ITPG-GT 2338 1 (This class meets at varied times)
Days and Times: Mondays 12:10PM - 3:10PM
Location: 370 Jay Street, Room 409 Loc: Brooklyn Campus
Dates: 2/28/2022; 3/7/2022; 3/21/2022
Instructors: John Henry Thompson; Shindy Johnson
This course will use the open source The COVID-19 Impact Project as a basis to explore ways to humanize the unfolding data on the coronavirus pandemic. Students are invited to collaborate on the COVID-19 Impact Project. Students will discover how data flows from public github repositories and tools needed to visualize the data. We will review other data-centric open source projects related to COVID-19 and discuss the questions they are trying to answer or problems they are trying to solve. We will examine historical and contemporary data visualizations. Using data visualization as a scaffold, we will explore ways to support community driven mourning and memorialization. Students can choose to participate as javascript coders, p5js explorers, UI/UX designers, citizen journalists, or data science explorers.
Students will participate in lectures, research, discussion groups, hands on design and build activities and group or individual projects. Students will be expected to dedicate at least 3 hours of work on weekly assignments in between sessions.
Week 1: Lecture, discussion groups. Assignment 1 : Select course project and work on the first iteration to present in the next class.
Week 2: Students present the first iteration of the course project for in-class discussion and feedback. Assignment 2 : Revise and build on course project based on feedback
Week 3: Students present the second iteration of the class project. All assignments must include documentation.
Students are invited to continue their participation in the project after the course ends. We will be seeking funding via grants to implement viable concepts.
● Open Source Projects for the Public Good
● Data: Sourcing, Humanizing and Creating Visual Narratives from Data
● Storytelling
● Grief, Ritual and Memorialization
Students will be graded on
➢ Class participation (mandatory)
➢ Course project (2 iterations and documentation)
The COVID-19 Impact Project Dashboard
The Coding Lab https://codinglab.itp.io/ and The Design Lab https://designlab.itp.io/
These are peer-to-peer tutoring/mentoring/consulting groups that you can go for project help! Each mentor has different skills and strengths listed on their websites. Click the links above to find appointment links and contact information.
Also, if you need shop help, you can meet with any of these knowledgeable shop people: Lulu, Aidan or Ben
If you are in need of project documentation (photos, film, interviews, etc.), you can get in touch with the Documentation Lab: https://forms.gle/V2x4mecHPzUkEeaU7