This document appears to be from a lecture course on bodies and buildings. It discusses concepts like governmentality, how architecture regulates lives, and how food and transportation systems shape cities. It addresses topics such as urban planning history, housing development, homelessness, and sustainable solutions. The assignment is to map a system, identify a problem within it, and propose pulling a lever to address the problem by accessing necessary resources.
Reading the Tea Leaves: Global Trends and Opportunities for Tomorrow's MuseumsRobert J. Stein
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As our society becomes increasingly more intertwined, it is evident that global trends that once seemed remote are having a deep impact on our local communities. These same trends play out in museums around the globe as we reflect our communities both past and present. The museum audience is inherently submerged in this current of cultural change. Without pretending to predict the entire future, there are strong signals that a few important global trends will persist. What are those trends and how can museums begin to take advantage of those likely shifts to promote, advocate, and enhance their relevance to a global audience?
Future of London 2018 Conference (mid-morning panels & Proposals for London)futureoflondon
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Justinien Tribillon, Writer and Urbanist
Jeannette Veldkamp, Chapman Taylor
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Matthew Dibben, LB Brent
Theresa Dugbatey, LB Hackney
Charles Glover-Short, Optivo
Ellen Storrar, GLA
Claire Perrott, Tibbalds
The phenomenon of urbanisation, especially suburbanisation, is observed monolithically worldwide, but in a rippling wave like vogue. It trickles down vertically and diffuses out horizontally from the developed to the developing areasand from central to the peripheral regions, respectively. No economically progressing country has ever been able to avert its occurrence, which is inevitable and challenging. The daunting task of intelligently designing and confirming sanity and sustainability for an urban canvas is a multidimensional and multi / cross disciplinary endeavour. This demands retrospective understanding of the place and its people; anticipatory sense to forecast and strategize; and awareness about the practices worldwide and indigenous. Civilizations have always been civilized because of their informed and active citizens, who have come forth to the rescue of theirlands of origin and fellow natives. Representation of this kind can be cited in the Garden City and City Beautiful movements of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, followed by many similar smaller and bigger experiments to the formal school of thought of urbanism, called “New Urbanism”.Many experiments happened under the wide umbrella of New Urbanism and garden city movement across the globe. From Great Britain, to the USA, Abu Dhabi and India, all have witnessed and / or are undergoing the sweeping dynamism in thought and action, for the pursuit of urban revamp and sustainability. This piece of research is an attempt towards compiling and evaluating such utopian models, taking cases from different countries, from different time periods, that have aimed at urban amelioration. The paper considers four cases of Masdar City (Abu Dhabi), Letchworth City (U.K), Disney Celebration Community (U.S.A.) and Magarpatta City (India) to showcase people’s experiments with truth for urban sustainability.
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Embracing GenAI - A Strategic ImperativePeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
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2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/iateflwebinar2024
Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
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Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
Macroeconomics- Movie Location
This will be used as part of your Personal Professional Portfolio once graded.
Objective:
Prepare a presentation or a paper using research, basic comparative analysis, data organization and application of economic information. You will make an informed assessment of an economic climate outside of the United States to accomplish an entertainment industry objective.
A Strategic Approach: GenAI in EducationPeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
Digital Tools and AI for Teaching Learning and Research
Bodies and Buildings NYU ITP 11 24 2014
1. BODIES &
BUILDINGS
NYU ITP LECTURE COURSE SPRING 2014
NOVEMBER 24, 2014
JEN VAN DER MEER @JENVANDERMEER WWW.JENVANDERMEER.COM
2. ASSIGNMENT
Concept development:
Now that you have identified a problem, how will you solve
it?
Who will your solution address?
What levers do you need to pull?
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7. HOW DOES CHANGE
HAPPEN?
How do we regulate basic aspsects of our lives through
design, intentional interactions, architecture of the built
environment.
Who will get to draw the blue prints for the connected city?
How do we manage the risks of innovation to our bodies, and
to our earth?
We look at architecture as a global metaphor – to see how
substantial cultural trends are adopted, what is valued, what
is our connection to history, what do we see in the future.
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9. GOVERNMENTALITY
Foucault:
The combination of protocols, rules, structures, and
institutions through which our desire to be governed is
cultivated and channeled.
