Become a Data & Internet Planning Ninja
Rob Goodspeed
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
Looking to develop your data and technology skills? Are you seeking to share your experience or get advice about a planning or analysis problem? Want to discuss the value of a particular technology or technique? Participate in any or all of these student-driven workshops to learn about and discuss data sources, analysis, and web-based technologies for urban planning and research.
Contact: Rob Goodspeed, rgoodspe@mit.edu
Transforming Data into Information
Kerry Spitzer & Eric Schultheis
This seminar will explore how you can use descriptive statistics to create information from data. Participants will use real-world data source(s) and off-the-shelf software to craft a narrative using quantitative data. We will pay particular attention to how the choice of descriptive statistic
shapes a narrative's legitimacy and content.
Mon Jan 30, 10am-12:00pm, 9-450A
GIS for Justice: Spatial Data Analysis in Social Justice Advocacy
Eric Schultheis
This seminar will introduce participants to how social justice advocates
use GIS in practice. The seminar will focus on how GIS (ArcMap) is used by
civil rights, anti-poverty, and equity activists to support their advocacy
agendas. In addition, this seminar will discuss how advocates can leverage
visualization, scale, and the spatial aggregation to support their advocacy
efforts.
Mon Jan 30, 03-05:00pm, 9-450A
Low-Cost Online Community Engagement Tools
Jase Wilson, MCP ‘08
This hands-on workshop will cover how to set up a low-cost website for
community engagement. In just a few simple steps, learn how to create a
website to disseminate information, gather feedback, interpret results and
collaboratively write policies. Includes a discussion of WordPress, Google Forms, Google Fusion Tables + charts API, Wordpress plugins.
Tue Jan 31, 10am-12:00pm, 9-450A
Crowdsourcing Tools for Public Participation in Planning
Rob Goodspeed
New online tools for “crowdsourcing” have exploded in the field of planning. Learn how these
tools work and how they can be incorporated into planning projects.
Includes examples of how they have been used by cities, states, and federal
agencies. Presentation will include a discussion of tools for ideas or
feedback (IdeaScale, Spigit, UserVoice, MindMixer, ChangeByUs) and spatial
comments (Ushahidi/CrowdMap).
Tue Jan 31, 01-03:00pm, 9-450A
Data and Methods for Analyzing Labor Markets
Amy Glasmeier
Tue Jan 31, 03-05:00pm, 9-450A
Urban Data Management and Visualization
David Quinn
Software: R, QGIS.
Learn how to gain new insights from urban data through the use of spatial analysis and visualization techniques. Participants will learn methods for exploring datasets and creating visualizations in a hands-on environment. We will also discuss how to generate maps using scripting. Please fill out this form before the workshop:
tinyurl.ie/dusp_viz
Wed Feb 1, 10am-12:00pm, 9-450A
Web-Based Mapping and Data Visualization
David Quinn
Software: QGIS, OpenLayers, Google Fusion
Tables.
Web-based mapping and visualizations are a useful means of sharing
information. Participants will learn how to create customized web maps and
display data within a browser so that a user can interact with the data
presented. Please fill out this form before the workshop:
tinyurl.ie/dusp_viz
Wed Feb 1, 01-04:00pm, 9-450A
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Dream, Design, Do: 3D with DUSPviz
DUSPviz Team
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Limited to 20 participants.
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
We relish in the idea that we can get a good night’s sleep (barring any frustration with GIS or Excel), but are secretly jealous that the MArchs down the hall get to bring their ideas and plans as close to reality as a computer will allow them. It’s time to step outside of the 1D world of dreaming and earn those second and third Ds. Our time together is short, so let’s learn something wild while we’re still picking our brains.
DUSPviz is offering three workshops on AutoCAD, Rhinoceros and Google SketchUp this IAP. These introductory workshops will present the basics and best practices of each program and are intended for students with little to no experience in one or all of the programs. Students from all program groups are welcome and no design experience is required.
Students are encouraged to download AutoCAD (from IS&T) and SketchUp (from Google) for free. A free trial version of Rhinoceros is also available for download.
