Clancy Wilmott
Biographic Data
| ID | 297942 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Clancy Wilmott |
| GIVEN NAMES | Clancy |
| FAMILY NAME | Wilmott |
| SIGNATURE | WILMOTT C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3885-7339 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 53 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Expanding the city digital twin in the context of crisis, cartography and computation
This commentary responds to Gillian Rose's ‘Visualising human life in volumetric cities: city digital twins and other disasters’ as a framework for thinking about crisis and visual cultures in digital twinning practices. It frames Rose's analysis as a specific intervention into the visual and cultural relationship between filmic depictions of disaster and catastrophe replicated through white and masculinist imaginaries of the ordered rational cit…
Digital Twin or Digital Kin: Misunderstandings and Myths about Urban Simulation, and Directions for Change
Using three case studies from the United States and Australia, this article explores the conditions required to make urban digital twin projects successful, considering a traditional urban digital twins (UDT) project and National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded 3D gaming digital twins in New York and a large-scale federated UDT platform in New South Wales (NSW) Australia. The authors argue that questions around interoperability and profit and ten…
Beyond open access: Book publishing in a metric culture
This short commentary responds to Gandy's (2023) piece ‘Books under threat: Open access publishing and the neo‐liberal academy’. It argues that the requirement for open access in UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) grants does not mark a major turning point in academic publishing, but rather is simply the latest trend in a series of changes which have seen academic inequalities redistributed under a metric culture
From the urban factory to the metaverse: Understanding datafication, spatial computing and digital twinning practices
This article considers digital twins and digital twinning practices in relation to the spaces of the factory, city, and the “metaverse.” We draw on the work of urban and new media theorists to argue that digital twins are part of a long history of urban media and computation. Expanding on Walter Benjamin’s notion of phantasmagoria, we argue that the logics of the factory inherent in early digital twins are intensified and expanded in the more rec…
Terra infirma: On the base map in urban cartography and GIS
This article investigates the ways in which base maps are a fundamental, but under-recognised, starting point for planners, architects, cartographers and geographic information scientists in urban spatial planning and decision-making contexts. Focusing on the case study of a collaborative mapping project with the Wood Street Commons, an unhoused community in West Oakland, it contends that base maps create a cartographic terra infirma, fundamental…
Critical computation on a geographical register
This commentary lays out a framework for building on early critical cartographic and critical geographic information system work to develop a critical approach for the computational future of geographical thought and praxis. Computation – as a highly representational and structural form which combines speech and action – is a very particular way of building worlds. As computation becomes more prevalent in critiques of deep fakes, GeoAI, and platf…
Ruins of the smart city: A visual intervention
The visual imaginary of the future city is increasingly dichotomized between visions of hyper-technological digital urbanism and the city in a state of ruin, without people, overtaken by nature. These alternating imaginaries key into concerns over urban futures, as questions of sustainability and rising inequality come to bear on urban life. Such binary imaginaries produce volumes of visual material, lauding and critiquing philosophies of newness…
"Smart" Discourses, the Limits of Representation, and New Regimes of Spatial Data
As "smart" urbanism becomes more influential, spaces and places are increasingly represented through numeric and categorical data that have been gathered by sensors, devices, and people. Such systems purportedly provide access to always visible, measurable, and knowable spaces, facilitating ever more rational management and planning. Smart city spaces are thus governed through the algorithmic administration and categorization of difference and st…
Time for mapping: Cartographic temporalities
The digital era has brought about huge transformations in the map itself, which to date have been largely conceptualised in spatial terms. Novel objects, forms, processes and approaches have emerged and pose new, pressing questions about the temporality of digital maps and contemporary mapping practices: in spite of its implicit spatiality, digital mapping is strongly grounded in time. This collection brings time back into the map, taking up Dore…
I am he. I am he. Siri rules’: Work and play with the Apple Watch
In this article, we will use autoethnographic accounts of our use of the Apple Watch to analyse a new type of ludic labour that has emerged in recent years, in which leisure activities are redefined in terms of work and quantifiable data. Wearable devices like the Apple Watch encourage us to share data about ourselves and our activities, dividing our attention in everyday contexts as ‘quasi-objects’ that need our input to hybridise work and play,…
Co - Producing Mobilities: Negotiating geographical knowledge in a conference session on the move
In an experimental session entitled Co-Producing Mobilities held at the 2014 Royal Geographical Society-Institute of British Geographers Annual Conference, 20 mobility scholars travelled around London on foot, by bus and by Tube to investigate how mobilities could be considered co-produced. In this paper, 18 participants reflect on this collaborative experiment and on how it influenced their thinking about mobilities, geographical knowledge and p…
In-Between Mobile Maps and Media: Movement
This article moves beyond the textuality of the map to focus on the way in which mobile mapping is constructed discursively, semiotically, and experientially. It centers on the autoethnographic and reflective experience of the researcher analyzing video and Global Positioning System (GPS) recordings of walking interviews, during which the interviewees conversed about, and engaged in, mobile mapping practices. This reductive process can be conside…
Small moments in Spatial Big Data: Calculability, authority and interoperability in everyday mobile mapping
