Critical Mapping
Mapping and data visualization play an instrumental role in most projects at the Beirut Urban Lab and are considered core components of its research methodology. The map is recognized as a tool for researching, analyzing, and representing urban phenomena as much as it is a tool for public engagement, advocacy, and media activism. Through this platform, we question the conventions of cartographic design and challenge the authority of the map as objective evidence and an instrument of power. The theme seeks to engage new mapping technologies critically, experiment with inventive approaches to visualizing spatial information, and use the map as a key dissemination channel by providing ongoing geographic documentation of the city where data is collected, processed, visualized and shared with other academics, researchers, and the wider public alike.
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12.02.2021
Project
Initiatives in Response to the Beirut Blast
- Urban Recovery
- Critical Mapping
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21.08.2020
News
Municipal Beirut Basemap Available for Download!
- Critical Mapping
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22.07.2020
Project
Beirut Built Environment Database
- Social Value Of Land
- Critical Mapping
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09.06.2020
Project
Beirut: A City for Sale?
- Social Value Of Land
- Planning Actors and Scales
- Critical Mapping
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03.06.2020
Project
Mapping Security in Beirut: A Decade of Research
- Spatial Practices
- Critical Mapping
- Planning Actors and Scales
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08.05.2020
Project
Levant Carta | Beirut
- Urban Recovery
- Critical Mapping
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PUBLISHED 2018
Book
Refugees as City-Makers
- Urban Citizenship
- Critical Mapping
- Spatial Practices
- Urban Informality
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10.09.2018
Project
Inhabiting the City, Remaking its Quarters
- Urban Citizenship
- Critical Mapping
- Spatial Practices
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10.09.2018
Project
Seeing the City as a Delivery Driver
- Urban Citizenship
- Critical Mapping
- Spatial Practices
- Urban Informality
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15.06.2018
Project
Syrian-Owned Businesses in the City
- Urban Citizenship
- Critical Mapping
- Spatial Practices
- Urban Informality
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PUBLISHED 2015
Newspaper Supplement
Practicing the Public
- Spatial Practices
- Critical Mapping