Erase the Border is a project that took place on the US-Mexico border in May 2012 and continues on the Internet. In May 2012, O’odham activist/artist Ofelia Rivas and I worked with a group of Tohono O’odham youth from the village of Ali Jegk to create a symbolic action to […]
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Carlo Ratti, Director of the Senseable City Lab introduces the conference. This is the annual Senseable Cities conference run in partnership with the Economist magazine. During the Urban Code conference, panelists and attendees will address how big urban data is impacting cities, urban systems and urban communities. You can monitor […]
Nitin Sawhney is a graduate of the MIT Media Lab and taught in the Art, Culture Technology program at MIT. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the New School in New York City, and a research affiliate with the Center for Civic Media. Nitin starts by showing […]
Last week in Intro to Civic Media we addressed political economy and propaganda in relation to the media. We began with Marxist and post-Marxist ideas of “base” (those people and things that gird the system in the form of physical labor and natural resources) and “superstructure” (those people and things […]
We are kicking off our Fall series of Civic Lunches with a talk by James Rojas. James is an urban planner, activist, and artist, who uses participatory processes for community based design, has facilitated hundreds of workshops, created many dioramas linked to the built environment, and done lots of work […]