Assistant Professor
SUNY Old Westbury

Paper Title
“Out of Bounds: Mapping Uptown Youth’s Everyday Mobility through Geotagged Photo-making”

Bio
Svetlana Jović is an Assistant Professor of developmental psychology in the Psychology Department at SUNY Old Westbury. She is a sociocultural psychologist with expertise in diverse methods of critical sociocultural analysis, including narrative, sociolinguistic, visual, and spatial analysis. Dr. Jović’s research concerns socio-cognitive development among children and youth in challenging contexts, including poverty, migration, cultural diversity, and integration. Through acknowledging the detrimental effects of the socioeconomic (and political) challenges that many children and youth—especially the underrepresented—experience, Dr. Jović’s work emphasizes the socio-cognitive advantages that young people growing up in adversity acquire.

https://www.oldwestbury.edu/people/jovics

Assistant Professor
Mississippi State University

Paper Title
“Towards a situated mapping: visualizing urban inequality between the god trick and strategic positivism”

Bio
Dr. Taylor Shelton is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geosciences at Mississippi State University. Taylor is a broadly-trained human geographer whose research focuses on how urban spaces and social inequalities are represented, reproduced and contested through data. In particular, he is interested in using mapping and data visualization to produce alternative understandings of urban socio-spatial inequalities, especially as it relates to issues of housing and property ownership. Taylor earned BA and MA degrees in geography from the University of Kentucky and his PhD from the Graduate School of Geography at Clark University.

@kyjts
http://www.taylorshelton.info

Director
Urban Systems Lab, The New School

Paper Title
“Distributional Justice of Urban Environmental Quality: Mapping the Mismatches in Supply and Demand of Ecosystem Services in New York City”

Bio
Dr. Timon McPhearson is Director of the Urban Systems Lab and Associate Professor of Urban Ecology at The New School in New York City. He is a Senior Research Fellow at The Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies and Associate Research Fellow at Stockholm Resilience Centre. He is an IPCC Lead Author focusing on urban adaptation pathways in cities. In 2019 he was awarded the Sustainability Science Award and the Innovation in Sustainability Science Award by the Ecological Society of America. He is published widely in scientific journals (Nature, Nature Climate Change, Nature Sustainability, BioScience), books (e.g. Urban Planet), popular press (The Nature of Cities), and in the press (The New York Times, The Guardian, The Nation, New York Times Magazine, CityLab, Urban Omnibus, etc.)

@timonmcphearson
http://urbansystemslab.com

PhD Student
The New School, Urban Systems Lab

Paper Title
“Justice in Coastal Cities: A Comparative Study of Six New York City Community Districts”

Bio
Veronica Olivotto is a researcher, teacher and consultant working on urban climate change adaptation and risk reduction with a keen interest in the politics of decision making in climate resilience at multiple scales. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Public and Urban Policy at the New School of New York, and an associate at the Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies (IHS) based in Erasmus University Rotterdam (The Netherlands). In the past, Veronica worked on climate change related assignments and training for the German Development Agency (GIZ), the European Commission and various branches of the United Nations. She is an author and member of the Urban Climate Change Research Network (UCCRN). Veronica holds degrees from Erasmus University Rotterdam (M.Sc Urban Management and Development, 2010), Edinburgh-Napier University (M.Sc Ecotourism, 2007) and Milan University (B.A. Tourism and Local Community, 2005). 

@V_Olivotto

PhD Candidate, Geography
UC Berkeley

Paper Title
“Gourmet Gentrification: Mapping Elite Tastes Along New York’s Consumption Frontier, 1990-2015”

Bio
Will Payne is a PhD candidate in Geography at UC Berkeley, where he is also affiliated with the Berkeley Center for New Media and the Berkeley Global Urban Humanities Initiative. Will is researching the parallel evolution of location-based media and elite consumption cultures, from the “crowdsourcing” pioneer the Zagat Survey in the 1980s to contemporary applications like Yelp, Foursquare, and Google Maps/Local. He is interested in how these technologies and practices have helped to transform urban neighborhoods through a process of “algorithmic gentrification,” with a focus on New York and San Francisco as sites of experimentation and dissemination.

@willbpayne
https://geography.berkeley.edu/will-payne

Postgraduate Researcher
Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths

Paper Title
“A Tale of Two Cities: Sur Before and After”