Researchers+Working+Group

Meetings: Wed's 3-4:30pm E15-363 (3rd floor) of the old Media Lab building

The **goals** of the researchers' group include:
 * giving feedback on individual projects
 * sharing resources
 * applying for umbrella grants
 * organizing summer camp and/or workshops in the Boston area in 2010


 * Major Questions**:
 * How do we build toolkit with simple easy to use technology tools?
 * What tools are youth in communities already employing and how could new technologies enhance and network their efforts?
 * What happens with these tools and maps after the MIT student intervention/interaction?


 * Participants** include:
 * Nitin Sawhney (MIT [|Arts, Culture, & Technology], Voices Beyond Walls)
 * Leo Burd (MIT Center for Future Civic Media, VOIP Drupal / What's Up Lawrence)
 * Jeff Warren ( [|MIT Media Lab]’s [|Design Ecology], GrassrootsMapping.org )
 * Kate Balug (Harvard Grad School of Design, Urban Planning)
 * Danielle Martin (MIT Dept of Urban Studies & Planning, MIT CoLab, MassIMPACT, Peace in Focus)
 * Saeed Arida - http://nuvustudio.org
 * John Arroyo - MIT DUSP - L.A. River Cultural Mapping http://colabradio.mit.edu/?cat=95
 * Cartegen UROPs: Jie-Yoon & Sean
 * Audubon Dougherty (MIT Center for Future Civic Media, [|M-Generations])
 * Jay Silver, MIT Media Lab Lifelong Kindergarten Group

**Online working spaces:** Grassrootsmapping.org wiki: http://wiki.grassrootsmapping.org/ Google group: http://groups.google.com/group/department-of-play Google group pages on Funding and Related Org's: http://groups.google.com/group/department-of-play/web