Interact | Ben | Activity https://interact.isucomm.iastate.edu/members/bens/activity/ Activity feed for Ben. Tue, 22 Jul 2025 14:41:12 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 a7c5a750e3bfb6f7906c00708efaba76 Ben wrote a new blog post Week 5: DECODE in the group Global Studio https://interact.isucomm.iastate.edu/global-studio/?p=822 Wed, 17 Jun 2020 12:56:32 -0500 Design is a political act.

The goal this week is to take some of the insights we learned from meeting the community and use it to critique your prior assumptions to develop a parti—a diagram that is your t […]

]]> d1d8833656b2cfb27a08558d79375d9d Ben wrote a new blog post Week 4 ASSESS in the group Global Studio https://interact.isucomm.iastate.edu/global-studio/?p=808 Mon, 08 Jun 2020 20:27:22 -0500 Monday Update

A quick follow up from class today. The recording of today’s review is available on CyBox. It hasn’t been transcribed yet, that takes a day or so.

Today: as discussed during the reviews, ple […]

]]> 125af1688e347600aca4c0e1efb58fbc Ben wrote a new blog post Week 3 ESTABLISH in the group Global Studio https://interact.isucomm.iastate.edu/global-studio/?p=710 Tue, 02 Jun 2020 13:16:32 -0500 This week we move from discovering and understanding to establishing the criteria for the rest of the semester. The map above is our study area and the link goes to the map on Google Maps. Teams all agreed that […]

]]> c79ccc6eee14602f307a8c5298075181 Ben wrote a new blog post Week 2 Understanding in the group Global Studio https://interact.isucomm.iastate.edu/global-studio/?p=609 Thu, 28 May 2020 13:30:40 -0500 This week we shared our figure grounds and explored Queretaro through expert inquiry. All in preparation for competition proposals due at the end of next week (June 4) as we celebrate our first […]

]]> e8d9c2447c75849d923431f9d337be0b Ben wrote a new blog post Mapping with MapHub in the group Global Studio https://interact.isucomm.iastate.edu/global-studio/?p=538 Wed, 27 May 2020 19:29:46 -0500 Tutorial on using MapHub and WordPress to embed maps in your team pages

Map hub is a free website where you can make maps and add pins, routes, polygons that can be shared with others and embedded on the […]

]]> 6d718da7eb866efe0914e6a964447b85 Ben wrote a new blog post Coronovirus is not fuel for urbanist fantasies in the group Global Studio https://interact.isucomm.iastate.edu/global-studio/?p=437 Tue, 26 May 2020 14:09:40 -0500 This moment should be about reassessing our broken cities. Read more:

]]> 173600300005f63b39a73fe9c9f701c0 Ben wrote a new blog post Fear of Cities in the group Global Studio https://interact.isucomm.iastate.edu/global-studio/?p=434 Tue, 26 May 2020 14:04:24 -0500 There are three natural enemies of urbanism: crime, terrorism, and pandemics. In the 1970s and 1980s, crime seemed like an existential threat to American cities. In the 2000s, it was terrorism. And today […]

]]> 1860dde3529c7bc32cff30ef2e70fe92 Ben wrote a new blog post Meet our teams! in the group Global Studio https://interact.isucomm.iastate.edu/global-studio/?p=429 Tue, 26 May 2020 13:45:12 -0500

]]> f6a88dfd90eca133cef51cb932fdd064 Ben wrote a new blog post End of Week 1 Update in the group Global Studio https://interact.isucomm.iastate.edu/global-studio/?p=354 Thu, 21 May 2020 18:28:22 -0500 Key takeaways today: all of the SuSE grad research areas are
well aligned with our topic. Hunter: POPS—I think about the news on reserving
public spaces like beaches; Paige: Urban landscape and Public Health; M […]

]]> a108d122f1f12a1031f69322b1aae8e6 Ben wrote a new blog post Week 1: Discover in the group Global Studio https://interact.isucomm.iastate.edu/global-studio/?p=288 Wed, 20 May 2020 19:35:35 -0500 Monday 5/18

Introductions and “New
Rituals”Studio Logistics: Syllabus;
Online, Remote Project Teams, Team LeadersAssign teamsIntroduction to Course and
review of syllabusUrban Design in […]

]]> 553cace743606ebc3e20cfa4e644062d Ben Shirtcliff wrote a new blog post test post on expert categories in the group Global Studio https://interact.isucomm.iastate.edu/global-studio/?p=281 Wed, 20 May 2020 18:44:04 -0500 test

]]> 60c290c12357c82b1beb5086ea74ee62 Ben and rshannon are now friends https://interact.isucomm.iastate.edu/activity/p/1572/ Wed, 20 May 2020 17:40:36 -0500 0 98bf1482da0dc5e03375374517b22a92 Ben wrote a new blog post Public Space Research in COVID in the group Global Studio https://interact.isucomm.iastate.edu/global-studio/?p=240 Tue, 19 May 2020 17:48:26 -0500 Public Space Research in COVID

The Public Space Research Group organized by Setha Low is actively soliciting information from around the world.

The Knight Foundation is actively pursuing the topic of public […]

]]> 157ee6f62631951c5fa72b788655297b Ben joined the group Global Studio Team 3 https://interact.isucomm.iastate.edu/activity/p/1536/ Tue, 19 May 2020 17:12:29 -0500 0