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<h2><a href="index.html" >Workshop Organizers</a></h2>
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<span class="bio-name" id="">Laura Kurgan</span> is Professor of Architecture at the Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation at Columbia University, where she directs the <a href="https://www.arch.columbia.edu/programs/15-m-s-computational-design-practices">Master’s in Science in Computational Design Practices</a>, (MS_CDP) the <a href="http://c4sr.columbia.edu/">Center for Spatial Research</a>, (CSR) and coordinates the Visual Studies curriculum. She is the author of <i>Close Up at a Distance: Mapping, Technology, and Politics</i> (Zone Books, 2013), and Co-Editor of <i>Ways of Knowing Cities</i>(Columbia Books on Architecture, 2019). From 2004 through 2015, she founded and directed the Spatial Information Design Lab (SIDL) at GSAPP.
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Her work explores the ethics and politics of digital mapping and its technologies; the art, science and visualization of big and small data; and design environments for public engagement with maps and data. CSR work has been exhibited internationally, at the Chicago Architecture Biennial (2019), at the Biennale Architettura di Venezia 2018, in the Jerome L. Greene Science Center at Columbia’s Zuckerman Institute 2017, at the Istanbul Design Biennial 2016, at the Oslo Architecture Triennale 2016 and at Palais De Tokyo 2016. Kurgan’s work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and the Fondation Cartier in Paris. Her writings have been published widely, including articles in <i>e-Flux</i>, the Harvard Design Magazine, Grey Room, Volume, and Architectural Design.
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For her work as a designer, Kurgan was awarded a United States Artists Rockefeller Fellowship, in 2009, she was named a Game Changer by Metropolis in 2012, and was the William A. Bernoudy Architect in Residence at the American Academy in Rome in 2022. As Director of the Center for Spatial Research and the Spatial Information Design Lab, she has been Principal Investigator on research supported by the Open Society Foundations, the Ford Foundation, the Andrew W Mellon Foundation, and the Gardiner Foundation. Current topics of her research at CSR include justice mapping, conflict urbanism, spatial inequality, algorithms and social justice, and historical New York City.
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<span class="bio-name" id="">Adeline Chum</span> is Assistant Director of the <a href="">Center for Spatial Research</a>, where she leads multiple ongoing collaborative research projects ranging from mapping migration across African cities, the underfunding of poultry farms across the US, and the effects of liens and mortgages in the bail industry. She is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor at GSAPP in the MArch program for an Adv VI studio. Prior to joining CSR, She has worked in architecture firms in Toronto, New York, and London. She received her MArch from Columbia, GSAPP, where she has received the GSAPP Visualization Award, William Kinne Fellows Travelling Prize for her proposal, What it Takes to Grow Our Buildings: Consequences of Mass Timber Production on Forestry and Land Management in Sweden, and the 'Avery 6' Award.
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<h2><a href="schedule.html#panel1" >Panel 1: Visual Code</a></h2>
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<span class="bio-name" id="bobby">Robert Gerard Pietrusko</span> is a cartographer, composer, and educator based in Brooklyn, NY and Philadelphia, PA. His research focuses on the history and design potential of environmental media. His design work is part of the permanent collection of the Foundation Cartier pour l’art contemporain in Paris and has been exhibited in more than 15 countries at venues such The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), The Centre Pompidou, The ZKM Center for Art & Media, and the Venice Architecture Biennale, among others. In 2021, Pietrusko was awarded the Rome Prize for landscape architecture. He is currently an associate professor of landscape architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. He has also collaborated as a Principal Investigator with CSR on <a href="https://c4sr.columbia.edu/projects/plain-sight">In Plain Sight</a>.
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<span class="bio-name" id="lucia">Lucia Rebolino</span> is an architect and a research-based computational designer, currently working as a Researcher at Forensic Architecture in London and previously a Teaching Associate of the MSc Computational Design Practices at Columbia University GSAPP in New York. She conceives her practice as a space where different branches of science and design can conceptualize, critique, visualize, and provoke new counter-cartography aesthetics. Lucia has also collaborated as a Researcher at the Center for Spatial Research, exploring new tools in investigative projects through data visualization. She has lectured and served as a critic at design schools, including the University of Westminster, Columbia GSAPP, Politecnico of Milan and Turin, Domus Academy Milan, and BTU Cottbus. She holds an MArch from Politecnico of Turin and an MSc in Computational Design Practices from Columbia University, where she was recognized with the school award for innovative use of computing media in architectural and design research.
