Thanks for asking. We are trying to get better at that, and I expect there will be more show-and-tell at the end of this term. In a one-semester course it’s hard to do system-sensing field work and have room for anything else, while also avoiding “students parachuting in” syndrome. So our field projects are focused on listening to a community / slice of life well enough to learn something about conversations that matter but aren’t happening, then convene and host the beginning of that conversation. And since the program has a whole separate class for mapping, we manage our time accordingly.

But here are a few things to look at…

• Books on issuu.com
  Results from two years when we asked students to make mini-posters of topics they learned about, then collected them into a book. As you might expect from one semester at the very beginning of the grad experience, the quality and accuracy is uneven. But as a survey I think they’re interesting!
• A mapping project: health in Harlem
  A couple of years ago, the mapping class at SVA DSI took on the challenge of mapping health dynamics in Harlem. I tried to find the actual maps online, and so far have failed. I’ll say that since the course covers both mapping and visualization design, the maps were beautiful as well as usefully informative.
• Students are about to start “blogging” on Medium
  There’s nothing here yet but an introduction (which includes the course syllabus), but soon student writing and reflections will start appearing in this Medium publication.