Contact: DUSPviz Team, duspviz@mit.edu
AutoCAD
Minjee Kim
AutoCAD is a 2D program used in the design and drafting of buildings, tools and machinery. Learn the basics of navigating through the AutoCAD workspace and creating your own plans.
Wed Feb 1, 01-04:00pm, 9-251
Rhino
Viktorija Abolina
Rhinoceros (“Rhino”) is a 3D program for documenting and modeling designs for rendering, animation, drafting, engineering, analysis, and manufacturing or construction. Students are strongly recommended to take the AutoCAD session or have some experience with AutoCAD.
Thu Feb 2, 01-04:00pm, 9-251
Google SketchUp
DUSPviz Team
SketchUp is a 3D program used to download and create models for design, engineering and fun. Models can be assigned spatial references and can easily be imported into Google Earth.
Fri Feb 3, 01-04:00pm, 9-251
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Optimizing Urban Energy Systems through the Use of District Energy
Stephen Hammer
Tue Jan 24, 09:30-11:30am, Cambridge
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Limited to 20 participants.
Single session event
Spend part of your IAP learning about cogeneration-based district energy, a highly-efficient way to satisfy the electrical and thermal power needs of cities.
We'll tour the GenOn Kendall Cogenertation Station, and learn about its role in supporting the Veolia Energy-Dalkia district energy network around Cambridge and Boston. Guest speakers include Rowan Sanders (Veolia Energy North America) and Tob Thornton (International District Energy Association).
Contact: Stephen Hammer, 9-312, (347) 443-9169, hammer1@mit.edu
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Planners Read The Gorgias
Ezra Glenn
Wed Jan 18, 02-04:00pm, 9-450A
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
What is the role of oratory and power in a democratic society? Is it worse to do wrong or to be wronged? What is the difference between knowledge and true belief? Why is it important for both the accused and their judges to meet naked in court? (And what do all of these questions have to do with becoming an urban planner?)
Come explore these themes with us in a dramatic -- possibly participatory -- reading of Plato's "Gorgias," a Socratic dialog written in 380 BC that is as relevant today as when it was written.
Greek food included; togas optional.
Contact: Ezra Glenn, 7-337, x3-2024, eglenn@mit.edu
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Planning, Funding, and Implementing Transportation Projects in the Real World (or How It Really Works)
Kate Fichter, Eric Plosky
Thu Jan 19, 01-04:00pm, 9-450A
No limit but advance sign up required (see contact below)
Single session event
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/ae currently working in the field.
Contact: Ezra Glenn, 7-337, x3-2024, eglenn@mit.edu
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Technology for Advocacy: Apps for reporting issues in the Built Environment
Rachel Blatt
Wed Feb 1, 06-07:30pm, 32-155
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Ever complained about overflowing trash bins, broken sidewalks, potholes? There’s an app for that!
Join us for a panel discussion with representatives from three organizations that help citizens report issues in the built environment to the appropriate authorities. They’ll talk about the technologies they have developed and the ways that smart phones are changing how citizens interact with governments.
See Click Fix – a New Haven based start-up that works with municipalities large and small and community organizations to collect reports from citizens.
The Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics, Boston – this unique branch of the city government is tasked with developing innovative ways of engaging constituents.
Talk to the T – the MBTA launched their Talk to the T campaign and app over the summer to facilitate reporting on MBTA property.
This event is hosted by the Department of Urban Studies and Planning, organized by WalkBoston, and co-sponsored by the Institute for Human Centered Design.
Contact: Rachel Blatt, rb2472@mit.edu
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Urban Planning Movie Marathon
Ezra Glenn
Tue Jan 31, 12pm-12:00am, AVT
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
This year's noon-to-midnight Marathon will feature a variety of films on topics related to urban planning, environmentalism, affordable housing, design, development, globalism, and the nature of regions, cities, and neighborhoods. In addition to feature-length films and documentaries, we'll include a few shorts (and maybe even a few cartoons).
Full program TBA at http://web.mit.edu/eglenn/www/iap_films_2012.html; come for one or stay for all. Popcorn and other food served.
Contact: Ezra Glenn, 7-337, x3-2024, eglenn@mit.edu
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