Divergent Metropolis

Divergent Metropolis

a proposal for Encuentro 8Cities | Bodies | Action26 Sept. 2011México, DF

Social Agency LabRice AnthropologyTxRx

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Index3 Abstract

4 Project Specifications

5 Who We Are • Resumes

15 Supporting Documents / Previous Projects

22 Media Coverage

23 DVD

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AbstractThe city is an immense laboratory. Governing late-liberal political and economic rationales have imposed a bifurcated world, expressed in highly regimented normative urban forms and spaces simultaneously by both capital and governance.

Meanwhile, a variety of local experiences and affective encounters inhabit both types of space and the boundaries between them in alternative ways that escape any rigid taxonomy. Urban communal gardens, DIY hacker spaces, participatory urban planning groups, and art collectives, among others, have emerged to intervene, transform and revitalize urban spaces. These interventions lie at the intersection of sentiments of doom and sentiments of hope for a different future, an affective and effective landscape shaped by the increasing retreat of the state and the privatization of public life.

Composed of members who have affiliations to and affinity for these alternative urban livelihood experiences, we propose to revisit the Situationist dérive, a methodology for mapping experience and affect in physical public spaces, in a late-liberal world where public life and private lives are not easily distinguished. In our project, we bridge virtual public formation with physical urban environments, personal experience with collective emotions, as we raise questions about how sociality, urban design, subjectivity, virtual spaces and territorial scales interact. We seek to analyze the linkages and disconnections between the individual and larger, scaler contexts.

The actualization of the Situationist critique on the perceptual and experiential alienation in mass society is our point of departure. The Situationists worked within the framework of the height of state power in mid-twentieth century France, a radically different polity than the late-liberal rationales we experience today. However, the spectaularization of lived experience, the individual as passive spectator of her own life, remains a current preoccupation. The commercialization and commodification of life and experience, salient in the thriving industries of advertisement and marketing, and the intertwining of physical worlds and virtual worlds in daily life beg the reappropriation of Situationists methodologies. Indeed, more so than before, the promise of a new world, constructed by and for ourselves, is within our reach.

Taking advantage of technological platforms unavailable at mid-century, and moving through our own networks of urban interconnectedness, we propose to collect and perform dérives in different cities of the world, creating a platform for virtually interconnected exchange of experiences and affective outlooks on what it means to inhabit and experience the city. In other words, moving from affect to effect. Individual urban dwellers start their dérives from the financial center of the cities drift into and through culturally significant urban landscapes and borderlands that become alive and plural. We propose to map the different routes via GPS technology and upload them into a web page along with logs, pictures and sounds that we share among a community of drifters. In doing so, we invite all the participants to embody the experience of drifting away from our known economic spheres, and to reflect on the subjective encounters that this practice sponsors.

For Encuentro, we specifically propose a visual installation and an urban intervention in this vein. On an outdoor public wall, we will project the different routes of drifters around the world. During one of the conference days, we will go on a dérive, open to the public. Following the dérive, we propose a round table in the physical space of the visual installation to reflect on alternative ways of reclaiming the city by drifting from normative claims of useful urban encounters, whether through DIY hacker practices, participatory urban planning and planting, community-based art movements and affective politics. We will record the round table and upload the information to our web page.

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Technical SpecificationsWe propose a visual installation and an urban intervention through a performative drift through México City during the conference, followed by a round table in the physical space of the visual installation.

The visual installation will layer cartography, visual, aural and written experiences of drifting through cities around the world collected through our website, currently under construction, and will be used as a jumping off point for our exploration of México City during the conference.

We would prefer an outdoor space for the visual installation. This can be a simple city wall. We will require a projector and sound system.

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Who We AreSocial Agency Lab is a collaborative of urban planners and designers who believe that social relationships should be the basis for a generative design process of better urban places. We were founded out of a desire to place social agency at the forefront of designing urban space, and to creatively bring together multiple design disciplines including urban design, service design, program design, architecture, and policymaking in one group that can flexibly engage urban planning in design discourse. Kate Balug, Christina Calabrese and Zakcq Lockrem will participate in this project.