This article considers how Spatial Big Data is situated and produced through embodied spatial experiences as data processes appear and act in small moments on mobile phone applications and other digital spatial technologies. Locating Spatial Big Data in the historical and geographical contexts of Sydney and Hong Kong, it traces how situated knowledges mediate and moderate the rising potency of discourses of cartographic reason and data logics as …
Small moments in Spatial Big Data: Calculability, authority and interoperability in everyday mobile mapping
This article considers how Spatial Big Data is situated and produced through embodied spatial experiences as data processes appear and act in small moments on mobile phone applications and other digital spatial technologies. Locating Spatial Big Data in the historical and geographical contexts of Sydney and Hong Kong, it traces how situated knowledges mediate and moderate the rising potency of discourses of cartographic reason and data logics as …
"Smart" Discourses, the Limits of Representation, and New Regimes of Spatial Data
As "smart" urbanism becomes more influential, spaces and places are increasingly represented through numeric and categorical data that have been gathered by sensors, devices, and people. Such systems purportedly provide access to always visible, measurable, and knowable spaces, facilitating ever more rational management and planning. Smart city spaces are thus governed through the algorithmic administration and categorization of difference and st…
I am he. I am he. Siri rules’: Work and play with the Apple Watch
In this article, we will use autoethnographic accounts of our use of the Apple Watch to analyse a new type of ludic labour that has emerged in recent years, in which leisure activities are redefined in terms of work and quantifiable data. Wearable devices like the Apple Watch encourage us to share data about ourselves and our activities, dividing our attention in everyday contexts as ‘quasi-objects’ that need our input to hybridise work and play,…
In-Between Mobile Maps and Media: Movement
This article moves beyond the textuality of the map to focus on the way in which mobile mapping is constructed discursively, semiotically, and experientially. It centers on the autoethnographic and reflective experience of the researcher analyzing video and Global Positioning System (GPS) recordings of walking interviews, during which the interviewees conversed about, and engaged in, mobile mapping practices. This reductive process can be conside…
Terra infirma: On the base map in urban cartography and GIS
This article investigates the ways in which base maps are a fundamental, but under-recognised, starting point for planners, architects, cartographers and geographic information scientists in urban spatial planning and decision-making contexts. Focusing on the case study of a collaborative mapping project with the Wood Street Commons, an unhoused community in West Oakland, it contends that base maps create a cartographic terra infirma, fundamental…
Ruins of the smart city: A visual intervention
The visual imaginary of the future city is increasingly dichotomized between visions of hyper-technological digital urbanism and the city in a state of ruin, without people, overtaken by nature. These alternating imaginaries key into concerns over urban futures, as questions of sustainability and rising inequality come to bear on urban life. Such binary imaginaries produce volumes of visual material, lauding and critiquing philosophies of newness…
Co - Producing Mobilities: Negotiating geographical knowledge in a conference session on the move
In an experimental session entitled Co-Producing Mobilities held at the 2014 Royal Geographical Society-Institute of British Geographers Annual Conference, 20 mobility scholars travelled around London on foot, by bus and by Tube to investigate how mobilities could be considered co-produced. In this paper, 18 participants reflect on this collaborative experiment and on how it influenced their thinking about mobilities, geographical knowledge and p…
Digital Twin or Digital Kin: Misunderstandings and Myths about Urban Simulation, and Directions for Change
Using three case studies from the United States and Australia, this article explores the conditions required to make urban digital twin projects successful, considering a traditional urban digital twins (UDT) project and National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded 3D gaming digital twins in New York and a large-scale federated UDT platform in New South Wales (NSW) Australia. The authors argue that questions around interoperability and profit and ten…
Beyond open access: Book publishing in a metric culture
This short commentary responds to Gandy's (2023) piece ‘Books under threat: Open access publishing and the neo‐liberal academy’. It argues that the requirement for open access in UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) grants does not mark a major turning point in academic publishing, but rather is simply the latest trend in a series of changes which have seen academic inequalities redistributed under a metric culture
From the urban factory to the metaverse: Understanding datafication, spatial computing and digital twinning practices
This article considers digital twins and digital twinning practices in relation to the spaces of the factory, city, and the “metaverse.” We draw on the work of urban and new media theorists to argue that digital twins are part of a long history of urban media and computation. Expanding on Walter Benjamin’s notion of phantasmagoria, we argue that the logics of the factory inherent in early digital twins are intensified and expanded in the more rec…
Critical computation on a geographical register
This commentary lays out a framework for building on early critical cartographic and critical geographic information system work to develop a critical approach for the computational future of geographical thought and praxis. Computation – as a highly representational and structural form which combines speech and action – is a very particular way of building worlds. As computation becomes more prevalent in critiques of deep fakes, GeoAI, and platf…
Co - Producing Mobilities: Negotiating geographical knowledge in a conference session on the move
In an experimental session entitled Co-Producing Mobilities held at the 2014 Royal Geographical Society-Institute of British Geographers Annual Conference, 20 mobility scholars travelled around London on foot, by bus and by Tube to investigate how mobilities could be considered co-produced. In this paper, 18 participants reflect on this collaborative experiment and on how it influenced their thinking about mobilities, geographical knowledge and p…
