Month: September 2016

Finding the field

Having joined the Monsoon Assemblages team in mid-August, I find myself one month in to the project and time has flown. Over the past weeks we have started the process of ‘finding the field’ and locating ourselves within the project. As most of the team have not worked in Chennai before, we have begun by […]

Monsoon Assemblages Seminar 01

Imploding the Post-Disaster Information Vacuum: Crowd-sourcing a real-time flood map for Indonesia For the launch of our Monsoon Assemblages seminar series, on the 23rd of September, 2016, Dr. Tomas Holderness, research associate at MIT, Cambridge, MA, presented the PetaJakarta open source flood map, for Jakarta. The project is already in the course of its third year […]

Monsoon Assemblages Seminar Series

As part of the Monsoon Assemblages research project, the MONASS team are organising a series of public seminars. These seminars have been conceived with at least two objectives in mind. On one hand, the seminars will assist and inspire the research team in following and tracing the many rivulets of associations that flow through and […]