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Week 1: Strategic Design and the City

Schedule

Morning (8:45-12:45)

  • Opening (8:45-9:00)
  • Lecture: Course introduction (Gerd Kortuem) (9:00-10:00)
  • Workshop: Case study analysis (10:00-12:00)
  • Discussion (12:00-12:30)
  • Closing (12:30-12:45)

Afternoon (13:45-17:45)

  • Opening (13:45-14:00)
  • Lecture: AI in Amsterdam (Thijs Turel, AMS Institute) (14:00-15:00)
  • Workshop: Design debrief (15:00-17:00)
  • Discussion (17:00-17:30)
  • Closing (17:30-17:45)

Homework

Readings:

  1. Crawford, K., & Paglen, T. (2019, September 19). Excavating AI: The Politics of Images in Machine Learning Training Sets. Excavating AI. https://excavating.ai
  2. Gebru, T., Morgenstern, J., Vecchione, B., Vaughan, J. W., Wallach, H., Daumé III, H., & Crawford, K. (2020). Datasheets for Datasets. ArXiv:1803.09010 [Cs]http://arxiv.org/abs/1803.09010

Activities:

  • Collect street-level images for inspiration

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