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Syllabus 2024

Data, Design and the City (DDC) will run from week one to week eleven in semester two. Classes will be on:

  • Tuesday's: 14:10 - 16:00, Chrystal MacMillan Building, Seminar Room 5
  • Thursday's: 9:00 - 10:50, Chrystal MacMillan Building, Seminar Room 1

The course will be organised around team-based projects. The project work will be broken down into five phases, which are described below.

Phase 1: Preparation (weeks 1 - 3)

Date Topic Materials Read/Watch Before
16 Jan Course Overview
18 Jan Recorded talk City Mobility Plan
23 Jan Guest Lectures Matt Davis, Sustrans Scotland

Stella Kyratzi, University of Edinburgh
25 Jan Simon Chapple, University of Edinburgh

Kirsty Lewin, Infrasisters

Josh Ryan-Saha, TravelTech Edinburgh Futures Institute
30 Jan Steve Cassidy, Fuse Mobility

Cate Heeney, Transport Scotland
1 Feb Jamie Thin and Ian Maxwell, Spokes

Phase 2: Design Sprint (week 4)

Date Topic Materials Read/Watch Before
6 Feb Design Sprint / Fieldwork
8 Feb Presentations of design sprint

Phase 3: Digging Deeper (weeks 5 & flexible learning week)

20th Feb flexible learning week

Date Topic Materials Read/Watch Before
13 Feb Introduction to Data and Focus Groups
15 Feb Research Ethics and Data Management
20th Feb - NO CLASS - use this week to conduct your focus group!
22nd Feb - NO CLASS - use this week to conduct your focus group!

Phase 4: Development (weeks 6-8)

Each of these sessions has some learning of new matieral, and the students work on their projects

Date Topic Materials Read/Watch Before
27th Feb Participatory Design
29th Feb Focus Group Findings
5th March Finding and Using Existing Data
7th March Data Visualisation
12th March Participatory Design and Group Work
14th March Introduction to Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Mapping

Phase 5: Reporting (weeks 9-10)

IN this section the students prepare and present their intervention ideas.

Date Topic Materials Read/Watch Before
19th March Participatory Design Showcase
21st March Dry Run Presentation and Feedback
26th March Final Presentations
28th March Briefing on Final Report

 

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