CROWD SOURCED CITY is prototyping workshop class that investigates the use of social media and digital technologies for planning and advocacy. Students in the class work with planning and advocacy organizations to develop, implement, and evaluate digital tools to help further their mission.
Crowdsourcing presents an alternative civic engagement strategy that is not bound by time and location, because it can be performed on the web, mobile phones, or other media. Depending on how application are developed crowdsourcing can collect data, create a sense of community, solve problems, gather knowledge, help people in a crisis, or answer questions. This class tests how crowd sourcing techniques can be used for Urban Planning.
Acquire a solid background in how civic technology and crowd sourcing is currently being used for urban planning.