DILAC Project: Sweet Auburn by Nassim JafariNaimi
From Kevin Pittman October 29th, 2017
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From Kevin Pittman October 29th, 2017
"Sweet Auburn: Birthplace of Ideas" engages the theme of social justice from the perspective of design. We put emphasis on the transformational role of digital technologies and participatory cultures, helping students frame community-based problems and craft solutions in ways that are innovative, ethical, and culturally well-informed. More specifically, the course asks students to create media strategies that present stories of Sweet Auburn to selected audiences. Students learn about multiple modes of production and dissemination of stories and oral histories including traditional, contemporary, and emerging media forms: face-to-face conversations, speeches, radio, media archives, urban installations, interactive maps, and visualizations to name a few. In this context, students learn about asymmetries of storytelling and listening, ones’ ethical responsibility to stories, potential biases of technologies of representations, and the ethical and political challenges associated with the collection, access, and dissemination of stories. We engage ways that these forms connect to discourses on emerging technologies such as smart cities and Internet of Things.