Laura Kurgan of Center for Spatial Research in Conversation with Amale Andraos

Dean Amale Andraos speaks with GSAPP Associate Professor Laura Kurgan, who directs the school's Visual Studies curriculum and the Center for Spatial Research. Her work explores subjects ranging from digital mapping technologies to the ethics and politics of mapping, and the art, science and visualization of data. They discuss the Center for Spatial Research's recently completed Brain Index, a large-scale interactive installation for Columbia University's Mind, Brain, Behavioral Institute, as well as Kurgan's ongoing research project Conflict Urbanism: Aleppo.