Kolpokoushol Summer 2016 Workshop
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Overview
Kolpokoushol is an antidisciplinary initiative that aims at flourishing the research-driven innovation model nurtured at the MIT Media Lab. It is essentially an experimental lab disguised as a workshop. The workshop comprised of multiple lectures conducted by researchers from esteemed institutions (Harvard, Cornell), and more importantly, a “learning by doing” aspect.
Workshop Content/Lectures
- What is Antidisciplinary Thinking?
- Access, Visibility and Voice Issues surrounding Data, News and Media
- Design Thinking
- Democracy in Cyber Space – who has the power?
- Introduction to Network Science
- Rapid prototyping primer
Projects
Design Thinking in action
As part of the Design Thinking lecture, we were asked to prototype two concept products - a custom cloth hanger and a bin that encourages others to stop literring - by gathering feedback from client and iterating as per the Design Thinking process.
The Story of Keywords
The Story of Keywords is a primer data parsing and visualization experiment that involved mining data from local Bangladeshi newspapers, extracting core keywords from articles and visualizing them in an effort to better understand news coverage. In another words, this was "News about news".