Culture and Communities Mapping Project

Morgan Currie is Lecturer in data and society in science, technology and innovation studies at the University of Edinburgh. Her research looks at open and administrative data, automation in the welfare state, activists’ data practices, social justice and the city, web maps and cultural mapping, drawing from the fields of STS, media studies, information studies, and critical data studies. She was awarded a Ph.D. in information studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.Melisa Miranda Correa is an Architect conducting her PhD in Landscape Architecture at Edinburgh University. Her research focuses on interdisciplinary perspectives for urban and rural community development, cultural landscapes and cultural mapping using ethnographic, participatory and action research methods. She explores on her PhD place making and identity signs of indigenous communities living in transit between rural areas and cities.

• Chapter 1: Introduction: The Global Festival City.- Chapter 2: Theories and Methods of Cultural Mapping.- Chapter 3: Cultural Mapping in the City of Edinburgh.- Chapter 4: Neogeoraphy, Software Sorted Geographies and Web Maps.- Chapter 5: Maps, Memories and Stories of Place.