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		<title>GO4: SDPS&#8217;s services for New York&#8217;s New Jobless</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Chin Up! The students of the SDPS Spring 2009 class proudly present the full write-up of our end-of-semester assignment: GO4: A &#8216;Go Bag&#8217; for New York&#8217;s Recently Laid-Off GO4 is a suite of services for New York&#8217;s New Jobless, connecting people to resources they need for the arc of time between a layoff, surviving unemployment [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://itp.nyu.edu/sdps/2009/06/09/sdps_final_assignment/</link>
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		<title>The Safety Net: A NYT article echoes Nobu+Karla&#8217;s &#8220;investigative reporting&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jason DeParle&#8217;s article, The Safety Net, in this weekend&#8217;s New York Times, on scattershot access to services during this downtown is highly relevant to the class assignment. It is, if you like, equivalent to Nobu and Karla&#8217;s &#8216;investigative reporter&#8217; presentation &#8211; stage 1 of the design process: Stating the problem/framing the opportunity.]]></description>
		<link>http://itp.nyu.edu/sdps/2009/05/11/the-safety-net-a-nyt-article-echoes-nobukarlas-investigative-reporting/</link>
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		<title>Week 13-14: Ben&#8217;s Worklessness case study</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Live &#124; Work case study that Ben Fullerton showed at the end of week 13 is neatly summarized here. Download the pdf at the end of that article to see how the customer journey becomes the organizing framework for the whole presentation: It recurs not only to set the context of the audience experience, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://itp.nyu.edu/sdps/2009/04/28/week-13-14-bens-worklessness-case-study/</link>
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		<title>Weeks 13-14: Around town</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Related to the final assignment, I recommended these talks during week 13-14: Frank Duffy, ex-President of the UK&#8217;s RIBA (equivalent to the American Institute of Architects), talking about his new book, Work and the City, at DEGW An industrial study break with Urban Omnibus and WNYC to Newtown Creek &#8211; on Thursday Saskia Sassen&#8217;s lecture &#8220;What [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://itp.nyu.edu/sdps/2009/04/23/weeks-13-14-three-eventstalks-around-town/</link>
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		<title>Week 13: The Assignment &#8211; A Go Bag for NYC&#8217;s Recently LaidOff</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In weeks 12-13, you were assigned the task of conceiving and designing a Go Bag for the Recently Laid-Off. Instead of a bag full of products for surviving a physically situated emergency, you were asked to consider the suite of services this user group in NYC might want to access as the economic crisis affects [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://itp.nyu.edu/sdps/2009/04/23/week-13-the-assignment-a-go-bag-for-nycs-recently-laidoff/</link>
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		<title>SDPS food for thought</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This semester I have been meditating upon themes of urban mentality, emotional life in the city; the shaping of cities and probably most importantly the idea of designer as agency.  Because of this, I chose the latest reading Natural Capitalism, and the 5D’s of design methodology based on our discussion of IDEO’s design approach, as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://itp.nyu.edu/sdps/2009/04/14/sdps-food-for-thought/</link>
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		<title>Overview of &#8220;Million Dollar Blocks&#8221; Project by SIDL and the Justice Mapping Center</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Laura Kurgan of the Spatial Information Design Lab (SIDL) at Columbia University presented her work on the &#8220;Million Dollar Blocks&#8221; project at a lecture sponsored by the School of Visual Arts&#8217; Design Criticism (D-CRIT) Program. Our presentation group (Nobu Nakaguchi, Nahana Schelling, Sara Huong) attended the lecture and put together a short overview (Overview of Million Dollar Blocks) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://itp.nyu.edu/sdps/2009/04/14/overview-of-million-dollar-blocks-project-by-sidl-and-the-justice-mapping-center/</link>
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		<title>Week 12: Gems about public space all over the blogspace</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to Nobu and Ari for some great resources this week:Ideo&#8217;s Urban Pre-Planning methodology, featured in a Fall 2007 issue of Metropolis, here.The Geography of Buzz. Our friends at the Spatial Information Design Lab looking at LA/NY glamor &#8211; from Million Dollar Blocks to&#8230;million dollar frocks&#8230;wahhh.My review of Postopolis LA, in conversation with Alissa WalkerAnd, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://itp.nyu.edu/sdps/2009/04/13/gems-about-public-space-all-over-the-blogspace/</link>
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		<title>Week 11: Software as Service</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to a service snafu, Netflix didn&#8217;t deliver the movie we wanted to watch to address our &#8216;ethics&#8217; topic this week so that falls into week 12. By no means a runner-up, Eddie Opara of The Map Office stepped in to showcase the &#8220;MiG&#8221;, a Rich Internet Application that his team has conceived as a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://itp.nyu.edu/sdps/2009/04/13/week-11-software-as-service/</link>
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		<title>service design for public space</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I chose the Georg Simmel chapter from the Metropolis and Mental Life as my most influential piece of reading from this semester.  Simmel helped me articulate my interest in observing people as a way of understanding the way technology works with people and vice versa, without focusing on or fetishizing the technology itself. The most [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://itp.nyu.edu/sdps/2009/04/10/service-design-for-public-space/</link>
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