Rice Anthropology is one of the most respected and creative programs for anthropological study in North America. Transcending disciplinary boundaries, the department emphasizes experimental methodological designs and addresses on-going theoretical and collaborative reflections on expert cultures in the contemporary world. Lina Dib, Michael R. Griffiths and Maria Vidart-Delgado will participate in this project. Dib is an anthropologist and artist. Dib’s work reflects on technologies of memory and prosthetics. As an artist, she has exhibited in Houston, New York, and Montreal. Vidart-Delgado is an anthropologist whose work addresses the way publics are created and disseminated. Griffiths is a PhD student in Rice’s English Department whose work addresses biopolitics, visual culture, and globalization.

Tx/Rx Labs is Houston’s Hackerspace., a project-based team of makers with backgrounds in the creative arts: electronic circuitry, music composition, 3D printing, computer science and security, screenprinting, fashion design, and even haute cuisine. Our goals are to bring creative people together, to serve as an incubator for imaginative solutions for everyday problems, to make opaque scientific and technical concepts accessible to everyone through education, and to provide much-needed services to our community, made possible by the skills and passion of our membership. Rex Baker, Chris Cauley, and Kelly O’Brien will participate in this project.

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Kate BalugArtist + Cultural Urban Producer

Kate Balug works as an artist and producer of cultural urban projects. Her current research includes an examination of critical imagination as a tool to redefine urban paradigms, intervention at various

scales in under-resourced communities, public life, mapping, and youth agency. She will spend the next academic year on a fellowship in Mexico City, researching the above topics, learning Spanish, and relishing one of her favorite cities. She is from Poland, and plays drums and recently badminton in her spare time.

Professional ExperienceFields Corner Collaborative Boston, 2011 •Coordinator,MyDotTour

Institute for Transportation and Development Policy Mexico City, 2010 •Intern

Lauren Bon’s Metabolic Studio Los Angeles, 2006 to 2009 •ProductionAssistant

Selected Project Experience2011 •MyDotTourDorchester,MA

•ChoiceLeadstoVisionMumbai,India

2010 •ExploremosNuestroCentroHistorico MexicoCity,Mexico •MyCity,MyFutureRiodiJaneiro,Brazil •Providence:TheSpaceforFlowsProvidence,RI

Academic ExperienceDepartment of Play, MIT Center for Civic Media Cambridge, 2009 to present •Co-Founder,Researcher

Select Grants and Awards

Harvard University Sinclair Kennedy Traveling Fellowship 2011 to 2012

Harvard Graduate School of Design Druker Traveling Fellowship 2011 •Finalist

MIT Ideas Global Challenge Competition $3,000 Prize 2010

Harvard GSD Community Service Travel Fellowship 2010

EducationHarvard Graduate School of Design MasterofUrbanPlanning

University of Southern California BachelorofArtsinStudioArtsandFrench

Recent Publications•SocialInfrastructureoverPhysicalInfrastructure(2010) inA View on Harvard GSD.MohsenMostafavi,ed. Cambridge:HarvardUniversityGraduateSchoolof Design.•DotAve.Project:WhatWouldyouAddtotheAvenue? (2010)DorchesterReporter,Boston,December9,4.•Tobiedobrze-mnielepiej(GoodforYou,BetterforMe) (2007)NowyDziennikWeekend,NewYork,September 22,7.

