Announcements: Class
- Please remind me to press “RECORD” if needed. Thanks.
- NEW in Menu: Midterm Project Brief
Agenda
- Resource of the day, Medical Bias Clips
- Student Blog Spot Talk (chosen at random)
- Medical Tech: Last Bits
- Democracy Now!: Whistleblower Nurse in ICE Jail
- Whistleblowers: Whistleblowers.gov. Also Ch.7, Medical Apartheid, last section
- Dr. Mahendra Amin, Nurse Eunice Rivers
- Public Tech: Diversity and Design. Please enter your name for the chapter you chose.
- Chapter 1: Designing the Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK) Memorial and National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Chapter 2: Univ. of Virginia’s Shadow Catcher memorial and the university’s role in the slave trade of the antebellum South
- Chapter 3: “Landscape Stories” as a means to recover the lost histories of ethnic groups in the United States.
- Chapter 4: Shifting Spatial and Social Patterns in Shanghai Shikumen Architecture of China
- Chapter 5: Architects at War: Designing Prison Cities for Japanese American Communities (including the editor’s intro)
- Chapter 9: Designing LGBT Senior Housing: Triangle Square, Carefree Boulevard, and BOOM
- Discussion: Midterm Project Brief
Assignments
- Due Thursday 10/8:
- Phase 1, Blog Post #10: For Chapter 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 9 in Diversity and Design, please discuss EITHER
- The chapter’s “Editor’s Introduction” questions (appears just before the first page of the chapter) OR
- One of the discussion questions at the end of the chapter.
- Read through and start thinking about the “Planning Your Project” section of the Midterm Project Brief. Come to class on Thursday to discuss, ask questions, and potentially interview your classmate(s).
- Phase 1, Blog Post #10: For Chapter 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 9 in Diversity and Design, please discuss EITHER
Announcements + Extra Credit
- Events:
- 10/8: The Future of Clinical Trials (STAT)
- 10/9: Southern Poverty Law Center panel discussion on fascism and propaganda with author Jason Stanley
- 10/14: Documentary: Created by the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War, “Ghost Tape #10” was one of many audio tapes engineered to psychologically intimidate and demoralize the North Vietnamese Army through its depiction of the Buddhist afterlife.
- All this week: First Peoples Week at The Greene Space
- Write a post about the event above or any of the following:
- On Thursday, we will look at transportation technology, planning, and tribal communities. You are welcome to take a look at some of the materials in advance:
- Tribal Transportation Planning and Pedestrian Safety panel by America Walks.
- Transportation Research Board Webinar: Human Trafficking and Mobility of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women
- Introduction to Spiral to the Stars: Mvskoke Tools of Futurity by Laura Harjo. The section Methodological Trajectory (pp. 14-26) talks about the technologies, and the limitations of using these technologies, deployed for preserving Mvskoke (Muskogee) tribal land.
- On Thursday, we will look at transportation technology, planning, and tribal communities. You are welcome to take a look at some of the materials in advance:
Opportunities
Election Volunteer Opportunities with Immigrant Justice Fund