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<span class="bio-name" id="jia">Jia Zhang</span> is a research based artist and designer who works with public data. She currently teaches the “Data Visualization for Architecture, Urban Planning, and the Humanities”, as well as the “Public Data, Data Publics” courses at GSAPP. Jia completed her PhD at MIT’s Media Lab on the topic of visualizing public data. Jia also received a MS in Comparative Media Studies at MIT, and a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in Industrial Design. Jia served as Mellon Associate Research Scholar at Columbia University's Center for Spatial Research from 2018 to 2022. At the CSR, Jia worked on <a href="https://c4sr.columbia.edu/projects/mapping-new-politics-care">Mapping the New Politics of Care</a>, <a href="https://c4sr.columbia.edu/projects/homophily-urban-history-algorithm">Homophily: the Urban History of an Algorithm</a>, and on visualizations of public urban datasets focusing on the U.S.Census.
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<h2><a href="schedule.html#panel2" >Panel 2: Mapping Conflict</a></h2>
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<span class="bio-name" id="jamon">Jamon Van Den Hoek</span> is an Associate Professor of Geography at Oregon State University where he leads the <a href="https://www.conflict-ecology.org/">Conflict Ecology lab</a>. Jamon's research lies at the intersection of humanitarian and peace and conflict research, land cover/land use change, and remote sensing and geospatial sciences. He uses open satellite data to monitor damage to cities and landscapes caused by armed conflict, develop new approaches to map refugee movements and refugee-environment relationships, and assess long-term environmental and climatic changes in politically fragile contexts around the world. Jamon was a NASA Postdoctoral Fellow at Goddard Space Flight Center and completed his PhD in Geography at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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<span class="bio-name" id="shouri">Shourideh C. Molavi</span> is a writer and scholar specializing in critical state theory, decolonization, migration and border studies, and decolonial ecologies, and trained with a background in International Humanitarian Law. She has over 20 years of academic and fieldwork experience in the Middle East—focusing on Palestine—on the topics of border practices, citizenship and statelessness, militarized landscapes, and human and minority rights, with an emphasis on the relationship between the law, violence and power.
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Since 2014, she has worked as a Lead Researcher on Palestine and fieldworker with Forensic Architecture, an interdisciplinary research agency based at Goldsmiths, University of London. The spatial analyses and human rights oriented investigations on Palestine that Shourideh oversees at Forensic Architecture examine how mapping and visualization of physical environments undergoing political violence may enhance the data and scholarship produced—and complement liberation and anti-oppression struggles.
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Her publications include Stateless Citizenship: The Palestinian-Arab Citizens of Israel (Brill, 2013); Contemporary Israel/Palestine (Oxford University Press, 2018); Environmental Warfare in Gaza: Coloniality and Sewing New Landscapes of Resistance (Pluto Press, 2024 forthcoming); and Interrogating the Citizen: The Israeli Logic of Colonial Exclusion and Global Citizenship Restrictions (I.B. Tauris, 2024 forthcoming). Shourideh’s past and ongoing investigations with Forensic Architecture can be found <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__forensic-2Darchitecture.org_about_team_member_shourideh-2Dc-2Dmolavi&d=DwMFaQ&c=009klHSCxuh5AI1vNQzSO0KGjl4nbi2Q0M1QLJX9BeE&r=qFgWD4Dj0aHycQv26XMyi2IrRIHxniZ7mgiwr1H6Dio&m=9B1MIBoXr9DfsV6LsBtkfA57nqlqNKev21x1OMuzPhmRJcmDYFGJMXY359j3ZWDq&s=KXvW4erpdEdBvD7KV-fJfTFp0EbkPJ2Krb_4kU_khgg&e=">here</a>.
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<span class="bio-name" id="mona">Mona Fawaz</span> is Professor in Urban Studies and Planning at the American University of Beirut. She is also a research director and co-founder of the Beirut Urban Lab, a regional research center based at the American University of Beirut and invested in working towards more inclusive, just, and viable cities.
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Mona’s research stems from the imperative of making cities more just. Her research has addressed urbanization through the lenses of informality and the law, land, housing, property and space, always responding to the urge of informing planning theory and practice. Her findings are published in scholarly articles, book sections, and reports but also in the local press where she is a vocal advocate of the right to housing, inclusive public space, and just urban governance. Mona has also worked as a consultant, advising on urban and regional development, housing, land, and property issues.
