GA Conf22 Public Lecture: Professor James Cheshire - #4 of many

This is the latest in a whole series of posts which will trail some of the speakers at the GA Conference 2022, and explain why you should consider adding them to your personal schedule for the three days if you are attending in person (and some of them will also be available for those joining remotely from around the world).

The first event (other than the field visits which I have blogged separately) is the Public Lecture.

This year it is being given by Professor James Cheshire.

James works at UCL. He is Professor of Geographic Information and Cartography, University College London.

He has produced a number of excellent map projects in the past, and his latest is called 'Atlas of the Invisible' and explores processes which enable our everyday lives, but tend not to be noticed.

His Public Lecture is open to all, and is followed by the GA Awards.

His title is: "The power of maps".

Through stunning maps and visualisations James will show how geography is not only at the heart of many of the world’s challenges but also offers a solution to them. You will see examples from pioneering thinkers and data visualisers from the 19th Century and hear how they are inspiring mapmakers today. There will be behind-the-scenes insights into the techniques and concepts required to transform complex data into inspiring information and discussion of whether we can have too much data. 

The book is accompanied by a range of educational resources that were produced to go along with the book 'Atlas of the Invisible', and were also published in 2021.

These were created by Paul Turner, Catherine Owen and Kit Marie Rackley, in association with James Cheshire.

You can take a look at these ahead of time, but there are more to come, and Paul and Kit will talk through the work that they did to work on the resources in a later session, which I shall also blog details of here.

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