Urban History Digital Infrastructures: Sharing Expertise and Networking Cities
2025
This fall, the Center for Urban History, with the support of the Center for Governance and Culture in Europe at the University of St.Gallen, organizes a series of seminars and workshops around specific cases of urban history digital platforms/projects, entitled "Urban History Digital Infrastructures: Sharing Expertise and Networking Cities".
This series focuses on methodological connections between urban history and digital humanities. It engages with the challenges of how to explore the complexities of cities' histories and culture with the help of digital tools for mapping, visualizing, and storytelling. Furthermore, we ask how digital can be employed in a sustainable and long-term perspective in the context of the continuous project maintenance and technological obsolescence challenges.
We intend to emphasize the process of making digital urban history, instead of only discussing the end products. We want to explore the circumstances of developing digital urban history by discussing the situated context of a digital project design, infrastructural dependencies, constraints, and limitations behind it, discoveries, hesitations, and failures in the decision-making process. Putting the process at the core of the project helps to involve both researchers and practitioners of urban history and digital humanities to share challenges in ongoing projects and experiences for launching the new ones. In other words, such an approach will enhance the capacities of the field of digital humanities more generally.
The events of the series will be launched online. To receive an invitation to participate in events, please contact Sofia Andrusyshyn via email: s.andrusyshyn@lvivcenter.org.ua.
Upcoming events in 2025
- Lviv Interactive and its Heritage: Presentation of Redesign and Discussion over Platform's Development, Roksolyana Holovata, Taras Nazaruk / October 1, 2025 / online.
- Digital Collection Management for Cultural Institutions: Omeka S as case study, Tugce Karatas / October 6, 2025 / online.
- From Maps to Satellite Images: Creating Visual History with OldMaps, Artem Kostiuk / October 21, 2025 / online.
- Ghent Mapped. Linking time, place and people, Fien Danniau / November 12 / online.
- History Unbound: Harlem in Disorder as an Example of Using the Digital Medium to Present Evidence and Context, Stephen Robertson / November 20, 2025 / online.
Credits
Cover Image: The header image visualizes data from the Lviv Interactive platform as of 2017.