Recent Presentations and Exhibitions•MITDepartmentofPlaywithLeoBurd,MIT-KnightCivic MediaConference,Cambridge,MA(2011)•TouringofftheBeatenPath:MyDotTourMassachusetts HistoryConference,Worcester,MA(2011)•ChoiceLeadstoVision:HowtoMaketheMostof ExtremeUrbanisminMumbai’sBackBayReal EstateAcademicInitiativeatHarvardUniversity, Cambridge,MA(2011)•CollectiveIdentityandArt:AnExperimentinDorchester InvitationtoSpeakSeminaratHarvardGraduate SchoolofDesign,Cambridge,MA(2011)•MITSIGUSWorldUrbanForum5RiodiJaneiro(2010)•MarketCollectiveexhibition,PhantomGalleriesLA, LongBeach,CA(2009)•ThanksCraigCollectiveexhibition,TheLandingParty Gallery.LosAngeles,CA(2009)•CommunityDrivenUrbanPlanningThankTank2008.Los Angeles,CA(2008)

www.socialagencylab.org www.twitter.com/socialagencylabwww.facebook.com/socialagencylab

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Christina CalabreseUrban Planner + Designer

Christina Calabrese is an urban planner and designer living in Brooklyn, New York. Her research focuses on the interplay between physical and virtual civic space: their spatial attributes, their social functions,

and the degrees to which they foster or inhibit publicity and privacy, solitude and belonging.

Professional ExperienceHart Howerton 2010 to present •Designer

Hyde Park-Holy Trinity Cultural Corridor 2010 •ProjectAssociate

MASS Design Group 2009 to 2010 •GrantWriter

Asian Community Development Corporation 2008 •RealEstateDevelopmentIntern

ecoMOD3 Design | Build Team 2007 •Designer

Design Corps Summer Studio 2005 •Design|BuildTeam

Selected Project Experience2011 •CommunityDevelopmentPlan,Environmental Guidelines,andEco-tourism RecommendationsCaboSaoRoque,Brazil •AdaptiveReuseintheFederalTriangle Washington,DC •OutdoorClassroomRaleigh,NorthCarolina

2010 •CommercialRetailandOutdoorRecreation CenterParkCity,Utah •WilhelmsburgNeighborhoodRedevelopment PlanHamburg,Germany

2009 •LandTenureandPropertyRightsDevelopment PlanDiamniadio,Senegal •PlacemakingStrategiesAquidneckIsland,Rhode Island

Community InvolvementCenter for Urban Pedagogy 2011 to present

Academic Experience

2011 CUNY NYCCT Architectural Technology Mentor2010 Harvard Graduate School of Design CareerDiscoveryInstructor2010 MIT DUSP ResearchAssistant2009 Harvard Graduate School of Design TeachingAssistant


University of Virginia BachelorofScienceinArchitectureandFrench

Recent Publications•SystèmeD:Self-propelledResourcesforDesign EducationinPublicInterest(Forthcoming) inBridging the Gap: Architectural Internships in Public Service.GerogiaBiziosandKatieWakeford, Eds.•ReadingandConstructingSpatialNarratives(2010)in GSD Platform 3.Barcelona:Actar•CoreUrbanPlanningStudios(2009)inGSD Platform 2. FelipeCorrea,Ed.Barcelona:Actar.•ecoMOD:ExploringSocialandEnvironmentalJustice throughPrefabrication(2008)withJohnQualein Expanding Architecture: Design as Activism.Bryan BellandKatieWakeford,Eds.NewYork:Metropolis Books.

Selected Grants and AwardsHarvard Graduate School of Design 2010 •UrbanPlannngandDesignThesisPrize

Augustus Clifford Tower Fellowship 2010 to 2011

Sarah McArthur Nix Fellowship 2006 to 2007

Harrison Undergraduate Research Award 2006 to 2007

Habitat for Humanity Public Service Fellow 2005 to 2006


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Zakcq LockremUrban Planner + Designer

Zakcq Lockrem is an urban planner and designer for Asakura Robinson and an adjunct professor of urban planning at Texas Southern University in Houston, Texas. He has contributed to projects

from sustainable transportation to green building in California, New England, the Gulf Coast, Mexico and West Africa. His recent research has focused on building community capacity through public engagement for better planning outcomes.

