- February 17, 2023
- Michelle LeBlanc and Sharon Hessney
“What’s Going On in This Graph?”: The Power of Noticing and Wondering
An interview with Sharon Hessney
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- February 3, 2023
- LMEC Staff
Spotlighting the work of our teen curators
For our new rotating exhibition, Building Blocks: Boston Stories from Urban Atlases, the Leventhal Center hired and worked with three high school students from Boston Public Schools as teen curators.
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- January 27, 2023
- Patricio Pino
An Interview with Patricio Pino
An interview with Spring 2023 Northeastern co-op, Patricio Pino
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- January 18, 2023
- Laura Lee Schmidt
A Curatorial Commentary on Building Blocks: Boston Stories from Urban Atlases
Exhibition Curatorial Fellow Laura Lee Schmidt dives into our ongoing Building Blocks exhibition
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- January 11, 2023
- Richard Pegg
Korean Yeojido Atlases
How did Korean cartography evolve in the Joseon period? Explore this interactive Map Chat from the MacLean Collection to learn more about a fascinating collection of atlases.
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- January 8, 2023
- Ezra Acevedo
Where The Water Was
One-sixth of Boston sits on land that was once tidal estuaries, shallow marshes, and mud flats.
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- December 16, 2022
- Ezra Acevedo
An Atlas of My Hometown: Georeferencing Familiar Places
A behind the scenes look at the process of georeferencing
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- December 7, 2022
- Ian Spangler
The two ways to make something louder
How noise pollutes even when nobody’s listening
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- November 6, 2022
- Ian Spangler
How well do you know your Massachusetts towns?
Silly games can open new windows into map collections
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- October 21, 2022
- Tess D. McCann
Always Devoted to Such Use: Sacrifice Zones and Storage on the Boston-Revere Border
A new logistics center in Revere tells a familiar story and poses the question: how inextricable is land use from the land itself?
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