Sense & Scale

A site to explore cultures, cities, and computing at varying senses and scales. Updated by Ar Ducao, with content from classes at NYU, MIT, CUNY and more.

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  • Announcements New items in Reading/Watching/Listening: Updated Policy on Unexcused Absences (UA) – also added to the D&T menu Additional notes: Agenda Assignment

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  • Final Deadlines Updated Policy on Unexcused Absences (UA) Additional notes:

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  • Computer Science Students worked with the following in previous semesters of PEP Comp Sci: 3D Animation Recommended free software: Blender, which does not require web connectivity to use. Blender is very popular with young animators today. Some (all?) PEP lab computers already have Microsoft 3D Viewer, but this software can…

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  • Announcements New resource in Reading/Listening/Watching: Power over Peoples: Technology, Environments, and Western Imperialism, 1400 to the Present Agenda Assignment

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  • Announcements Alluded to in the Introduction to Dominance by Design: the poem “White Man’s Burden” by Rudyard Kipling. Unless you prefer otherwise, Session #22 will be the final in-class Timed Exercise. They will be optional homework for Sessions #23-27. PLEASE NOTE: you must complete at least 22 exercises! Agenda Assignment

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  • Announcements New items in the “Bodily Autonomy” and “Spatial Sovereignty” sections of Reading/Watching/Listening. Midterm grades should be up by Friday. Not getting the grade you want? Don’t leave points on the table!… Agenda. Note the revised time allocations: Assignments

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  • Announcements Field trip TODAY! We will meet nearby at 370 Jay Street, Room 220. Midterm Updates: After reading all your midterms this weekend, I was generally impressed with the level of cultural competence demonstrated by the articles! (I’m still in the process of calculating grades.)For the second half of the semester, we…

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  • Announcements Following on Monday’s discussion of Dawn and CRISPR: a resource page on issues of informed consent and “human subjects” in research and medical experiments, particularly as it pertains to racism in the United States. If you plan to use Dawn for your final paper, and/or if you want to…

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