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Mona is currently Honorary Professor at UCL's Department of Planning, and she has held several visiting teaching positions including at École Normale Superieure (Paris, Spring 2023) and University of Basel (Winter 2021). She was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Studies at Harvard University. She currently serves on the boards of the Arab Council for the Social Sciences, The Policy Initiative, and The Century Foundation International. She also serves as editor for the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research and serves on the board of the journals<i> Planning Theory and City and Society</i>.
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<h2><a href="schedule.html#panel3" >Panel 3: Counter Narratives</a></h2>
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<span class="bio-name" id="ana">Ana Paulina Lee</span> is a scholar, writer, and digital media producer whose work focuses on cultural histories of migration, climate, and diaspora, with a focus on Asian and African diasporas in Latin American and Iberian regions. She is the author of Mandarin Brazil: Race, Representation, and Memory (Stanford University Press) winner of the 2019 Antonio Candido Prize for Best Book in the Humanities. Her podcasts and documentary projects include, Memória e Saberes, made in collaboration with Ilê Omolu e Oxum candomblé terreiro in Rio de Janeiro and Memória e Migração, made in collaboration with the Sankofa Memory and History Museum in Rocinha and Observatório de Favelas in the Maré Complex, in Rio de Janeiro. She is Associate Professor of Latin American and Iberian Cultures at Columbia University.
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Professor Lee co-directs the working group, Geographies of Injustice, sponsored by the Center for the Study of Social Difference, the Center for Spatial Research, and the Social Sciences Research Council. The social action-centered working group converges at the intersection of research, action, and artistic practice to fortify civil liberties concerning self-housing settlements in Rio de Janeiro and Bombay/Mumbai. Professor Lee also co-leads the Columbia World Projects: Planting Stories: Seeds of Diaspora, which attends to the migration histories of plants and their relationship to human movements, cultural practices, and health. The project team develops educational materials for use by learning institutions across New York City. Lee is also a member of the Climate School Earth Networks: Bridging Scientific and Artistic Approaches, which brings together botanical studies, cultural studies, and artistic production as a means to address contemporary climate change issues.
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<span class="bio-name" id="mitch">V. Mitch McEwen</span> leads Harlem-based <a href="https://www.atelieroffice.nyc/">Atelier Office</a>. McEwen also teaches at Princeton University's School of Architecture, where she directs the architecture and technology research group <a href="https://box.princeton.edu/">Black Box</a>, exploring biomaterials and human-robotic processes in design and construction. She is one of ten co-founders of the <a href="https://www.blackreconstructioncollective.org/">Black Reconstruction Collective</a>. McEwen’s design work has been commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art and the Venice Architecture Biennale US Pavilion, as well as awarded grants from the Graham Foundation, Knight Foundation, and New York State Council on the Arts.
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<span class="bio-name" id="catherine">Catherine D’Ignazio</span> is a hacker mama, scholar, and artist/designer who focuses on feminist technology, data literacy and civic engagement. She has run women’s health hackathons, designed global news recommendation systems, created talking and tweeting water quality sculptures, and led walking data visualizations to envision the future of sea level rise. Her 2020 book from MIT Press, <a href="https://bookbook.pubpub.org/data-feminism"><i>Data Feminism</i></a>, co-authored with Lauren Klein, charts a course for more ethical and empowering data science practices. Her 2024 book, <a href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262048873/counting-feminicide/"><i>Counting Feminicide: Data Feminism in Action</i></a> (MIT Press) is an extended case study about grassroots data activism to end gender-related violence. D’Ignazio is an Associate Professor of Urban Science and Planning in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT where she is the Director of the <a href="http://dataplusfeminism.mit.edu">Data + Feminism Lab</a>.
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<h2><a href="schedule.html#panel4" >Panel 4: Local Data</a></h2>
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<span class="bio-name" id="dan">Dan Miller</span> is a Senior Research Associate at the Center for Spatial Research, where he currently leads the <a href="https://mappinghny.com/">Mapping Historical New York Project</a>. Dan’s work as a researcher and designer draws on web mapping; spatial data science and visualization; critical GIS; and the digital, urban humanities. Prior to joining the CSR, Dan managed human rights and spatial analysis casework at Brooklyn-based architectural practice SITU as well as historical US Census data at Social Explorer. He has contributed to work exhibited at the Storefront for Art and Architecture, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and the Yale University Art Gallery, and he has taught methods in environmental and urban sociology at Queens College CUNY.
