EXHIBITIONS

Second Floor Bay 11, Smith Warehouse
January 12 – April 10, 2015



This spring, Duke University is hosting the Places & Spaces: Mapping Science exhibition, curated over the past ten years by Dr. Katy Borner, director of the Cyberinfrastructure for Networks Science Center in the Department of Information and Library Science at Indiana University.

The Places & Spaces exhibition, a labor of love by internationally renowned visualization researcher Dr. Katy Borner, is a curated exhibition of science maps. The maps span ten years and ten different themes, including “The Power of Forecasts” and “Science Maps for Kids.”

The maps, which are not all cartographic maps but instead represent a variety of visualization techniques, embody a growing understanding that research can have more impact if it is communicated in an engaging way. The nature of the exhibition also allows aspects of science to be communicated more broadly than if they were simply reported in research publications. The exhibition also encourages both researchers and artists to think creatively about how to represent complex processes and concepts in an accessible but visually appealing way, an exercise that often leads to new insights and methods of exploration.

To encourage visitors to cross-disciplinary boundaries both figuratively and literally, the maps can be found across multiple locations on campus. The maps will hang from January 12 until April 10, giving members of the Duke community ample time to interact with all components of the exhibition and attend related events scheduled throughout the semester. The maps will provide wonderful stopping points for touring groups and large meetings that may be scheduled on campus.

Places & Spaces is divided between Gross Hall (30 maps), Smith Warehouse (40 maps) and The Edge, Bostock Library (30 maps).

The organizing committee:
• Angela Zoss (Duke University Libraries, primary organizer)
• Meg Brown (Duke University Libraries)
• Robert Calderbank (iiD, ECE, Math, CS)
• Larry Carin (Office of the Vice Provost for Research, EE)
• Scott Huettel (Psychology and Neuroscience, Psychiatry, Neurobiology)
• Victoria Szabo (ISIS , AAHVS, Wired!, MA+S)
• Julia Trimmer (Scholars@Duke)


Related Events:

• Wednesday, January 21
Manifest Data (S-1 speculative sensation lab)
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
The Edge Workshop Room, Bostock Library

• Wednesday, January 21
Opening Keynote and Reception
Dr. Katy Borner, Curator of the Exhibition
4:00-6:00 PM
The Edge Open Lab, Bostock Library

• Thursday, January 22
Screening of Humanexus
12:00-1:00 PM
Smith Warehouse, Bay 10 (2nd floor), Room A266

• Friday, January 23
Conference: Uncharted: Mapping the Spaces Between Disciplines
9:45 AM – 3:00 PM
Perkins Library, Room 217

• Friday, January 23
Exhibition Tour
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
The Edge, Bostock Library

Support from Duke University for this exhibit comes from: Information
Science + Information Studies; Duke Institute for Brain Sciences; Bass
Connections, Brain & Society Theme; Office of the Vice Provost for
Research; Information Initiative at Duke; Duke University Libraries; Data and Visualization Services; and Scholars@Duke.

For additional information:
http://sites.duke.edu/scimaps/category/venues/
http://scimaps.org/duke
http://sites.duke.edu/scimaps/