This hackathon is hosted by the GSD African American Student Union who have been working on a research initiative entitled “Map the Gap,” which investigates spatial, socioeconomic, and political inequities in ten U.S. cities. #HacktoMaptheGa will aim to bring together students, practitioners, academics, and community members to further conversations about inequity in the nation’s urban centers. You will gather data and information across four main categories including: housing, education, transit/job access and crime, and discuss the results of the research together. The initiative is rooted in U.S. current events. It analyzes recent police shootings by contextualizing fatal encounters within their built environment. This event hopes to drive constructive conversations around inequity, begin to reframe alternate modes of decision making/ policymaking, and offer a new model for learning and teaching within academia.
April 2, 2016
Harvard University-Graduate School Of Design, Cambridge
