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  • Call for papers: ILANSCO 2024

    Conference ILANSCO

    From September 9th to 11th, the University of Zurich hosted the ILANSCO Conference - Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Landscapes in Language, Society and Cognition 2024.

  • Visit of Prof. Dr. Margaret Awuor Owuor from the Wyss Academy for Nature

    An inspiring visit by Dr. Martin Drenthen from Radboud University

    The Geocomputation group was recently privileged to host environmental philosopher Dr. Martin Drenthen from Radboud University in the Netherlands. His one-week-visit resulted in a rich and thought-provoking exploration of ethical questions about nature management and rewilding, and specifically the return of large mammals to the Netherlands.

  • Visit of Prof. Dr. Margaret Awuor Owuor from the Wyss Academy for Nature

    Visit of Prof. Dr. Margaret Awuor Owuor from the Wyss Academy for Nature

    On Wednesday 13th March we hosted Prof Dr. Margaret Awuor Owuor from the Wyss Academy for Nature with affiliation to the Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Bern.

  • Let’s talk about (changing) landscape values.

    Let’s talk about (changing) landscape values.

    From the 17th to 19th of January a small group of scholars with complementary expertise including among others geographers, landscape ecologists and environmental historians came together at Herzberg in the Jura mountains. In the workshop, participants looked at interdisciplinary approaches to (changing) landscape value with a focus on perception and diversity.

  • Call for papers: ILANSCO 2024

    Call for papers: ILANSCO 2024

    The Geocomputation unit supports the organization of the conference ILANSCO 2024.

  • Extracting positive descriptions and exploring landscape value using text analysis in the Cairngorms National Park

    Extracting positive descriptions and exploring landscape value using text analysis in the Cairngorms National Park

    What is the impact of natural landscapes on our wellbeing? To understand this, we study how positive emotions denote values of a place.

  • Participation in the 7th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Geospatial Humanities, Hamburg

    The conference covers original research contributions in conceptual, design, and implementations with geospatial data.

  • PhD Defense Maximilian Hartmann

    On 10th November, 2023, Maximilian Hartmann had his PhD Defense, entitled: "Building Spatially Explicit Policy Indicators Based on User-Generated Content: Resources, Methods and Implementations".

  • Using illustration-based interview methods to understand land management and conservation visions

    We use engaging and inclusive illustration-based interview methods to understand land management and conservation visions.

  • Participation in the conference “On the sense of a name”, Torino (Italy)

    Urban toponymy unveils how people experience and interpret the urban landscape. Sara Racca from the Geocomputation group has been invited to the conference On the sense of a name:

  • Profiling Swiss parks with user generated content

    Are you searching for the right holiday destination in Switzerland? Are you a park manager that wants to know more about how the park is used? In our recent publication you might find the answer!

  • Seeing through a new lens: exploring the potential of city walking tour videos for urban analytics

    How sustainable is urban transport in a given city and how can we quantify it? Zurich has pledged to be net zero by 2040. 

  • Inhye Kong to be awarded UZH Postdoc grant (formerly Forschungskredit)

    Inhye Kong to be awarded UZH Postdoc grant (formerly Forschungskredit)

    Geocomp postdoc Inhye Kong received a UZH Postdoc grant with her proposal “Coupling Science and Narratives”. Beginning in October, she will investigate media text corpora to better understand how landscape values are changing as a result of climate change.

  • Do different linguistic natives share similar conceptualization of landscape?

    Do different linguistic natives share similar conceptualization of landscape?

    From a collaborative work with Professor Asifa Majid at Oxford, our new paper compared language-driven conceptualisation of landscapes.

  • Global landscape preference study published in Plos One

    A new study explores landscape preference globally. Led by Alex Dunkel of TU Dresden, this paper explores who, how and where sunset and sunrise is captured by two popular social media platforms, Flickr and Instagram.

     

  • Identifying landscape relevant natural language

    Finding natural language which describes landscape can be like looking for a needle in a haystack. Manuel Baer used contributions to Window Expeditions and sentence transformers to find similar descriptions.

     

  • Unlocking Environmental Narratives

    Newspapers, travel diaries, policy documents and even fiction offer rich material capturing relationships between people and surroundings. 

     

  • Do different linguistic natives share similar conceptualization of landscape?

    How place functionality can be derived from individual’s descriptions

    Places are usually ambiguous and context dependent. Place functionality as a context in place descriptions is one of the prominent and distinguishing features of place.

  • Mina is a visiting researcher at the University of Zurich

    New group member

    Mina is a visiting researcher at the University of Zurich. She is pursuing her Ph.D. degree in geospatial information systems (GIS) at K. N. Toosi University of Technology (KNTU).