Specialist Meeting on Spatial Concepts in GIS and Design
December 15-16, 2008
Upham Hotel
Santa Barbara, California
The idea for this specialist meeting originates in discussions over the potential of
integrating design more fully into GIS, and over the development of curriculum in spatial thinking.
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For the past three years, in collaboration with both the US University Consortium for
Geographic Information Science and UK’s Royal Geographical Society Quantitative Methods
Research Group, the World Wide University Networks’ Global GISc Academy has been promoting
the idea of international ‘virtual’ seminars.
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This is the first issue of Vertices, a quarterly report on the activities of the
spatial studies center known as spatial@ucsb. Providing a forum for faculty and students to share the results of their spatially-focused research.
A mere 8 miles west of Goleta, California lies a monumental (and previously invisible) geospatial
point of reference: 120 degrees West, or more simply put, 1/3 of the way around the Earth. This line
of longitude is a major global point of reference for projection systems, serving as the dividing line
between zones 10 and 11 in the Universal Transverse Mercator projection system.
An unusual new university center devoted to spatial reasoning and technologies in planning, research, and
teaching will introduce itself to the campus with speakers and a reception on Thursday, May 29, say organizers.
The free event, "Connecting Our Region Through GIS and Geospatial Technologies," will welcome the public to the
Corwin Pavilion, beginning with a poster session at 2 p.m.
For more information, read the online version of 93106.
Spatial Thinking What do DNS, Black Studies, and "anywhere augmentation" have in common?
With roots in geography and a reach into subjects ranging from music and
psychology to black studies, spatial thinking is big at UC Santa Barbara.
It all comes together at the UCSB Center for Spatial Studies, known
as spatial@ucsb.
spatial@ucsb promotes spatial literacy and nature exploration for 6th Graders
Our children today have few opportunities to freely explore open fields, meadows, creeks, woods, or even the neighborhoods in which they live. Unorganized and unsupervised exploration, however, teaches them spatial reasoning skills in geographic space -- skills that cannot be learned by indoor play or passive vehicular movement.