In-Between Mobile Maps and Media: Movement
This article moves beyond the textuality of the map to focus on the way in which mobile mapping is constructed discursively, semiotically, and experientially. It centers on the autoethnographic and reflective experience of the researcher analyzing video and Global Positioning System (GPS) recordings of walking interviews, during which the interviewees conversed about, and engaged in, mobile mapping practices. This reductive process can be conside…
Small moments in Spatial Big Data: Calculability, authority and interoperability in everyday mobile mapping
This article considers how Spatial Big Data is situated and produced through embodied spatial experiences as data processes appear and act in small moments on mobile phone applications and other digital spatial technologies. Locating Spatial Big Data in the historical and geographical contexts of Sydney and Hong Kong, it traces how situated knowledges mediate and moderate the rising potency of discourses of cartographic reason and data logics as …
I am he. I am he. Siri rules’: Work and play with the Apple Watch
In this article, we will use autoethnographic accounts of our use of the Apple Watch to analyse a new type of ludic labour that has emerged in recent years, in which leisure activities are redefined in terms of work and quantifiable data. Wearable devices like the Apple Watch encourage us to share data about ourselves and our activities, dividing our attention in everyday contexts as ‘quasi-objects’ that need our input to hybridise work and play,…
Time for mapping: Cartographic temporalities
The digital era has brought about huge transformations in the map itself, which to date have been largely conceptualised in spatial terms. Novel objects, forms, processes and approaches have emerged and pose new, pressing questions about the temporality of digital maps and contemporary mapping practices: in spite of its implicit spatiality, digital mapping is strongly grounded in time. This collection brings time back into the map, taking up Dore…
Ruins of the smart city: A visual intervention
The visual imaginary of the future city is increasingly dichotomized between visions of hyper-technological digital urbanism and the city in a state of ruin, without people, overtaken by nature. These alternating imaginaries key into concerns over urban futures, as questions of sustainability and rising inequality come to bear on urban life. Such binary imaginaries produce volumes of visual material, lauding and critiquing philosophies of newness…
"Smart" Discourses, the Limits of Representation, and New Regimes of Spatial Data
As "smart" urbanism becomes more influential, spaces and places are increasingly represented through numeric and categorical data that have been gathered by sensors, devices, and people. Such systems purportedly provide access to always visible, measurable, and knowable spaces, facilitating ever more rational management and planning. Smart city spaces are thus governed through the algorithmic administration and categorization of difference and st…
Critical computation on a geographical register
This commentary lays out a framework for building on early critical cartographic and critical geographic information system work to develop a critical approach for the computational future of geographical thought and praxis. Computation – as a highly representational and structural form which combines speech and action – is a very particular way of building worlds. As computation becomes more prevalent in critiques of deep fakes, GeoAI, and platf…
Terra infirma: On the base map in urban cartography and GIS
This article investigates the ways in which base maps are a fundamental, but under-recognised, starting point for planners, architects, cartographers and geographic information scientists in urban spatial planning and decision-making contexts. Focusing on the case study of a collaborative mapping project with the Wood Street Commons, an unhoused community in West Oakland, it contends that base maps create a cartographic terra infirma, fundamental…
Expanding the city digital twin in the context of crisis, cartography and computation
This commentary responds to Gillian Rose's ‘Visualising human life in volumetric cities: city digital twins and other disasters’ as a framework for thinking about crisis and visual cultures in digital twinning practices. It frames Rose's analysis as a specific intervention into the visual and cultural relationship between filmic depictions of disaster and catastrophe replicated through white and masculinist imaginaries of the ordered rational cit…
Digital Twin or Digital Kin: Misunderstandings and Myths about Urban Simulation, and Directions for Change
Using three case studies from the United States and Australia, this article explores the conditions required to make urban digital twin projects successful, considering a traditional urban digital twins (UDT) project and National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded 3D gaming digital twins in New York and a large-scale federated UDT platform in New South Wales (NSW) Australia. The authors argue that questions around interoperability and profit and ten…
Beyond open access: Book publishing in a metric culture
This short commentary responds to Gandy's (2023) piece ‘Books under threat: Open access publishing and the neo‐liberal academy’. It argues that the requirement for open access in UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) grants does not mark a major turning point in academic publishing, but rather is simply the latest trend in a series of changes which have seen academic inequalities redistributed under a metric culture
From the urban factory to the metaverse: Understanding datafication, spatial computing and digital twinning practices
This article considers digital twins and digital twinning practices in relation to the spaces of the factory, city, and the “metaverse.” We draw on the work of urban and new media theorists to argue that digital twins are part of a long history of urban media and computation. Expanding on Walter Benjamin’s notion of phantasmagoria, we argue that the logics of the factory inherent in early digital twins are intensified and expanded in the more rec…
Computer Science (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Geography (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Art (4 works) · Cartography (4 works) · Geographic Information Systems Studies (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Smart Cities and Technologies (4 works) · Data science (3 works)