Drone Futures : UAS for Landscape & Urban Design
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The University of Lancaster
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 262946428
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- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Routledge
- ISBN
- 9780815380511
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- July
- Year of publication
- 2020
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Drone Futures is a critical and timely investigation into the emerging positive applications of drones for climate change and the environment and their links with historical geographic imaginaries. The author argues that it is essential to understand the changing relationship between robotics, designers and place and the future trajectory of designed places of tomorrow. The work responds to Garrett & Anderson’s urgent call for further investigation by geographers and human geographers in the drone’s agency for geographical imagination (Garrett and Anderson, 2018). The majority of previous research in this field has fixed on surveillance states and military conflict rather than exploring drones as part of a medium of a geographical imaginary of place, on which this work concentrates. The book charts early aerial imaginaries from Eugene Henard (1907) and Frank-Lloyd Wright to popular media such as Blade Runner. The author is a registered drone operator and dissemination included a UAV Technical Note for the Landscape Institute (2017), an article in BIM Today (2019), a contribution to the POSTNotes parliamentary brief on Civilian Drones (2020), and a book chapter on the aesthetics of drone photography (2020). Guest talks were presented at the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Show, Edexcel (2019) and Leeds School of Architecture (2020). The author's work based on Chapter 4 featured in a lecture at Digital Cities for Change (DC2), University of Cambridge (2020). Media appearances include ITV News, when drones halted flights and shut down East Midlands Airport, July 2019. Chapter 4 also forms the basis of Lancaster City Information Model for Lancaster Council – an open data set of 3D GIS for multiple applications including council planning using drone mapping amongst other methods. Further dissemination activities involve participation in the Association of Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (ARPAS) in the UK.
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- Non-English
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