>>planning and building villages Yes! Le Corbusier comes to mind: Chandigarh, capital city of 2 Indian states!đ âChandigarh, the capital of the northern Indian states of Punjab and Haryana, was designed by the Swiss-French modernist architect, Le Corbusier. His buildings include the Capitol Complex with its High Court, Secretariat and Legislative Assembly, as well as the giant Open Hand Monument. The nearby Rock Garden is a park featuring sculptures made of stones, recycled ceramics and industrial relics.â - it doesnât mention the pedestrian-only central core of the city..
Something about Village Telco should be appropriate, especially those projects where the village was the protagonist and techies just âhelpers,â as mr. Rogers, hardly a techie, would say. stephen.s...@gmail.com should have reading material, and Regards / Saludos / Grato AndrĂ©s Leopoldo Pacheco Sanfuentes > On Nov 1, 2018, at 4:57 AM, Louis SuĂĄrez-Potts <lui...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hiâ > Yosem, are you interested in focusing on praxis or theory or history? > Acknowledging here that one cannot rigorously separate the three, > stillâobviously--a course that looks at what has been done in the name of > social good (by any party) and also what has actually worked (as evaluated > by⊠) would differ from a course that downplays the fraught nature of any > well-intentioned intervention, technological or notâand that's not even > taking into consideration national operations and interests. > > And, I am guessing you are not only interested in tech for social good far > away (i.e., outside the US) but nearby? And, also, material that would > include village planning, architecture, etc.? I refer to the latterâplanning > and building villages-- b/c it's relatively unglamorous among tech circles > but as a field it's exciting; and it also has a history. (I distrust things > that hide their history.) > > I'll ask some friends not subscribed to this list who have relevant > experience. Andâwhat level? Undergrad? Grad? Research seminar? > > Cheers, > Louis > > >> On 2018/10/31, at 23:09:22, Yosem Companys <ycompa...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi All, >> >> I'm putting together a syllabus for a Tech for Social Good course, and I was >> wondering whether you or anyone you know have any syllabi or readings to >> recommend. >> >> The readings could be anything from published research to media articles. >> They can be seminal papers or just a good read. They can be from any >> discipline or field. >> >> Thanks, >> Yosem >> -- >> Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of >> list guidelines will get you moderated: >> https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, >> change to digest, or change password by emailing the moderator at >> zakwh...@stanford.edu. > > -- > Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of > list guidelines will get you moderated: > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, > change to digest, or change password by emailing the moderator at > zakwh...@stanford.edu.
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