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Urban Media Archaeology 2011

This is the website for the Fall 2011 "Urban Media Archaeology" graduate seminar-studio, taught by Shannon Mattern and Rory Solomon at The New School.

  • Course Information
  • Schedule and Readings
  • Assignments
  • Maps

Presentation Schedule + Due Date for Final Map

December 8, 2011 Shannon Class Announcement

Although you’ll have until Monday, 12/19, to finalize your projects, some of you will start presenting your almost-finished projects on Wednesday, the 14th. About Your

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Final Presentations & Evaluation

December 2, 2011 Shannon Class Announcement

Image: Bryan Coston, Kodak Cavalcade Couple, via Flickr CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 We’ll depart a bit from our original schedule and spread out our final presentations

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Murals in East Harlem: Final Process Blog

December 20, 2011 laragheintz Uncategorized

I wanted to take this chance to clarify my project since I feel like I presented it so poorly yesterday. Looking back on this whole

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Youth Media Map: Final Process Blog

December 20, 2011 Alexandra Process Blog

Explaining my project to the class last night was a good way to practice explaining a significant body of research on Young Filmaker’s Foundation.  The

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What is the [plot] point?

December 20, 2011 Alexandra Process Blog

I’ll admit it…I’m an artifact fiend.  Gathering interviews and other primary source material for this project has been the most exciting aspect for me.  There’s

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Evaluating My Atlantic Yards Media Actors Map

December 20, 2011 duncan Process Blog

[In order for this to make sense, please first check out my final Atlantic Yards map, linked above and here] My original project proposal says,

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The Wrap Up – Final Process Blog

December 20, 2011 Lres Process Blog

At the end of the whole URTing process I am very pleased with how things turned out. I think that for the majority of the

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End of Semester Bug

December 19, 2011 jjmaxwell Process Blog

As the semester comes to a close and all of us are ready to present our final URT presentations, of course with my luck my

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The Bell System and The Story of Telephony

December 19, 2011 Maria Process Blog

With the famous exchange between Alexander Graham Bell and his assistant, Thomas Watson in 1876, an industry came into being. The history of the Bell

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Final Thoughts

December 19, 2011 Farah Process Blog

In finishing up this project, I find myself wanting to stay with this research as exploring both the past and present independent bookstores has been

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Final reflections….

December 19, 2011 Maria Process Blog

This has been a very challenging experience. This was the first time that I ever thought about mapping arguments. Previously, I had a rather narrowed

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15 weeks later the assessment kicks in

December 19, 2011 fishmatt33 Process Blog

I remember my first thought was to document every movie theater that existed in Manhattan prior to discussing this topic with Shannon.  But one quick

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