{"id":5524,"date":"2026-05-14T11:26:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T15:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/?post_type=profiles&#038;p=5524"},"modified":"2026-08-10T12:18:44","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T16:18:44","slug":"ari-hammond","status":"publish","type":"profiles","link":"https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/profiles\/ari-hammond\/","title":{"rendered":"Ari Hammond"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/Hammond-Ari-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"by Corban Swain\" class=\"wp-image-5599\" style=\"width:200px;height:auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">by Corban Swain<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><strong>Georgia Institute of Technology<\/strong><br>Faculty Advisor: Prof. Fabio Duarte<br>Department: Urban Studies and Planning<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:0px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BIO: Ari Hammond is a rising junior majoring in Computational Media at the Georgia<br>Institute of Technology. Their work uses research-through-design to examine how Black queer<br>and feminist approaches to information and interaction design can promote critical engagement<br>with data, archives, and digital technologies. During MSRP, under the supervision of Dr. Fabio<br>Duarte, Ari investigated how ArcGIS, a digital mapping tool, can be used to showcase Black<br>women&#8217;s geographies in Cambridge, MA. Through a series of interviews with Black women<br>around Cambridge, Ari identified key routes, locations, and activities that reveal how these<br>women live and interact with the city. This work builds upon their previous research by<br>drawing cross-disciplinary connections between design, human geography, feminist studies,<br>and urban studies. Ari is currently seeking further research opportunities in critical information<br>visualization and interaction design, particularly related to spatial justice, as they prepare for<br>graduate school applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><br><strong>Black Women\u2019s Cambridge: A Case Study on Critical GIS and Black<br>Feminist Geographies<\/strong><br>Ari Hammond1, Fabio Duarte2<br>1School of Literature, Media, and Communication, Georgia Institute of Technology<br>2Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\">Black feminist geographies examine how Black women\u2019s intersectional identities shape their<br>imagination, organization, and conception of space. These geographies explain how the bodily and<br>emotional experiences of race and gender are expressed in and reinforced by landscapes.<br>However, they are obscured or ignored in traditional geographic practices. While previous work in<br>counter-cartography and feminist GIS examines how feminist geographies may reorient dominant<br>practices, namely visualization, to create more critical, subjective representations of<br>geography, this body of work pays minimal attention to race and intersectionality. In this study, we<br>use a research-through-design methodology to locate and visualize Black women\u2019s geographies in<br>ArcGIS, extending previous arguments in feminist GIS to highlight Black feminist geographies.<br>Through a thematic analysis of oral histories of eight Black Cantabrigian women, supplemented<br>by archival records and existing GIS data from the City of Cambridge, we identified emotions<br>about, experiences with, and understandings of space in these women\u2019s accounts of the Cambridge<br>landscape. The resulting ArcGIS visualization, composed of maps and multimedia information,<br>offers an alternative geographic perspective on race, class, leisure, and development in the city of<br>Cambridge; the accompanying design documentation explores how using ArcGIS with\/for Black<br>feminist geographies reveals new design patterns and possibilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","profile_category":[25],"class_list":["post-5524","profiles","type-profiles","status-publish","hentry","profile_category-2026-interns"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profiles\/5524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profiles"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profiles"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profiles\/5524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5714,"href":"https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profiles\/5524\/revisions\/5714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"profile_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile_category?post=5524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}