VizUM 2025: Critical Cartography will deconstruct and reconstruct the maps we encounter in our daily lives to seek ways to understand geospatial visualizations as sophisticated storytelling devices that speak to the human experience.
VizUM is a free annual data visualization symposium featuring speakers who are pioneers in the field, whose vision drive products and styles we see around us daily, and who forge new ground in this domain. This event is free and open to the public.
Monday, November 10, 2025 | 4:00-7:00 PM
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Newman Alumni Center, 6200 San Amaro Drive, Coral Gables, FL 33146 | Map + Directions
Speakers
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John B. KrygierProfessor and Chair
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Annette M. KimAssociate Professor |
| John Krygier is a geographer with teaching and research specializations in geospatial, cartography, geographic information systems (GIS), and environmental and human geography.
Krygier has extensive research and applied experience. Krygier’s research interests include cartography and map design for GIS, critical cartography & GIS, mapping in the arts and humanities, Participatory GIS, the history of mapping, environmental studies, and environmental history. Read his complete CV (PDF). More information about Krygier’s courses and research can be found on his Ohio Wesleyan web pages. |
Annette M. Kim, Ph.D., is Associate Professor at the Sol Price School of Public Policy. She is also the Director of SLAB, the spatial analysis laboratory at USC Price that advances the visualization of the social sciences for public service through teaching, research, and public engagement. She also holds a courtesy appointment at the USC Roski School of Art and Design.
Her research experiments with ways to recover data of overlooked peoples and phenomenon by incorporating fieldwork and humanities knowledge into spatial analysis. She utilizes critical cartography and spatial ethnography to re-conceptualize contemporary urbanism and find more inclusive and humane ways to design and govern the 21st century city. She has also researched the development of real estate markets and the reformation of property rights in transition countries in Eastern Europe and Asia. Her books include Sidewalk City: Re-Mapping Public Space in Ho Chi Minh City (University of Chicago Press, 2015) and Learning to be Capitalists: Entrepreneurs in Vietnam’s Transition Economy (Oxford University Press, 2008), translated into Vietnamese in 2022 by Nha Nam Press. Previously, Dr. Kim was Associate Professor at MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning. She received her Ph.D. in city and regional planning and masters of visual studies from the University of California, Berkeley. She received her masters in public policy and urban planning from Harvard University and her B.A. in architecture and studio art from Wellesley College. |
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Sponsors
VizUM is sponsored by the Open Visualization Academy, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, and the University of Miami School of Communication and Frost Institute for Data Science and Computing (IDSC).
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