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<span class="bio-name" id="tim">Tim Guangyu Wu</span> is a doctoral student at NYU Wagner and NYU Shanghai and a doctoral researcher at Shanghai Key Laboratory of Urban Design and Urban Science (LOUD). His research area lies at the intersection of urban planning and data science. Particularly, he is interested in creating urban digital twins with GeoAI to support the design of sustainable, resilient, and inclusive cities. Before starting his Ph.D., he worked as an associate research scholar at GSAPP, Columbia University, where he applied data science skills to urban history research. He holds a B.S. in Data Science and Finance from NYU and an M.S. in Data Science from Columbia University.
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<span class="bio-name" id="yanni">Yanni Alexander Loukissas</span> is Founding Executive Director of the <a href="https://media-arts.gatech.edu/center">Interdisciplinary Media Arts Center</a> and Associate Professor of Digital Media in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at Georgia Tech. His research is focused on helping creative people think critically about the social implications of information technologies. His most recent book, <i>All Data Are Local: Thinking Critically in a Data-Driven Society</i> (MIT Press, 2019), is addressed to a growing audience of practitioners who want to work with unfamiliar sources both effectively and ethically. He is also the author of <i>Co-Designers: Cultures of Computer Simulation in Architecture</i> (Routledge, 2012) and co-editor of <i>The DigitalSTS Handbook</i> (Princeton, 2019). Before coming to Georgia Tech, he was a lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where co-coordinated the Program in Art, Design and the Public Domain. He has also been a Media Arts Fellow at metaLAB, a research project of the Harvard Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. He has taught at Cornell, MIT, and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. Originally trained as an architect at Cornell, he subsequently attended MIT, where he received a Master of Science and a PhD in Design and Computation. He completed postdoctoral work at the MIT Program in Science, Technology and Society.
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<a href="https://open-weather.community"><i>Open-weather</i></a> is a feminist experiment in imagining and imagining the earth and its weather systems using DIY tools. Co-founded in 2020 by designer <span class="bio-name" id="sophie">Sophie Dyer</span> and geographer <span class="bio-name" id="sasha">Sasha Engelmann</span>, the collective produces artworks, workshops, and educational resources. From these activities a network of more than 100 DIY Satellite Ground Station operators, from Berlin to Buenos Aires, has grown around the project. In the tradition of intersectional feminism, open-weather investigates the politics of location and interlocking forms of oppression that shape our capacities to observe, negotiate, and respond to the climate crisis. In doing so, the collective challenges dominant representations of the Earth and environment while adding complexity to ideas around the weather beyond meteorology.
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<h2><a href="schedule.html#panel5" >Panel 5: Network Models</a></h2>
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<span class="bio-name" id="beth">Dr. Beth Coleman</span> is Associate Professor of Data & Cities at the Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology and Faculty of Information, University of Toronto. Working in the disciplines of science and technology studies and generative aesthetics Beth Coleman’s research focuses on artificial intelligence & smart technology, urban data and civic engagement, and transmedia arts. She is the author of <a href="https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/search.jsp?view=grid&Erp=25&Ntt=Hello+Avatar+beth+coleman">Hello Avatar</a> and <a href="https://k-verlag.org/books/beth-coleman-reality-was-whatever-happened/">Reality Was Whatever Happened: Octavia Butler AI and Other Possible Worlds</a>, as well as many articles, including “Race as Technology” and “Technology of the Surround.” She has been a Google Brain and Responsible AI senior visiting researcher with as well as a 2021 Google Artists and Machines Intelligence awardee. She is a founding member of the Trusted Data Sharing group and research lead on AI policy and praxis at the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology & Society. Her research affiliations have included the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University; Microsoft Research New England; Data & Society Institute, New York; and expert consultant for the European Commission Digital Futures. She served as the Founding Director of the U of T <a href="https://brn.utoronto.ca/">Black Research Network</a> Institute Strategic Initiative. She is the co-founder of SoundLab Cultural Alchemy, an internationally acclaimed multimedia art and sound platform. She has a history of international exhibition and artist residencies including venues such as the Whitney Museum of American Art, New Museum of Contemporary Art, Récollets Paris, and Pioneer Works, New York. She is currently working on the monograph, <i>AI in the World: perils and possibilities of a General Purpose Technology. </i>
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<span class="bio-name" id="ezekiel">Ezekiel Dixon-Román</span> is Professor of Critical Race, Media, & Educational Studies at Teachers College, Columbia University, where he is the Director of the Edmund W. Gordon Institute for Urban and Minority Education. He joined the Teachers College faculty on January 1 2023, after fourteen and a half years at the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy & Practice. His research seeks to make cultural and critical theoretical interventions toward rethinking and reconceptualizing the technologies and practices of quantification as mediums and agencies of systems of sociopolitical relations whereby race and other assemblages of difference are byproducts. He is the author of Inheriting Possibility: Social Reproduction & Quantification in Education (2017, University of Minnesota Press). He also co-guest edited “Alternative Ontologies of Number: Rethinking the Quantitative in Computational Culture” (2016, Cultural Studies-Critical Methodologies), “Control Societies @30: Technopolitical Forces and Ontologies of Difference” (2020, Social Text Online), and most recently “Dialogues on Recursive Colonialism, Speculative Computation, and the Techno-Social” (2021, e-flux journal). He is also a co-editor of the Duke University Press book series, “Anima: Critical Race Studies Otherwise”; a member of the Social Text editorial collective; and, associate editor of the 2023 and 2025 volumes of the Review of Research in Education, one of the flagship journals for the American Educational Research Association. He is currently working on a book project that examines the haunting formations of the transparent subject in machine intelligence and the potential for transformative technopolitical systems.
