While entering the final stretch of creating my map, I'm finding that curation is my biggest challenge. In the early stages of my project, I imagined my map to be a database. Even though I quickly narrowed down the number ...Read More
I have spent some time over the past week creating my records and mapping the buildings I want to show on the map. I've almost mapped all the buildings. Overall, I've plotted most of the "stories" I mentioned in my ...Read More
Hello Class, I’d just like to share with you some material/thoughts/curiosities that I discovered during my research that won’t make it to the final cut, yet I find them to be interesting. SOURCES OF RESEARCH/LEARNING The value of the delivery menus as a ...Read More
Before I begin to create my map using the URT tool, I need to develop a method for my record types. These record types will help determine how the layers of my argument will come together to tell a story. ...Read More
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="396" caption="The Transit Museum is at the corner of Boerum Place & Schermerhorn Street. The archives are across the street at 130 Livingston. Image via http://www.inetours.com/New_York/Brooklyn/photos/Entrance.html"][/caption] On Friday, I visited the archives of the New York Transit museum ...Read More
WEDNESDAY 12/15 We'll recap our criteria for evaluating multimodal student work + critiquing maps. We'll do a few rounds of peer critique on one another's work and, in the process, identify some possible connections between our individual projects that could be the ...Read More
I must say that this week was a real breakthrough for me! I realize that it is a bit late in the game but in my mind, better late than never. Basically, as I was practicing on the tool that we ...Read More
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="360" caption="The perfect metaphor for the need to be still when wading through lots of research! (Photo by Flickr user ex_magician)"][/caption] At this time last week, I was feeling overwhelmed by the amount of content I had and ...Read More
After narrowing down my data set, I started to sketch out the social and material networks of specific zines based on the data -- not by geographic points, but by connections. As expected, I found that the zine titles that ...Read More
Projects: Attidutes & Lattitudes - user generated stories of LGBT experience and how this is affected by location: Nathan Becker & Leif Percifeld Sharpening the Dhar(avi) - iPad application to measure flows of Dharavi residents: Janvi Sanjay Mody & Simoni Bhansali Faith Cloud ...Read More