60-741 Urban Intervention
12 units, Carnegie Mellon University
This course introduces students to the histories, repertoire, tools and methodologies for interventions into public space. Specifically, this course will focus on interventions that are motivated by the needs of a community of stakeholders, and the gathering, visualization, sonification, interpretation and narration of data can. During the first half of the course, students will be introduced to a number of hardware tools tools and software platforms for cartographic, demographic and environmental data. Students will be introduced to and complete exercises with several software platforms for data scraping, visualization and sonification, as well as tools and methodologies for employing largescale outdoor video projection as a technique for sharing information with a wide range of audiences. This portion of the course culminates in a presentation by each student that lays out a plan for a final project, to be completed in the latter half of the course. Specifically, each student will identify a problem to address, identify the stakeholders in this issue, devise a strategy for employing urban intervention with media to address this issue. Students will be required to carefully assess the feasibility and scope of their proposed project so as to assure a tangible deliverable with positive impact. During the second half of the course students will iterate through two prototypes of their intervention plan, and finally actualize the intervention during the final two weeks of the course. The undergraduate 60441 and graduate 60741 sections of the course meet concurrently and follow the same syllabus and assignments. In addition to the coursework documented in the syllabus, Graduate level students are expected create a substantial annotated bibliography documenting their research throughout the course of the semester.
Prerequisites: none listed
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