IAP 2015 Activities by Sponsor - Urban Studies and Planning

Mike Foster

Jan/22

Thu

12:00PM-01:00PM

9-255

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up

This short session is designed to introduce some basic principles that beginning designers can follow. The principles are developed to serve a broad level, and help those designing posters, graphic logos and infographics, maps, and page layout. Amongst the principle include choosing colors, properly balancing items on your page, and staying on 'The Grid'.

Signup: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1z0Q2wZxIeX_LVb067dI786wNQ4FcyUEE0G3pjN3vVkA/viewform

 

Sponsor(s): Urban Studies and Planning
Contact: Mike Foster, mjfoster@mit.edu

Mike Foster

Jan/26

Mon

01:00PM-03:00PM

9-255

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up

This session is designed for beginning web site developers that are starting from scratch. The session will take beginning coders through all the steps, ranging from downloading a text editor to write your code in, setting up an HTML template, to using CSS to style your page, to loading jQuery to add interactivity. The end result will be a basic portfolio webpage you can use to showcase work and projects.

Signup: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1y31FvKwnklzAfoA6WdQXthTbn_6K61CkvOmGEbwi0ys/viewform

Sponsor(s): Urban Studies and Planning
Contact: Mike Foster, mjfoster@mit.edu

Mike Foster

Jan/23

Fri

10:00AM-12:00PM

9-251

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up

Research Posters can be valuable in showcasing your project work and providing quick summaries of vast and large research projects. This session will walk through basics of creating a poster and focus on using the various features and beginner to intermediate level skills of Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign used in conjunction with one another. The concepts of poster design will be manifested through learning the tools of the software.

Signup: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1lpmyLyj0zfwuQxNKEuaZKGSctX726bHCr8KyKSKl6jo/viewform

Sponsor(s): Urban Studies and Planning
Contact: Mike Foster, mjfoster@mit.edu

Mike Foster

Jan/30

Fri

01:00PM-02:00PM

9-255

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up

The web is becoming the prominent way readers interact with maps and spatial data, with rich, informative visualizations and interactive maps becoming a common way to display data and showcase information. This short session is designed to introduce web mapping with Leaflet, a popular open source Javascript mapping library. It will take beginners through converting and uploading a dataset, accessing the Leaflet library, mapping the dataset, and adding basic interaction, such as popups.

Signup: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1lG9wPIs4F37p7v4tRyPt1wI3xO9YUxV9Hg_UxB2l1c0/viewform

Sponsor(s): Urban Studies and Planning
Contact: Mike Foster, mjfoster@mit.edu

Ning Wu

Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions

This one-day course presents students with the investment analysis tool widely used within the oil and gas industry, mainly the upstream, or Exploration and Production (E&P), and teaches students how oil and gas companies make their investment decisions. The course aims to help students understand the core part of the oil and gas business, and assist them in learning more about the investment career in the oil and gas industry. It does not intend to cover every aspect of the deal making or investment in oil and gas.

The course starts with an overview of the oil and industry, and the competition landscape in the US. Then it elaborates on the investment decision system and deal makings in the oil and gas industry, and the decision tool used to conduct investment analysis. As the core part of this course, a case study, 2 Billion US dollars’ investment on shale gas by an international oil major, is adopted to showcase the investment decision analysis and process. This case study can be done by groups and with discussions. Finally, the course will close by open-ended discussion on investment risks and risk management in the oil and gas industry, as well as career in business or investment track in this industry.

Advance sign up at http://goo.gl/forms/ML7G41gFSS.

Sponsor(s): Urban Studies and Planning, Sloan School of Management
Contact: Ning Wu, ningwu30@gmail.com

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Jan/21

Wed

09:00AM-05:00PM

E51-145

Ning Wu

Arlene Ducao

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 12/16
Limited to 16 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions

How can urban planners take advantage of the connected technologies that are starting to transform individual data to massively larger scales in time and space? From smartphones to wearables, from social media to quantified self, the aggregation and geo-location of data is becoming a major part of urban studies and planning.

In this workshop, we'll look at how we can design and deploy with some of the most commonly hackable instruments-- microcontrollers, sensors, and phones-- that collect urban data. The workshop should give students the physical computing resources they need to deploy their own small data collection networks. Unique to this class, we'll also consider the political, historical, and social underpinnings of using these sensors in the urban environment.  (The findings from this class will be carried forth to a spring 2015 class at NYU ITP called "The Quantified Self About Town.")

Student Requirements: Interest in electronics and sensors. Experience in building simple circuits is preferred but not required. Please bring an Arduino Starter Pack (or equivalent components) and your laptop to class.

Sponsor(s): Urban Studies and Planning
Contact: Arlene Ducao, arlduc@mit.edu

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	Jan/20	Tue	10:00AM-03:00PM	TBA
	Jan/21	Wed	10:00AM-03:00PM	TBA
	Jan/22	Thu	10:00AM-03:00PM	TBA
	Jan/23	Fri	10:00AM-03:00PM	TBA

Arlene Ducao

Kate Fichter, Eric Plosky

Jan/29

Thu

01:00PM-04:00PM

9-450

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up

As a vital and complex element of any urban or regional environment, transportation infrastructure both affects and is affected by land use patterns, economic development policies, political power-brokering and environmental resources, and so offers a lens through which to study many of the choices and constraints available to today's planners. This seminar will offer a practice-oriented overview of the issues, players and trends most relevant to contemporary transportation planning, as taught by two MIT/DUSP alumni currently working in the field.

Sponsor(s): Urban Studies and Planning
Contact: Ezra Glenn, 7-337, x3-2024, eglenn@mit.edu

Nse Umoh Esema, Director of Community Media Projects, MIT CoLab, Lawrence Barriner II, Interaction Institute For Social Change

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 12/31
Limited to 8 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions

Interested in exploring the intersection of storytelling, urban planning and community engagement? Then join us for this 8-day evening workshop over IAP!

This workshop will provide an opportunity for students to produce a multimedia story related to a new (and first of its kind) City of Boston effort focused on envisioning the city’s long-term transportation future. As part of the visioning process, known as GoBoston2030 (www.goboston2030.org), the Interaction Institute for Social Change is launching a citywide question campaign, a process designed to gather the voice of everyone in the city. The Campaign is focused on inviting everyone in the city to contribute his or her question(s) about transportation in Boston. Students will participate in question collection and will work closely with someone who has contributed a question to construct an authentic and compelling multimedia story. The purpose of this story is to make visible the knowledge, concerns, hopes, and aspirations behind the question that contributor has offered to the transportation visioning process. Through this hands-on workshop students will learn about the media production process as well as about the Question Campaign as a method for community engagement.

Please fill out this survey if you plan to join the workshop: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1K5EqDLtm8YfUUBywVHdZYFR_ljOepx6Dav3N3TeTzDA/viewform?usp=send_form

Sponsor(s): Urban Studies and Planning
Contact: Nse Umoh Esema, 240 688-8799, nseabasi@mit.edu

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	Jan/05	Mon	06:00PM-09:00PM	9-451
	Jan/06	Tue	06:00PM-09:00PM	9-451
	Jan/07	Wed	06:00PM-09:00PM	9-451
	Jan/08	Thu	06:00PM-09:00PM	9-451
	Jan/12	Mon	06:00PM-09:00PM	9-451
	Jan/13	Tue	06:00PM-09:00PM	9-451
	Jan/14	Wed	06:00PM-09:00PM	9-451
	Jan/15	Thu	06:00PM-09:00PM	9-451

Nse Umoh Esema - Director of Community Media Projects, MIT CoLab, Lawrence Barriner II - Interaction Institute For Social Change