All groups need to register for a session by April 24, 2017. Register online here: Seminar 4 Common Event
Please choose one time-slot on either May 6 or May 7 (9:45am-12:00pm or 12:45pm-3:00pm).
what to expect
You will present in groups. Each group should assign one contact person who will register your group and provide the names of the other participants as well as a working title for your presentation.
Your group will be presenting on a panel with groups from other classes and campuses.
The presentations are 10 minutes plus time for Q&A (presentations cannot go over the 10 minutes, so you will need to practice!).
Each time slot will be divided into two one-hour long sessions, with concurrent sessions running in multiple rooms. For one of the sessions, you and your group will be presenting. For the other, you will be an audience member in the same room. Plan to stay for the full two hours.
Your group will be able to choose whichever date is convenient for you.
Entire classes are not expected to attend the same session. We cannot provide dedicated space for single classes. Presentations will be grouped by shared topics or themes to encourages cross-campus discussions of your research projects.
Resources & Materials
The shared Google Drive folder contains a folder labeled “workshop presentation materials” with the PowerPoint and handout from class on Thursday, March 30.
problems & solutions
The presentation on March 30 emphasized the importance of using a case study to ground your research question (the problem) in something tangible for your audience to understand. Additionally, the case study will provide support for your group’s solution or analysis of the problem.
In order to help you with the presentation of a solution/answer to your problem/research question, the “presentation workshop materials” folder contains a PDF of the book A Practical Guide to Policy Analysis that you may find useful for models of policy analysis. While I haven’t used it for myself, it seems like a useful resource if you are having trouble with your research.
The conference asks that each student group’s presentation defines the problem and propose a solution. A solution can take many forms: a brand-new policy (legislation); offer modifications to existing policies; expand a current city department’s tasks or duties (as opposed to creating a new one or try to draft legislation). Your group might even propose the first step to finding an effective solution might be redefining the problem: what does “gentrification” mean in a legal sense and how might having a city-wide standard definition help or hinder the effects associated with gentrification like higher rents, displacement of people, etc.
Twitter is a great way to see the conversations taking place between city planners, urbanists, and historians! View the list: NYC Urbanism
Curated specifically for Seminar 4, NYC Urbanism shows tweets from over 100 accounts related to New York City, urban planning, policy, and history.
The list includes official city accounts like @NYCPlanning and @NYC_DOT, authors from the course reading list including Brian Tochterman (@btochterman) and Richard Florida (@Richard_Florida), as well as accounts chosen to help with the research project such as digitized archival collections (NYPL Archives) in addition to tweets from accounts related to social science methods, GIS, and mapping like @SocialExplorer, and @pewmethods.
Below is an embedded PDF of the PowerPoint shown in class on Thursday, March 9 during the Social Explorer workshop. This PowerPoint contains:
A link to an excellent video tutorial about Social Explorer;
A link to my demo project about using Social Explorer to understand the changes in the neighborhood where Paris Is Burning was filmed;
Instructions about accessing Social Explorer from the BC Library website.
Please don’t hesitate to contact me to learn more about using Social Explorer as a means to understanding the changes in your research group’s neighborhood!
In the 1970s the artist Gordon Matta-Clark (1943-1978) entered condemned buildings in the Bronx and, using a chainsaw, cut out parts of the architectural support. Matta-Clark considered the transitory, fugitive acts of (illegally) entering and cutting as the work of art so he documented his process with photographs that were then exhibited in galleries:
Gordon Matta-Clark, Threshole, 1972-73. Image Source: http://www.tate.org.uk/research/publications/tate-papers/07/towards-anarchitecture-gordon-matta-clark-and-le-corbusierGordon Matta Clark, Bronx Floors (1972-73). MOMA. Image source: https://www.moma.org/collection/works/81396
His work doesn’t aim to create “beautiful” art but explore the politics of place and space. In her book about Matta-Clark, Object to be Destroyed, Pamela M. Lee describes the relationship between artist, artistic practice, and space:
Matta-Clark reflected critically on the temporality of the build environment, a materialist recoding of an “architecture of time.” For the presence of his work within both the urban and suburban sphere emanded that it be encountered as a socialized thing; and its imminent demolition ensured that it not be elevated to the rank of transcendent art objects.
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