The Commission on Map Design has joined with the Commissions on Cognitive Visualization, Geovisialization, and Use and User Issues for a pre-conference workshop ahead of the International Cartographic Conference in Rio, August 2015. This will take place on August 21, 2015 at the Paraná Federal University (UFPR) in Curitiba, Brazil.

“The leadership of the ICA commissions believes that it is time to consider the cartographic research landscape as a whole, along with its relationships to cognate fields (e.g., computer science, information visualization, user experience research, cognitive science & psychology), in order to identify areas of research that could benefit from our collective efforts. The workshop will take the first step towards producing a research agenda that reflects current challenges and to define how, as a group, we could tackle them.”

Please see the full announcement on the workshop web page and consider getting involved to establish a platform for defining and addressing ‘big problems’ in cartography.