The Global Lab

The Global Lab is a podcast about cities, global connectivity and the impact of technology produced by the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (UCL-CASA). Founded by Martin Zaltz Austwick and Steven Gray with a UCL Beacon Bursary grant.

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Episodes

Risk and Crisis Management

Faced with more and more unfamiliar hazards, planners and governments want to know whether their preparations are sufficient. Citizens are increasingly asking the same questions. We hear from Dr Hitomi Nakanishi (University of Canberra) and Dr Sarah Wise (UCL CASA) on how new kinds of simulation can be used to help people understand evacuation, and how different approaches to crisis management might produce different outcomes. We also hear from Rangga Wargadalam, a PhD student at the University ...

Oct 11, 2020•45 min

Seeing Cities

Our theme for this episode is “Seeing Cities”. We hear about two very different ways of looking at a city, making connections across space and time, and allowing us to understand the urban environment and its history in new and unexpected ways. We visited Queen Mary University to talk to two art historians whose work is bound up with these issues. We hear from Hannah Williams, on how digital mapping has allowed her to unearth surprising patterns in the art world of eighteenth century Paris (www....

Oct 21, 2019•29 min

The Sound of the Strikes

In February and March, many Universities across the United Kingdom were affected by the largest wave of industrial action to hit the sector for many years. For this episode of the Global Lab, we spoke to Tony Brown and Sean Wallis from UCL's University and College Union branch about why the strikes took place. To give you a sense of what it felt like to be out on the streets during the dispute, we conducted interviews on the picket line and made binaural audio recordings of the two marches that ...

Jun 20, 2018•33 min

The Global Lab - The Gernsback Continuum

As part of a new strand for the Global Lab, this month's podcast features a roundtable discussion with researchers from CASA about the relationship between Science Fiction and technology. The short story discussed in this episode, "The Gernsbach Continuum" by William Gibson, is available to read here: https://web.archive.org/web/20070217183337/http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/it/1988/1/1988_1_34.shtml --- Produced by Bonnie Buyuklieva, Thomas Oléron Evans, Duncan Hay, and Sarah ...

Feb 12, 2018•21 min

Global Lab - Hidden in Plain Sight

We spot some of the biggies hidden right before our eyes. Featuring Tim Causer, Max Colson, and Alex Mankoo. --- Produced by Martin Zaltz Austwick, Hannah Sender, and Oliver Marsh. --- Visit http://thegloballab.com or follow us on twitter @thegloballab.

Nov 07, 2016•47 min

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