Schedule
Course Times and Locations 2020
| Wednesdays | 11:10 - 13:00 |
| Fridays | 11:10 - 13:00 |
| Every Friday | Lister Learning and Teaching Centre room G.09 |
| All other Wednesday class meetings | Lister Learning and Teaching Centre room G.09 |
Course Schedule 2020
Unlike many standard courses at the University, Data, Design and the City (DDC) will be organised around team-based projects. The project work will be broken down into five phases, which are indicated in the table below. The structure of the projects is described in more detail in the Project Overview.
Course Times and Locations 2020
| Week | Phase | Date | Topic | Materials | Read/Watch before | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 15-Jan-2020 | Course Overview | Slides 1 | Readings: Hengstenberg, Eckardt and Benneworth. "Reflections from a living smart campus." Villegas, Palacios-Pacheco, and Luján-Mora. "Application of a Smart City Model to a Traditional University Campus with a Big Data Architecture: A Sustainable Smart Campus B. Williamson. "The hidden architecture of higher education: building a big data infrastructure for the ‘smarter university’" Additional: Knox, J. (2017). Data power in education | ||
| 17-Jan-2020 | Investigating the Smart Campus and Future University Guests: Ben Williamson, Chancellor's Fellow, Education and EFI; | Slides 2 | ||||
| 2 | 22-Jan-2020 | Introduction to 'Smart Campus' Guests: Simon Chapple, ISG, IoT Programme, Ian McNeil, Head of Infrastructure, SSPS; | W2 Slides 1 Sampsa Hyysalo Slides | 1. Design Video 2. Double Diamond overview 3. The City of Tomorrow 4. Kenneth Cukier and Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, 2013 “The Rise of Big Data,” Foreign Affairs 5. Oliver Bates and Adrian Friday.2017 "Beyond Data in the Smart City: Repurposing Existing Campus IoT." 6. Lisa Gitelman and Virginia Jackson,2012 “Introduction in “Raw Data” is an Oxymoron,” 7. Shannon Mattern, 2013Methodolatry and the Art of Measure. A New Wave of Urban Data Science. | ||
| 24-Jan-2020 | Fieldwork Preparation 1. Dean Drobot, Head of Energy & Utilities Management, Estates Department 2. Sabine Rolle, CAHSS Dean for Undergraduate Studies | W2 Slides 2 | Optional Reading: 1. Waste is Information pp. 1-20 and 53-86 (access on Learn) 2. Visualising Advocacy pp. 4-13, 23-31 | |||
| 3 | 29-Jan-2020 | Sustainable campus: Matthew Lawson, Social Responsibility and Sustainability Design probes: Bettina Nissen, Lecturer, Design Informatics; Research ethics: Charles Raab, Professorial Fellow, Politics | W3 Slides 1 Charles Raab Slides - Ethics Nissen - Design Tools for Data Collection | 1. Collecting Primary Data: Observation, from Doing Research in the Real World, pp 238-261. 2. University of Edinburgh Data Protection Policy | ||
| 31-Jan-2020 | Fieldwork | W3 Slides 2 | ||||
| 4 | 05-Feb-2020 | Fieldwork and Presentation Prep | W4 Slides | |||
| 07-Feb-2020 | Team Presentations | Chris Hellawell slides | ||||
| 5 | 12-Feb-2020 | Introduction to Data & Focus Groups | W5 Slides 1 FG guidance FG checklist Moderator guidance Form Templates | 1. Conceptualising Data by Kitchin 2. “Database as genre" by Ed Folsom (access in Learn) | ||
| 14-Feb-2020 | Data Management & Team Tutorial | W5 Slides 2 DataStore Instructions | 1. DataStore Instructions 2.Database as Genre by Ed Folsom (on Learn) 3.Optional Introduction to Raw Data is an Oxymoron by Lisa Gitelman and Virginia Jackson, pp 1-14 | |||
| 19-Feb-2020 | Festival of Learning | |||||
| 6 | 26-Feb-2020 | Focus Group Findings | Slides FG Analysis Guide | |||
| 28-Feb-2020 | Participatory and Values Based Design | Class PD Activity Slides PD Methods PD Prep Questions | 1. Participatory Design for, with and by communities, by DiSalvo, Clement, and Pipek (access through Learn) 2. From the Technical to the Political: Democratizing Design Thinking by Staten et al. | |||
| 7 | 04-Mar-2020 | Finding and Using Existing Data | Slides | Data-Driven, Networked Urbanism by Rob Kitchin Data Flow in the Smart City: Open Data Versus the Commons by Beckwith, et al | ||
| 06-Mar-2020 | Data Visualisation | Slides Slides | 1. Graphic Discovery by Wainer (access on Learn) 2. William Playfair and the beginnings of infographics | |||
| 8 | 11-Mar-2019 | Participatory Design Workshop | Slides | |||
| 13-Mar-2020 | Geographic Information System | 1. An Introduction to Critical Cartography by Crampton and Krygier 2. Sara McLafferty. Women and GIS: Geospatial Technologies and Feminist Geographies. Cartographia 40.4, 2005. (see Learn) | See Resources | |||
| 9 | 18-Mar-2020 | Participatory Design Showcase | Slides | |||
| 20-Mar-2020 | Dry-run presentations, peer feedback | Guy Kawasaki on the 10:20:30 Pitch A set of Videos on Presentations on Youtube | ||||
| 10 | 25-Mar-2020 | Final Team Presentations | ||||
| 27-Mar-2020 | Briefing on Final Report |