The happens not only through the state – but also through
the mechanisms that mediate power to regulate our conduct.
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10. GOVERNMENTALITY
Mitchell Dean
Governmentality works through a multiplicity of public and
private agencies, standards, forms of knowledge, effects,
outcomes, and consequences.
“mobile, changing, and contingent assemblages”
continuially ‘constructred, assembled, contested, and
transformed.”
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11. MIDDLING MODERNISM
Paul Rabinow
A middle ground where social technicians areculate the
norm.
Seeking to find scientific and practical solutions to public
problems.
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14. HOW FOOD SHAPES OUR
CITIES
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Carolyn Steele: City of Ur – argritculture and urbanism
15. HOW FOOD SHAPES OUR
CITIES
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And as you can see from these maps of London, in the 90
years after the trains came, it goes from being a little blob
that was quite easy to feed by animals coming in on foot, and
so on, to a large splurge, that would be very, very difficult to
feed with anybody on foot, either animals or people. And of
course that was just the beginning. After the trains came
cars, and really this marks the end of this process. It’s the
final emancipation of the city from any apparent relationship
with nature at all.
31. ANTI SUBURBANISM
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The problem with the suburbs is the same problem as the
city: they had a bad 5 or 6 decades of urban design. Cities in
the same period saw urban renewal, mostly mediocre
architecture, replacement of buildings with surface parking
lots, and a general hollowing out. It’s not because it’s the city
that this is a problem, it’s because there were some terrible
design (planning, engineering) memes out there which got
implemented as policy, while operating in a market that just
had no taste.
David Levinson at Streets.mn
35. HOMELESSNESS NYC 2014
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In 2014, the number of homeless people in the city reached
67,810, with all but about 3,000 living in shelters, slightly
higher than the 64,060 recorded the previous year. In 2010,
when the federal government expanded its efforts to address
homelessness, there were 53,187 homeless people in New
York.
More than half of the city’s homeless population, 41,633
people, were in families, all of them living in shelters
. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/31/nyregion/homelessness-rose-in-new-york.html?_r=0
36. SUBURBAN
HOMELESSNESS
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http://confrontingsuburbanpoverty.org/2014/08/homelessness-among-students-is-up-sharply-in-the-suburbs/
38. ASSIGNMENT
Final project:
What is the problem?
What is the system, mapped?
What lever will you pull?
What resources do you need?
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Editor's Notes
“It all starts on local farms with waste corn stalks,” says Sam Harrington of Ecovative, who will help build this year’s winning entry for the MoMA PS1 Young Architect’s Program. Hy-Fi, designed by the New York-based firm The Living, will be made of bricks that are entirely organic and ultimately, compostable. A good chunk of that material is corn stalks, stained clay-red with an organic dye from Shabd Simon-Alexander and Audrey Louisere. The rest is mycelium—mushroom roots to you and me—that will hold the corn stalks together as they cohere into a molded shape. The technology, developed by Ecovative in 2007, has so far been used as a packaging material. “But we love the chance to try something bold, and that’s what PS1 is all about,” Harrington says.
The original cold storage warehouse designed by William G. Preson 8.22.1882
Ambrogio Lorenzetti’s “Allegory of Good Government.” It’s about the relationship between the city and the countryside. And I think the message of this is very clear. If the city looks after the country, the country will look after the city.
Ambrogio Lorenzetti’s “Allegory of Good Government.” It’s about the relationship between the city and the countryside. And I think the message of this is very clear. If the city looks after the country, the country will look after the city.
Ambrogio Lorenzetti’s “Allegory of Good Government.” It’s about the relationship between the city and the countryside. And I think the message of this is very clear. If the city looks after the country, the country will look after the city.
Ambrogio Lorenzetti’s “Allegory of Good Government.” It’s about the relationship between the city and the countryside. And I think the message of this is very clear. If the city looks after the country, the country will look after the city.
Ambrogio Lorenzetti’s “Allegory of Good Government.” It’s about the relationship between the city and the countryside. And I think the message of this is very clear. If the city looks after the country, the country will look after the city.
Ambrogio Lorenzetti’s “Allegory of Good Government.” It’s about the relationship between the city and the countryside. And I think the message of this is very clear. If the city looks after the country, the country will look after the city.