Banks+Project+Hopping

=Project Hopping= Do not like Republicans || North Central Troy || Surdna, National Endowment for the Arts, HASS, NSF Dissertation Improvement grant, operating budget for Media Alliance LLC. || NSF Dissertation improvement grant, ||
 * **Topical area?** || **Data sets?** || **Social theoretical questions?** || **Why now?** || **How prepared?** || **Bias?** || **Field of work?** || **Funders** ||
 * Radical geography, urban studies, collaborative design || PAR focus group feedback, ethnographic field notes & survey results || What kinds of technologies facilitate community’s problem-solving capacity? || Lots of communities suffering from local austerity measures. Lack of trust in governments. Cheap and easy to use tools are readily available in the market. || Very. Established ties with key nonprofits in the field. Requisite literature reviewed. Seed funds available, hardware and software selected. || Want web-based, open-source technologies to offer a large part of the solution. Own white, cis-male privilege.
 * Critical making, appropriating technology, social entrepreneurship || Ethnographic field notes, project reports, photos, audio, videos. Drawn maps and answers to standard interview questions. || Can a “tech fix” shift controversial activity from the public to the private, giving needed privacy to the underprivileged? Understood through building condom vending machines. || HIV/AIDS still a problem, NGO work is currently being questioned at a fundamental level, women’s reproductive rights under renewed attack. || Have already done 4 weeks of intensive fieldwork. Have worked with 4 undergrads to produce prototypes. Interviews and project reports completed. Need a lot of synthesis and a fully working prototype and “kit of parts” offering || Access to birth control is fundamentally right. Large NGO work institutionalizes problems, does not solve them. || Kumasi, Ghana || Engineers without borers, GK-12,
 * Popular technology, || Video and audio recordings of community design Charrettes, ethnographic field notes & survey results || Do performance art spaces create venues for community cohesion? || Construction of new public spaces are of low quality and sparse. Need new ideas and a better understanding of what they do for communities. || Established solid connections with a group making a performance art space. Have been sitting in on and taking notes on planning meetings. || I think public space is essential for healthy communities but I feel like really good public space leads to gentrification most of the time. || North Central Troy || Surdna, National Endowment for the Arts, HASS, NSF Dissertation Improvement grant, operating budget for Media Alliance LLC. ||
 * Science studies || Episodes of popular ghost hunting shows like Ghost Adventures, interviews with paranormal investigators || Do the inscription devices and discursive frames of paranormal investigators produce ghosts? || Philosophy of Scientific practice has somewhat stagnated. || Have watched lots of Ghost Adventures, have contacts in the paranormal investigator community. || I don’t think ghosts are real || The Northeast, the afterlife || I have no idea. ||