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<span class="bio-name" id="wendy">Wendy Hui Kyong Chun</span> is Simon Fraser University’s <a href="https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fwww.canada150.chairs-chaires.gc.ca%2fhome-accueil-eng.aspx&c=E,1,jXzs1hTUIwt_rBIcYWZDeZIvW7Nb3UN4TetkcZ53dKrhgg6VuxnQBzyegIXcFU1YoY7VX8RTls14Cuibo-3MKTFLu8r5rz5jpoJUv324mHbZ3I-GqPnhkw,,&typo=1">Canada 150 Research Chair in New Media</a>, Professor in the School of Communication, and Director of the Digital Democracies Institute. At the Institute, she leads the Mellon-funded Data Fluencies Project, which combines the interpretative traditions of the arts and humanities with critical work in the data sciences to express, imagine, and create innovative engagements with (and resistances to) our data-filled world.</p>
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She has studied both Systems Design Engineering and English Literature, which she combines and mutates in her research on digital media. She has authored many books, including: <i>Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics</i> (MIT, 2006), <i>Programmed Visions: Software and Memory</i> (MIT 2011), <i>Updating to Remain the Same: Habitual New Media</i> (MIT 2016), and <i>Discriminating Data: Correlation, Neighborhoods, and the New Politics of Recognition</i> (2021, MIT Press). She has been Professor and Chair of the Department of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University, where she worked for almost two decades and is currently a Visiting Professor. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and has also held fellowships from: the Guggenheim, ACLS, American Academy of Berlin, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard.
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<h2><a href="schedule.html#panel6" >Panel 6: Counter Forensics</a></h2>
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<span class="bio-name" id="alison">Alison Killing</span> is an investigative journalist and licensed architect. She currently serves as a Senior visual investigations reporter at the Financial Times. In 2021, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting, together with Megha Rajagopalan and Christo Buschek for an investigation that uncovered a secret network of detention camps in Xinjiang, China. Allison uses open source techniques, geospatial analysis and 3d modeling to investigate and communicate urgent social issues, from surveillance in cities, to migration to uncovering secret networks of prison camps. Her prior projects include 'Migration Trail,' which uses maps, data, and social media to document migrant journeys to Europe, and 'Death in Venice,' an exhibition that merges discussions on death and architecture.
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<span class="bio-name" id="maksym">Maksym Rokmaniko</span> (born in 1991 in Khmelnytsky, Ukraine) is a Ukrainian architect, researcher, and educator whose work emphasizes the use of spatial modeling technologies as a mode of inquiry into the urban condition. He is the founding director of the Center for Spatial Technologies (CST), a multidisciplinary practice based in Kyiv and Berlin – working at the intersection of architectural, investigative, anthropological, and artistic practices. With the escalation of Russia’s war against Ukraine, CST is working on the theme of war crimes and human rights violations. The Center collaborates with artistic and research institutions, grassroots initiatives, and human rights and forensic organizations. Rokmaniko regularly delivers talks and workshops in Europe and contributes work to exhibitions and cultural events. He lives and works in Berlin.
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<span class="bio-name" id="nick">Nick Masterton</span> is a researcher at Forensic Architecture. He specialises in the spatialisation of images through methods such as photogrammetry, motion tracking, and camera matching. He is also familiar with geospatial tools such as QGIS, the use of OpenStreetMap data, and photogrammetric landscape tiles. These tools have been employed by Nick in cases at Forensic Architecture including the investigation into the Killing of Mark Duggan, the Port of Beirut Explosion, and the Grenfell Tower Fire. Nick also studied at the Architectural Association where his diploma work involved documenting the daily lives of gig economy workers using the Amazon mechanical Turk.
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