a blog by Peter Leonard
I’ve survived the first week of a NEH Digital Humanities Summer Institute, held on the UCLA campus. This workshop is focused on “digital cultural mapping,” a specialty here at UCLA, and we’re availing ourselves of both the great facilities such as the new Digital Humanities center in Young Library…
…as well as local talent such as Yoh, an expert in web-based geospatial data:
The UCLA facilities are seriously great. Check out the high contrast of the rear-projection system, surround by nouveau Mid-Mentury Modern detailing that responds to the 1964 architecture of Young Library:
I’m working on a project on the Florentine Renaissance — here’s Niall showing his work on the acoustic landscape of Florence: the bells citizens would have heard at each hour, as legislative, executive, private, and ecclesiastical towers rang throughout the day:
