Storytelling and Visualization: An Extended Survey

Throughout history, storytelling has been an effective way of conveying information and knowledge. In the field of visualization, storytelling is rapidly gaining momentum and evolving cutting-edge techniques that enhance understanding. Many communities have commented on the importance of storytelling in data visualization. Storytellers tend to be integrating complex visualizations into their narratives in growing numbers. In this paper, we present a survey of storytelling literature in visualization and present an overview of the common and important elements in storytelling visualization. We also describe the challenges in this field as well as a novel classification of the literature on storytelling in visualization. Our classification scheme highlights the open and unsolved problems in this field as well as the more mature storytelling sub-fields. The benefits offer a concise overview and a starting point into this rapidly evolving research trend and provide a deeper understanding of this topic

Ghosts of the Anthropocene : spectral accretions at the Port Arthur historic site

As a place of heritage, the Port Arthur Historic Site in Tasmania, Australia, provides a substantial representation of a colonial landscape. Principally associated with Australia’s convict history, the vestiges that are found there today take the form of extant buildings, shorelines, cemeteries, exercise yards and cells. Port Arthur is also thought to harbour less-tangible residues of its pasts in the form of ghostly apparitions and atmospheres. Indeed, it is often referred to as being one of the most haunted places in Australia. However, rather than focus on the supernatural traces of some of the deviant criminals once imprisoned there, this article will take a broader account of ‘ghosts’ to consider the interrelations between human and nonhumans in the Anthropocene. To do so, we look to the abiding, ‘haunting’ presence of ‘arboreal-others’ in order to re-enliven our understanding of Port Arthur’s pasts and reimagine their role in its present and future

Guidelines for typology definition of European physical assets for earthquake risk assessment

It is an essential step in urban earthquake risk assessment to compile inventory databases of elements at risk and to make a classification on the basis of pre-defined typology/taxonomy definitions. Typology definitions and the classification system should reflect the vulnerability characteristics of the systems at risk, e.g. buildings, lifeline networks, transportation infrastructures, etc., as well as of their sub-components in order to ensure a uniform interpretation of data and risk analyses results. In this report, a summary of literature review of existing classification systems and taxonomies of the European physical assets at risk is provided in Chapter 2. The identified main typologies and the classification of the systems and their sub-components, i.e. SYNER-G taxonomies, for Buildings, Utility Networks, Transportation Infrastructures and Critical Facilities are presented in Chapters 3, 4, 5 and 6, respectively.JRC.G.5-European laboratory for structural assessmen

Center for urban ecological dialectics at Mill Street: A living building in Geneva, New York

Protecting drinking water and emphasizing a need to understand historical watersheds benefits urban ecologies. Geneva, a City in New York State (USA) is to invest in its economic future - especially regarding water for greater public use. To this end, an educational and experiential center in Geneva shall inform the public of a creek’s valuable sub-sources and its own important municipal hydro-geological features. Focusing on the city’s Castle Creek topography, a comprehensive design is developed adjacent to the creek’s urban density combined with a goal towards preservation. Existing watershed education programs, socio-ecological connectivity, and public recreation are the stimuli informing ecological behavior around the creek as a means for better treatment of connected public stormwater systems within its parks, and public-use spaces. This thesis makes the recommendation for the case of opening up urban natural water-spaces (river daylighting) and establishing a center of ecological education, interpreting daylighting, for greater public dialogue between academic scientists and laymen. Considering all urban environments, a built center of excellence (Center for Urban Ecological Dialectics, or CUED) shall be developed to address these needs. Abstract (Spanish) Proteger el agua potable y enfatizar la necesidad de comprender las cuencas hidrográficas históricas beneficia a las ecologías urbanas. Ginebra, una ciudad del estado de Nueva York (EE. UU.) Invertirá en su futuro económico, especialmente en lo que respecta al agua para un mayor uso público. Con este fin, un centro educativo y experimental en Ginebra informará al público sobre las valiosas fuentes secundarias de un arroyo y sus propias características hidrogeológicas municipales importantes. Centrándose en la topografía de Castle Creek de la ciudad, se desarrolla un diseño integral adyacente a la densidad urbana del arroyo combinado con un objetivo hacia la preservación. Los programas educativos existentes sobre cuencas hidrográficas, la conectividad socioecológica y la recreación pública son los estímulos que informan el comportamiento ecológico alrededor del arroyo como un medio para un mejor tratamiento de los sistemas públicos de aguas pluviales conectados dentro de sus parques y espacios de uso público. Esta tesis hace la recomendación para el caso de abrir espacios naturales urbanos de agua (iluminación natural de los ríos) y establecer un centro de educación ecológica, interpretando la iluminación natural, para un mayor diálogo público entre científicos académicos y laicos. Teniendo en cuenta todos los entornos urbanos, se desarrollará un centro de excelencia construido (Centro de Dialéctica Ecológica Urbana, o CUED) para abordar estas necesidades

'Movement/ occurs at the split': Turning to Late Modernity in Edward Dorn's North Atlantic Turbine

This article is presented in two parts. The first is an interrogation of the specific spatial practice of 'A Theory of Truth', held in conversation with the thesis that Reitha Pattison sets out for Edward Dorn's early poetry. The specific interrogation of Dorn's linguistic and spatial practice in 'A Theory of Truth' presented here will be braced against certain aspects of Gunslinger (Dorn, 1968). Furthermore, exploring how Dorn's language manifests a particular political position with regard to the enclosure acts of late capitalism, this article brings to light some tensions in the poetic relationship between Dorn and Charles Olson, and brings forward the strength of William Carlos Williams' influence on Dorn's spatializing tactics. The works of Christopher Beach, Michael Davidson and Sherman Paul are essential to this study. In the second, longer part of this argument, the way that Dorn uses language to manifest experience rather than simply to represent space will be set out, allowing a clear analysis of the relationship between spatial process in phenomenal reality and spatial processes in the 'experienced or imagined' loci of Dorn's poem. This part of the article draws in particular on the ideas of Lytle Shaw, Ian Davidson and Justin Katko