Network Mapping & Analysis Workshop

Talk/Lecture: June 28th, Tuesday, 7:00 to 9:00 pm
Workshop: June 29th, Wednesday, 7:00 to 10:00 pm
Lecturer: Burak Arikan
Venue: Xindanwei, 50 Yongjia Rd., Shanghai
Cost: 30 rmb/person/night, coffee and tea served

Burak Arikan, artist, MIT Media Lab alumni/ITP adjunct, this year’s ISEA panel chair, etc. (bio here) is coming to Shanghai at the end of this month while in transit to his workshop in Mongolia with Arthub Asia and Open Academy. He will be giving a lecture and workshop at Xindanwei.

Event Information
This 3-hour workshop will focus on the design and understanding of complex networks through mapping and visual analysis. Starting with hands on simple drawing exercises participants will gradually build complex compositions on the computer. There will be an emphasis on network topology, relationship types, information modeling, visual analysis, centralization and clustering. Participants will learn the most through observing, sketching, collaborating and participating in the discussions. Workshop participants should bring their laptops for the mapping exercises.

PART I: How to map networks?
Graph theory, relationship types, network topologies, modeling

PART II: How to analyze networks?
Centralization, clustering, structural holes
Graph Commons will be used for the exercises and can be found here.

About the lecturer:
Burak works with network structures and dynamics to explore issues in techno-politics and alternative economics. His creative network workshop series focuses on the design of large scale networks as a creative activity and expanding the individual’s thinking about the network as a creative medium.

More info about the network mapping and analysis workshops can be found here.
The two evenings are presented in collaboration with Arthub Asia.