Professional ExperienceAsakura Robinson 2011 to present •UrbanPlannerandDesigner

ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability 2010 to 2011 •RegionalAssociate

Alta Planning + Design 2009 to 2010 •PlanningConsultant

Selected Project Experience2011 •GreaterEastEndManagementDistrictMobility StudyHouston,Texas •ClearLakePedestrianandBicyclistStudy Houston,Texas •AirlineImprovementDistrictPed/Bike ImprovementsHarrisCounty,Texas •BetterBlockHoustonHouston,Texas2010 •GreenOfficeChallengeCampaignManagement Houston,Texas •RegionalDevelopmentandRecoveryPlan ArtiboniteDepartment,Haiti

2009 •LeKinkelibaArtistsColonyMasterPlan Tambacounda,Senegal •Car-FreeChallengeCampaignManagement SanFrancisco-Oakland,California •AquidneckIslandVisualConservationPlan AquidneckIsland,RhodeIsland •GreenStreet(CalleVerde)ProjectMexicoCity, FederalDistrict,Mexico

Community InvolvementCitizens’ Transportation Coalition 2011 to present •Vice-Chair

Planners Network 2008 to present •MembershipandChaptersCommittee •Cofounder,BostonChapter

Livable Streets Alliance 2009 to 2010 •BoardMember

Academic Experience

2011 Texas Southern University Adjunct Instructor2010 Wentworth Institute of Technology GuestStudioCritic2010 Boston University GuestStudioCritic2008- 2009 Boston University TeachingFellow


Boston University BachelorofScienceinUrbanAffairs

Recent Publications•LocationMatters:CompleteStreetsandLivable CenterswithRobinHolzer(2011)TheJournalof GreenBuilding•MyHouston2040withJayBlazekCrossley,RobinHolzer andMatthewTejada,Eds.(inpreperation).•BYNYCFORNYC.ORGwithChristinaCalabreseand AlexandraMiller(2011)inAn Atlas of Possibility for New York City.NewYork:Institutefor UrbanDesign.•EcologicalUrbanismConferenceBlog(2010)in Ecological Urbanism.MoshenMostafaviandGereth Doherty,Eds.Baden:LarsMüllerPublishers.

Recent Presentations•CulturalUrbanismwithLeilaBozorg,SarahNusserandSara Zewde,CongressforNewUrbanismNextGen Conference,Madison,Wisconsin(2011)•CompleteStreetsandLivableCenters:WhyLocation MatterswithRobinHolzer,GulfCoastGreen, Houston,Texas(2011)•L’hommedanslacité:Expo‘67andtheSpatialization ofIdentityinQuébecUrbanAffairsAssociation Conference,NewOrleans,Louisiana(2011)


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LINA DIB [email protected]

EDUCATION Ph.D. Anthropology, Rice University, Houston, TX (2005-present) B.Sc., M.Sc Anthropology, Université de Montréal, QC (1999-2005) DEC Fine Arts, Cégep St-Laurent, QC (1996-1999) RESIDENCIES Artist in Residence, TX/RXlabs, Houston, Texas (2011-present) Artist in Residence, Topological Media Lab, Hexagram, Montreal (2009-2010) PhD Internship, Information Studies, Sheffield University, UK (2008) SELECTED POSITIONS HELD Instructor, Bodies, Sensualities and Art, Anthropology department, Rice University, (Summer 2011) Multimedia Consultant, Digital Media Center, Rice University (2009-2010) Researcher, EPIT project: The Ethics and Politics of Information Technology, Rice University (2006-2008) Assistant Director, Rice Cinema, Rice Media Center (2006-2007) RECENT EXHIBITIONS 2011 While you crept up behind me, The

Compound, Houston, TX, Oct Le temps des oiseaux, MECA, Houston, TX, July Sound affect #5 - Houston 8am, Box 13 Art Space, Houston, TX, March

