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34 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
University of the Arts, London
Negotiating the City through Google Street View
This 5,000-word, peer-reviewed chapter examines how Google Street View is reconfiguring relationships between photography and the built environment. The underlying research consisted of an in-depth interview with Street View's lead designer at Google, Andy Szybalski, combined with visual content analysis of, and discourse analysis relating to, still image extracts from Street View. Prior to publication, the research formed the basis for a panel discussion, ‘Internet<--->City’, during UCL Urban Laboratory’s ‘Cities/Methodologies’ programme in 2011.
Following publication of the chapter, a digital visual outcome from the research, ‘Realtime London’, was exhibited at ‘One Day in the City Festival’ (UCL, English Department, 2012) and at UCL Urban Lab’s ‘Cities/Methodologies’ programme, 2012 (selected through peer review in both cases).
The UCL Urban Laboratory, founded in 2005, is a cross-disciplinary centre for research addressing major challenges relating to urban design and city life; it is a focus for collaborations internationally within and beyond academia.
