Category: technology
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Testing Our Waters
Empowering citizen scientists to track and prevent marine pollution.
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Temperament of Space – Yonkers
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Africa is a Country
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AIDS Quilt Touch
Our aim is to create an appropriate digital memorial that helps preserve significant cultural memories about AIDS, art, and activism, and personal memories about those who died of HIV/AIDS who are commemorated on the Quilt.
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Sound The Mound
“Sound the Mound” is a project developed by students from the Transdisciplinary Department as part of their core PROJECTS STUDIO 1 course. In this course, they address complex issues of climate, sanitation, landfill reclamation, public parks, cellular technology, public art, sonification and more.
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Tuning Into The Bluegrass
By harnessing the power of art, science and technology, Public Works in collaboration with the Department of Environmental Quality constructed a dynamic network that collects and translates groundwater data from across Kentucky into interactive soundscapes that manifest as public art installations and educational outreach programs.
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Visualizing Pipeline Impacts
Across the Northeastern US, the health and wellbeing of local communities and fragile ecosystems are under significant threat due to an unprecedented rollout of Shale Gas infrastructure. This comes in the forms of fracked gas drilling pads (Hydraulic Fracturing), transecting pipelines and compressor stations.
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Mentoring Through Making
Given the current political landscape in the U.S. and the recent executive orders that have left immigrant and refugee communities in a particularly vulnerable position, we believe our project is taking place at a pivotal moment for our university and country. The Mentoring Through Making initiative is an innovative approach to education that combines the…
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Incarceration: A Podcast for Change
Incarceration: A Podcast for Change preserves, reframes, and disseminates audio content from the States of Incarceration initiative developed by the Humanities Action Lab (HAL) in 2015-16. Students at The New School and other partner institutions created content in support of a traveling exhibit (ongoing) and related community outreach.
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The Bell: A Student Podcast
The New York City public school system comprises 1,856 schools and 1,133,963 students – an enrollment greater than that of 38 states. The system is home to some of the finest public schools in the country, and some of the worst, with a high degree of racial and socioeconomic segregation contributing to unequal opportunities and…
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Post from the Past
There is a lack of engagement and meaningful learning in pre-college education when it comes to History. This problem is compounded by a lack of funding, support, and innovation in history and social studies classrooms across the nation.