2010 Recantorium, Ethnographic Terminalia, Barrister’s Gallery, New Orleans, LA, Nov.-Dec. Sounds for Stairs, Box13 Art Space, Houston, TX, Sept.-Oct. IL Y A, with Xin Wei Sha, Production team, CCRMA, Stanford, CA, Sept. Recantorium, Fotofest 2010, Rice Project Gallery, Houston, TX, March

SELECTED GRANTS and AWARDS Rice Humanities Research Center Dissertation Writing Fellowship (2009-2010) Vaughn Graduate Study Fellowship (2010) AMIDA training grant, European Community, Framework 6 Program in Information Society Technology (2008) Social Science Research Council of Canada Doctoral award (2007-2009) C.P. Snow Fellowship, Scientia Institute, Rice University (2007-2008) RECENT PUBLICATIONS “Time Matters: Designing for Evidence” In Feminist Theory out of Science, Special Edition, Differences, Duke University Press, (eds.) Roosth, S, and Schrader, A. (forthcoming, 2012) “Of Promises and Prototypes,” In Prototyping Prototyping, Episode 3 of The Anthropology of the Contemporary, (ed.) Kelty, C. (2010) “FM Radio: Family Interplay with Sonic Mementos,” Computer Human Interaction Proc. (CHI), ACM Press 2371-2380, with Petrelli, D., Villar, N., Kalnikaite, V., Whittaker, S. (2010) “Sonic Souvenirs: Exploring the Paradoxes of Recorded Sound for Family Remembering,” In Computer Supported Cooperative Work Proc. (CSCW), ACM Press 391-400, with Whittaker, S., Petrelli, D. (2010) Nominated for best paper award RECENT PRESS REVIEWS Campbell, C. “Terminus: Ethnographic Terminalia,” Visual Anthropology Review 27(1): 52-56, 2011. Boyer, D. “A Gallery of Prototypes,” Visual Anthropology Review 27(1): 94-96, 2011 Rozelle, J. W. “Engaging with the Everyday,” Rice Magazine, December issue, 2010 Morris, B. “Art and academia align at Freret gallery,” Uptown Messenger, Nov 18, 2010 Afra, O. “Interview: Lina Dib and Sounds for Stairs,” Free Press Houston, October issue, no. 120, 2010

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Michael R. Griffiths Tel: 713-540-9079 Email: [email protected] Curriculum Vitae PhD Candidate in English at Rice University. Lodieska Stockbridge Vaughn Fellow in the Humanities 2011-12, Rice University. Education. Rice University. Houston, TX, USA. PhD 2010-present. Certificate in the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality. Rice University. Houston, TX, USA. Master of Arts, 2010. University of Western Australia. Perth, Australia 2001-05. Bachelor of Arts in English and Cultural Studies; 1st Class Honours (BA Hons 1). Areas of Research and Teaching Specialization Cultural Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Animal Studies, Critical Theory (biopolitics, posthumanism, deconstruction), Film Studies. Selected Publications. “Production Values: Ford and Formalism in North by Northwest,” forthcoming in Postmodern Culture. Vol. 20, 3 (May 2011). “‘The Tame From the Wild’: Handling Biopolitics and Subjection at the Emergence of Capital,” Humanimalia. 1, 2 (Winter 2010). <http://www.depauw.edu/humanimalia/>

Selected Presentations and Panels. Bios, Nomos, Cosmos: Space and Citizenship in the Settler Colony. “Imperial Mechanisms,” Postcolonial Studies Division Panel, Modern Language Association (MLA), Los Angeles CA 2011. The Correspondence of Bernard O’ Dowd and Walt Whitman: A Transnational Look at Appropriations of Indigeneity and the Cosmopolitics of Literary Nationalism. Australasian Literature and Film Panel, South Central Modern Language Association (SCMLA) Conference, Fort Worth TX 2010. Lodieska Stockbridge Vaughn Fellow in the Humanities 2011-12, Rice University. Caroline S. and David L. Minter Summer Research Grant, Rice University 2011. Wertheim Prize for Best Graduate Student Paper, American Association of Australian Literary Studies (AAALS) Washington 2010. C. P. Snow Student Fellow, Scientia: an institute for the history of science and culture founded by Salomon Bochner, Rice University 2007-08. Vocational Experience Fondren Library Film Series Videographer, Editor. Promotional and Instructional Films Series 2008. Media Consultant at Digital Media Center, Rice University 2006-10. Languages French: Reading certified by Rice University Language Resource Center 2006.

