reasoning, geospatial datasets, and mapping software. The special two-credit lab course, students will be team-taught so that faculty and students can explore innovative strategies for designing, organizing, rendering, storing, editing, and publishing a public-facing, spatial storytelling project.
https://humanitiescenter.miamioh.edu/faculty-programs/writing-for-the-public
