Systems Thinking
NYU ITP Bodies and Buildings Class 7
Bodies and Buildings: April 8 The mindset or paradigm out of which the system – its goals, power structure, rules, its culture-arises. Reading for next week: Pick any of these architectural “facsicles” – they are delicious. Assignment for next week to prepare for final concept presentation: Concept source and exploration: What part of the system of how we care for bodies, or how we make and maintain our buildings, interests Read More
NYU ITP Bodies and Buildings Class 6
Most of the technological interventions in the global environment have focused on the supply side: The availability of land (conservation) The availability of fuel (gas crises, investment in clean tech) The availability of greener products with greener materials (green product development/greenwashing) In this class we focus on the demand side – making buildings so that they demand less from the earth. But to understand the context, we need to know Read More
NYU ITP Bodies and Buildings Class 4
To prepare for next week’s assignment, read: Protecting Patient Privacy: Strategies For Regulating Electronic Health Records Exchange NYCLU, read Part 2 and Conclusion Bodies and buildings nyu itp 2 25 2013 from Jen van der Meer Optional: Rekindling the Patient Privacy Debate. When Patients Tell Their Stories, Their Health May Improve. Wit. By Margaret Edson. Dramatists Play Service, Inc., Mar 1, 1999. Prepare a written and spoken argument Read More
NYU ITP: Bodies and Buildings, Class 3
Class assignment for 2/25/2013 Read: The quantified self, Counting every moment. The Economist, March 3, 2012. Additional videos from Todd Park Todd Park: Opening Data for Social Change Bodies and buildings nyu itp 2 11 2013 from Jen van der Meer Optional: Social fMRI: Investigating and shaping social mechanisms in the real world. Nadav Aharonya, Wei Pana, Cory Ipa, Inas Khayala,b, Alex Pentlanda. Persuasive and Mobile Computing. Vol 7, 2011, 643-659. Read More
NYU ITP Bodies and Buildings Class 2
Systems Thinking and The Obesity Epidemic Bodies and buildings nyu itp 2 4 13 from Jen van der Meer Class assignment for 2/11/2013 Read: Networked Medicine: From Obesity to the “Diseasome”. Editorial by Albert-László Barabási, Ph.D. NEJM. July 26,2007. Optional: Deeper Reading: Original Study by Christakis and Fowler: The Spread of Obesity in a Large Social Network over 32 Years. NEJM. July 26, 2007. Critique of this study: Lyons. The Spread of Evidence-Poor Medicine via Flawed Social-Network Analysis. Read More