Course Objectives

Following successful completion of the course, students will have acquired an overview of existing forensic methodologies and specialized in the ones that pertain to their research focus and areas of interest. Outcomes and objectives include but are not limited to;

• Discuss contemporary literature and approaches to mobility, asylum, climate violence and spatial practice.

• Critically read news, social media, maps and other visual devices to understand their agency as socio-spatial devices for design.

• Identify the interrelations between the production of space, conflict and mobility, and how spatial analysis in turn can offer a means for analyzing and contesting it.

• Conduct collaborative interdisciplinary research combining humanities and social science methods with creative practice and visual representation.

• Discuss inextricably theoretical, political and methodological questions in relation to the different tools and methods used to register traces of conflict.

• Use of Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis (ESDA), Geovisualization (GVIS) and data visualization technologies through the use of interactive notebooks such as Observable and Jupyter Notebooks.