Thanks again to everyone who came out to our inaugural Urban Prototyping Festival October 20! We're pleased to announce that recordings of all four of our incredible UP:SF panel discussions are now available online! Visit the links below to watch each panel and learn more about the principles behind UP from some of the world's preeminent experts in placemaking, design thinking, prototyping, and urban data. Every panel was overflowing out the door during the festival, and showed just how quickly interest in this this movement is growing. Thanks again to all our panelists, and keep the discussion going by ...

Maps are not only visual, but also spatiotemporal objects. They communicate across past, present, and future societies and move between local and global geographies. For the past three years, my research of maps has enriched my perception that maps serve as artistic representations of bodies as well as historical movements of bodies and knowledge. Data mapping also conveys differentiated movements of objects and knowledge. However, unlike maps of the past, data mapping's capacity to make sensible and legible its precisely measured content extends directly to the end user. Maps have the potential to reveal global patterns and trends through representations ...