Events

=Upcoming Activities and Events=


 * January 27, 2012**
 * MetroBoston Data Common Data Day - **@Using Data to Engage Youth in their Neighborhoods** []
 * May 2011**
 * 5/23: Designing Digital Tools For Youth Media Makers

January 2011

 * 1/24 :: Youth Participation in Haiti: New Ways of Sharing, Organizing and Engaging

December 2010

 * 12/13 :: End of the year celebration
 * 12/6 :: Presentation by Bettina Wanschura on urban planning interventions for youth participation and youth-empowering projects that she's been doing for the City of Vienna and other Austrian municipalities.

**November 2010**

 * 11/29 :: Leo Burd's presentation about an Activity Theory approach to the development of software for education [|http://web.media.mit.edu/~leob/msc_abstract.pdf]
 * 11/29 :: Presentation from Pedro Henrique Henriques Fernandes de Cristo about "Education and Public Safety in the Favelas of Brazil" (http://www.drclas.harvard.edu/brazil/events/lemann_fellow_seminar_de_Cristo)
 * 11/22 :: Presentation from Alix Beranger about the neighborhood mapping tool, followed by presentation from Paula Moreno Zapata, former Minister of Culture of Colombia and now an MIT Humphrey Fellow, about the national policy for digital culture that she created with her team at the Ministry.
 * 11/15 :: Working meeting with presentation from the Pinka team from Sloan

August 2010

 * Department of Play Summer Institute 2010

June 2010

 * Presentation at June Knight Foundation/C4FCM 2010 [|Future of News and Civic Media Conference], including hosting either community roundtable discussion and/or hands-on workshop using DoP tools such as Cartagen and Audio Tags [June 16-18th]

May 2010

 * Hold one or two Grassroots Mapping balloon/kite flights in Roxbury / Dorchester with members of the DoP community working group [May]
 * Monthly community working group meeting in local community group site, such as DS4SI or BCYF [May 5th 6pm] [[file:DOP-CMTY-MTG-0505.pdf]]

April 2010

 * Develop and test new tools such as Audio Tag with [|Design Studio for Social Intervention] youth in Roxbury, as part of their Youth City game [April/May]
 * Entry in MIT IDEAS Competition for My City, My Future: [] [April 15]
 * Develop and test a [|two week curriculum] on Grassroots Mapping tool se  t for high school youth with [|NuVu Studio] [April 12-23rd]
 * MIT Info Session for Summer/Fall UROP and other action research opportunities, April 28 3pm E14-240 - [[file:DOP-MIT-MTG-0428.pdf]]

Other

 * Develop and test Photo Story tool, in partnership with The Graduate Center at CUNY’s Children Framing Childhoods project (Wendy Luttrell) [Summer ’10]
 * Contribute input on technical tools as part of the proposed CUNY Child Friendly Cities Initiative (CFCI) Mapping Child Friendly Communities Guide for Community Organizations and Educators (proposed to UNICEF) [Spring/Summer ‘10]