On Monday, October 28th URBAN.Boston held another networking event, this time in the Mattapan neighborhood of Boston. This event included small group round tables where researchers and community members had the opportunity to connect, share ideas and resources, and plan possible research + action strategies around issues facing Boston communities. Housing, community development, and transportation are examples of the types of issues discussed. (more…)
Many students in MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP) are enrolled this fall in Civic Media: Codesign Studio, a course offered through the school’s Comparative Media Studies Department. In fact, the TA for the course is DUSP PhD. Check out the class blog to get a glimpse into how Read more…
The Mel King Institute is hosting an Innovation Forum to highlight a new report on CDCs and Academic Partnerships Massachusetts. They invite you to come hear the results of the report and engage with panelists who will share their stories of CDCs and institutions working together. The Innovation Forum will be held on November 21 from 9am-12pm at the Amilcar Cabral Center ( African American Institute, at Northeastern University, 40 Leon Street, Boston). (more…)
URBAN.Boston is pleased to announce the availability of seed funding to incubate collaborative research projects during the 2013-2014 academic year. Made possible by the generous support of the Edward W. Hazen Foundation, these seed grants may be used for (1) the development of a new collaborative research proposal or (2) Read more…
MIT@Lawrence is a sustained, multi-faceted partnership between the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the City of Lawrence, MA, a small, ethnically diverse city 30 miles northwest of Boston. Over the partnership’s 10-year history, faculty and students from many MIT programs have worked together with Lawrence residents, civic institutions and community-based organizations to address problems facing the city. Projects have addressed abandoned and foreclosed property management, neighborhood revitalization, and “cleaning and transforming” polluted canals and alleyways. (more…)
The MIT@Lawrence Story Project was a culminating product of nearly ten years of collaboration that examined the partnership through dozens of interviews with participants. The project was motivated in part by a need to report the outcomes of a multi-year HUD Community Outreach Partnership Center grant. But Lawrence residents were interested in the project as a way to develop new narrative about their city, to tell a story that celebrated diversity, resilience and collective action. A small group of MIT students worked closely with Dr. Hoyt to conduct interviews, which were video-recorded, and edit them into a 15-minute film. (more…)