This workshop will focus on data-objects, or historical, data-based research and mapping projects related to Detroit, from the 1930s to the 1980s. Students and invited guests will reflect about these objects in the context of the Cold War and the global dimension or urbanization processes, and in relationship to the Mapping Detroit project, currently prepared at Taubman College.

9:00 - 10:45AM: Detroit Cold War
Tim Barney
University of Richmond

Presentations from:
Jessica Puff
Anjelica Hope Perez
Bader AlBader & Christine Hwang

10:50 - 1:00PM: Detroit Global

Presentations:
Amit Ittyerah
Weican Zuo

Discussants:
Robert Fishman
Manuel Shvartzberg Carrio
Anya Sirota
Lukasz Stanek
Kathy Velikov
Claire Zimmerman