PROJECTS







#PB

Asking the Public for Ideas

Live assembly

Collecting Ideas in Real Time

UMATI

Collecting Transport Data from the Crowd

STORY BOARD

Collecting Personal Narrative to Teach

FUTUREFRONT

Texting Ideas for Vacant Store Fronts

Local Lotto

Mapping Personal Narratives

Transit Voice!

Collection personal Narrative to Teach

Fresh Food Boston

Urban Mapping Game

CrashStories

Mapping Bike Crashes and Unsafe Streets

Farm This

Suggested Ideas for Vacant Lots

The Brownsville Loop

Mapping Safe Places

School Food For Thought

Developing a Better Food Menu

Million Dollar Fix

Civic Idea Generation campaign

Mother Gaston’s Brownsville Corner Stories

Text Message Story Telling Platform

Food Mapping

Mapping Neighborhood Fresh Food Spots

Fashion Secrets NYC

Collection Neighborhood Perceptions

Fashion Proximity

Mapping Daily Work Activity

BikeCuriousNYC

A Social Network for Bikers

Green Arrow

Community Tool for Health Living

Eating Healthy

Managing Healthy Eating Strategies

RESOURCES

The 'Crowd Sourced City' course is coupled with a series of workshops that introduces the fundamentals of programming, web mapping, and resources that allow students to hack into technology. Check on the time-line to see the tutorials.

SYLLABUS 2015

TEAM


CURRENT TEACHING TEAM


Sarah Williams

Class Professor

Sarah Williams is currently an Assistant Professor of Urban Planning and the Director of the Civic Data Design Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Mike Foster

Workshop Instructor

Mike Foster is a GIS/Data Visualization Specialist with DUSP, he teaches the 'Web Mapping Workshop' in correlation to the 'Crowd Sourced City' Class.

PAST TEACHING TEAM


Georgia Bullen 2011, 2013
Cressica Brazier 2013


SPECIAL THANKS TO CLIENTS


ERASE RACISM 2015
Digital Matatus 2015
Participatory Budgeting Project 2011, 2015
Operation Paydirt 2015
MiLES 2013
Community Labor United 2013
Boston Office of New Urban Mechanics and the Office of Food Initiatives 2013
City Digits 2013
Transportation Alternatives 2010, 2011
Design Trust for Public Space 2011
Brownsville Partnerships 2010, 2011
New York City Public School: MS328 2010, 2011
New York City Department of Mental Health and Hygiene 2010


THANKS


Josh Sheldon and Felicia Kamriani who work with App Inventor, and provided a workshop and supported the student’s development of prototype applications for Android phones.

Fai Walker, an experiential learning expert, who worked with us during 2010 and 2011 to figure out how to integrate the work of the class into New York City Public School MS328 in Harlem.

Wei Yeh Lee, from Navteq, who sponsored the class development during the first year 2010.

contact


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