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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

Author: sienna

A Self-Evaluation

December 17, 2011 sienna Process Blog

For my final process blog, I want to reflect on the process of creating the map itself, specifically on what I learned from the process and from the

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A Concrete Example (finally!)

November 30, 2011 sienna Process Blog

I can finally say, with a high degree of certainty, that I will have, by the first week of December, a substantial amount of images

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Map Critique

November 16, 2011 sienna Map Critique

For the map critique assignment, I chose a disaster map, the Radio Distress Signalling and Infocommunications’ Emergency Disaster and Information Service map. Initially, it reminded

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Attempts at Clarifying, Refining and Forming a Useful Argument

November 4, 2011 sienna Process Blog

I think, due in part to my staggering lack of presence and almost paralyzing fear of public speaking, and to the unfinished nature of my

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Manhattan Street Sign Project Proposal

October 29, 2011 sienna Project Proposal

For my final map project, I will be examining Manhattan street signs over the past century. Over the last century, New York City street signs

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Inching Towards Progress

October 29, 2011 sienna Process Blog

My first post made it clear to me that I needed to define precisely what I was looking for; now it is clear that I

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Searching for Signs in Blind Alleys

October 13, 2011 sienna Process Blog

  I had, what I thought, was a great idea. My grandparents have almost every National Geographic since 1962, and an index in which I

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