WEEK 6 - Feb. 09 - 14

*** Design work for URBZ’s Drupal system
*** Meetings with Matias Echanove
*** Lecture 2: Participatory Planning: Potential and Limitations
*** Thurs: Reading by Rahul Srivastava & Matias Echanove (2007) "Urban Natures: Of Fields & Forests"
*** Friday: A mini-symposium on "Participatory Community Informatics".
*** Saturday: Workshop with Nishit Shah of URBZ on Drupal
*** - Smita Aunty's birthday
*** - CEMA participates in Pub Bharo movement
*** Sunday: Workshop with Nishit Shah
*** - Aero-India show.

WEEK 6 - Feb. 16 - 21

*** Design work for URBZ’s Drupal system
*** Testing
*** Meetings with Matias Echanove
*** Lecture 3: Learning from the Web: Data Gathering & Processing

WEEK 7 - Feb. 23 - 28

*** Implementation and evaluation by URBZ team and Srishti faculty
*** Lecture 4: VirtuReality: Thinking & Desiging Beyond the Screen

WEEK 8 - Mar. 02 - 08

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SPRING 2008 (OLD)

WEEK 1 - Jan. 05 - 10

*** CEMA opens. Two members missing. Zack in Portland, Aliya in Japan.
*** Sign up for Urbz (Drupal CMS course) in Dharavi, Mumbai and Bangalore.
*** Reading and surfing on partipatory communities, urban jungles, etc.

WEEK 2 - Jan. 12 - 17

*** Fieldwork in Mumbai with Columbia GSAPP students & students of JJ School Of Architecture

WEEK 3 - Jan. 19 - 24

*** Fieldwork in Mumbai
*** Training sessions and workshop with Urbz team
*** Create and upload content onto dharavi.org site

WEEK 4 - Jan. 26 - Jan. 31

*** Mapping the music of Dharavi with Paul Devro of Mad Decent.
*** Organize workshops with students of Dharavi
*** Conduct auditions for children to sing with Paul Devro and Bappi Lahiri.
*** Help organize the Dharavi.org party.

WEEK 5 - Feb. 02 - 07

*** Feb. 04: Return to CEMA
*** Design work for URBZ’s Drupal system
*** Training session II with URBZ team
- Morning: Participatory Planning strategies (Rahul & Matias)
- Afternoon: Designing templates for Drupal (Nishit Shah)
*** Meetings with Matias Echanove
*** Lecture 1: Theories of Urban Growth: City as Machine; City as Organism; City as Communication System; Urban Social Movements

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OLD:Fall 2008 Schedule

WEEK 1 - Aug. 11 - 14

Monday, Aug. 11 - CEMA opens -
*** 9:30 Introduction to the lab // Design Ethnography crash course.
*** 2:00 Discussion on Copyright, Collage, Appropriation and Creative Commons. We watched Sonic Outlaws and listened to some of the tracks from STAY FREE'S ILLEGAL ART COMPILATION CD. By the end of the week all students need to get a login name at Wikipedia, and modify at least one article. Later on this semester we will be talking about heterodox economics such as Gift Economies as well as "the Commons". Don't be a free rider.

Tuesday, Aug 12 - Web Workshop
*** 9:30 --> Introduction to IT with Zack
*** 3:30 --> Talk by Lalitha Gopalan

Wednesday, Aug. 13 - Web Workshop Part II
*** 9:30 --> Yashas teaches programming with Scratch

Thursday, Aug 14 -
Envirocasting

*** 9:30 Critiquing posters
*** Where You At?

*** For Monday please read and write a thoughtful and coherent blog entry on Urban Computing and Its Discontents and Urban Versioning 1.0. In the future, thoughts on your readings can be posted to BBS so that more comments and conversation can occur, but until Sam sets that up, we will continue with the Blog system.

WEEK 2 - Aug 18 - 23

*** Monday, Aug. 18 - Reading Group and Lab Meeting
We will be discussing Urban Computing and Its Discontents and Urban Versioning 1.0 both part of the Situated Technologies series.
*** Tuesday, Aug, 19 Look at FoodPosters v. 2.0 // Work on SoundSwap
*** Wednesday, Aug. 20 - Smriti - Video Workshop In Camera editing(Meet at CEMA comp lab)
*** Thursday, Aug. 21 - Morning - Post a few threads on the BBS system// Afternoon - Follow up on programming with Yashas

Deccan Traverses Lecture w/ DilipTo Be Rescheduled
*** Friday, Aug. 22 - SoundSwap The Reading for Monday is available here.

WEEK 3 (Srishti Week 8) AUG. 25 - 30 -

*** Monday, Aug. 25 - Reading Group w/ Gabe. Article is here.
*** Tuesday, Aug. 26 - EnviroCasting 1: Notes go here.
*** Wednesday, Aug. 27 - Smriti Video Workshop Part II (Introduction to Non-linear Editing)
*** Thursday, Aug. 28 - Suren (Dip Student) explains several Daily Dump prototypes. Field trip to SP Market.
*** Friday, Aug. 28 - Discussion with Dilip de Cunha and Anuradha Mathur about their upcoming project in Mumbai.
*** Saturday, Aug. 29 - Independent Lab time

WEEK 4 (Srishti Week 9) SEPT. 1
*** Monday, Sept. 1 - Arduino workshop with Anders. Read more here.
*** Tuesday, Sept. 2 - Envirocasting Lab.
*** Wednesday, Sept. 3 - HOLIDAY - no CEMA
*** Thursday, Sept. 2 - Anders Workshop.
*** Friday - Sept. 5 - Workshop with Ayisha in the morning. Shreyas Karle in the afternoon.

(Shreyas Karle, has been in Bangalore for 3 months, and has in a sense been appropriated by the "bar1" India -India residency program 2008, as a torchbearer that functions as a go-be tween for two batches of artist-guests. He received a Masters in visual arts from Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University, Baroda. His work uses absurdity as a metaphor to reflect social situations. It creates an ambience of humour but simultaneously mocks the ironies of reality. Most of the work involves the participation of an audience, that completes the experience of viewing the work. Apart from the visual pun, there is often an anchoring thought that mirrors mundane life. He feels that in the post visual world where imagery has been saturated, he is trying to experiment and re-establish the parameters of defining a visual. He lives and works between Bombay and Baroda. ).

WEEK 5 (Srishti Week 10) SEPT. 8
*** Monday, Sept. 8 Freitag Bros. Workshop
*** Tuesday, Sept. 9 Freitag Bros. Workshop
*** Wednesday, Sept. 10 Freitag Bros. Workshop
*** Thursday, Sept. 11 - Envirocasting.
Poonam at 12:00
*** Friday, Sept. 12 - Reading Group (Read this interview and this essay by Paul Virilio, if we have time we will watch this 5-Partvideo by Delanda about Deleuze, ) also we NEED to take a photograph of the members of the lab so that we can replace the pic that is on the front page as I promised!.... + Gabe Grant Writing workshop
*** Saturday Sept. 13 - Envirocasting

WEEK 6 (Srishti Week 11) SEPT. 15 -
*** Monday, Sept. 15 - Voices from Water Civil Engineers conference & Movie Screening
*** Tuesday, Sept. 16 - Workshop Summary and Watercasting
*** Wednesday, Sept. 17 - Meet at CEMA for follow up to drawing workshop with Ayisha
*** Thursday, Sept. 18 - Envirocasting Afternoon: Sangama visit.
*** Friday Sept. 19 - Presentations - CEMA (Pecha Kucha) Lab Meeting - Interests, Research, Work
*** Saturday Sept. 20 - Envirocasting

WEEK 7 (Srishti Week 12) SEPT. 22
*** Monday Sept. 22 Anders Workshop
*** Tuesday Sept. 23 Envirocasting
*** Wednesday Sept. 24 Anders worskhop
*** Thursday Sept. 25 - Envirocasting. Review at 10:00 - 12:30 only. + Reading Group in the Afternoon
*** Friday Sept. 26 - Watercasting
*** Saturday Sept. 27 - Watercasting + Saturday Night - Burnt Jam & Toast at Olive Beach: VJ Extravaganza

WEEK 8 (Srishti Week 13) SEPT. 29
HOLIDAY THIS WEEK

WEEK 9 (Srishti Week 14) OCT. 6
HOLIDAY THIS WEEK

WEEK 10 (Srishti Week 15) OCT. 13
*** Monday Oct. 13 - Anders Workshop
*** Tuesday Oct. 14 - Envirocasting
*** Wednesday Oct. 15 - Anders Workshop
*** Thursday Oct. 16 - Envirocasting + Pre Reviews in the Afternoon We need to reschedule reviews until after interim. Let's figure out dates this week itself.
*** Friday Oct. 17 - Watercasting
Saturday Oct. 18 - Watercasting

WEEK 11 (Srishti Week 16) OCT. 20

*** Monday Oct. 20 - Anders Workshop
*** Tuesday Oct. 21 - Envirocasting
*** Wednesday Oct. 22 - Anders Workshop
*** Thursday Oct. 23 - Envirocasting Zack and Gabe in town for meeting. This could be a good day for internal reviwes before end of the semester.
*** Friday Oct. 24 - Watercasting
*** Saturday Oct. 25 - Watercasting

WEEK 12 (Srishti Week 17) OCT. 27 -
NO CLASSES THIS WEEK

WEEK 13 (Srishti Week 18) NOV. 3 - Reflection and Assessment Week
*** Monday Nov. 3 - Envirocasting
*** Tuesday Nov. 4 - Envirocasting
*** Wednesday Nov. 5 - U.S. Election Returns, No Class. (Come watch at Zack and Gabe's)
*** Thursday Nov. 6 - Envirocasting
*** Friday Nov. 7 - Review Day
+ Watercasting
*** Saturday Nov. 8 - Watercasting

NOV. 10 (Srishti Week 19) Interim Semester

DEC. 15 - Students Leave