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Maria Vidart-Delgado 1508 Hawthorne St. Houston, TX 77006 Phone: (832) 790-7696 [email protected]

EDUCATION Rice University, Houston, TX PhD in Anthropology expected May 2012 Rice University, Houston, TX Master of Arts in Anthropology 2009 Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology, minor in History 2004

AWARDS Lodieska Stockbridge Vaugh Fellowship-Rice University 2011-2012 - For outstanding achievement and promise

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS Can Politics be virtual? Reflections on Social Media Uses in Political Campaigning In Crowds and Clouds, LIMN No. 3. Chris Kelty, Stephen Collier, and Andrew Lakoff, eds. Forthcoming November 2011

“That’s how you win elections”: Electoral Transactions, Political Consultancy and the Personalization of Politics in Colombia’s Democratic Reform In Altérités: Revue d’anthropologie du contemporain 8 (1): forthcoming November 2011

RECENT SCHOLARLY INVOLVEMENT

Co-Organizer with Robert Samet. “Democracy without Adjectives” Panel. American Anthropological Association Meeting 2011. Montreal, Canada November 2011

Participant. Law and Society Association-Graduate Student Workshop. San Francisco, California. May 31st-June 1st 2011.

PhD Candidate in Cultural Anthropology interested in public formation, class and political subjectivity in late liberal political institutions.

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Doctoral Research for Dissertation - Bogotá, Colombia (September 2009 - October 2010) Principal Investigator

I analyze how notions about class within the framework of participatory politics inform the practices of political managers during elections in Colombia. I trace how these practices create class-based fragmented publics with differentiated forms of political engagement, political subjectivity and public emotionality.

SELECTED COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT Citizen’s Transportation Coalition. Houston, TX (2011-Present) Volunteer - Outreach Committee.

Misión de Observación Electoral - Bogotá, Colombia (January - June 2010) Project Coordinator

Organized, coordinated and participated in the missions of international NGOs and civil society organizations observing the colombian congressional and presidential elections in 2010.

www.votebien.com - Bogotá, Colombia (December 2009 – May 2010) Invited Blogger

Contributed opinion blog entries analyzing the campaigns’ communication strategies during the Colombian electoral period of 2010.

Rice Cinema- Rice University, Houston, TX (2006-Present)- Lead Projectionist and Cinema Director’s Assistant.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE Lonestar Community Collage - Houston, TX (Spring 2011) Instructor

• Instructed the course Introduction to Anthropology.

Pontificia Universidad Javeriana – Bogotá, Colombia (Spring and Fall 2010) Instructor

• Designed and instructed the course Contemporary Theories in Anthropology.

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Rex G. Baker IV+1.713.291.3048 – [email protected]

1508 Hawthorne St. – Houston, Texas 77006

EDUCATION JD (with Honors), University of Texas School of Law, Austin, TX – Aug. 2006 – May 2009

BA in Social Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA – Sep. 2001 – Jun. 2006Honors Thesis: Construction of Kurdish Identity in Iraq (Thesis received mark of cum laude.)Awarded Language Citation in Modern Standard Arabic in Jun. 2006.

Damascus Summer Arabic Program, Damascus University, Syria – Jun. – Aug. 2007Studied Modern Standard Arabic as well as Syrian Colloquial Arabic in an 8-week program for foreignstudents. Was placed in the Advanced Class (highest of 3 levels).

EMPLOYMENT Associate Attorney – Gardere Wynne Sewell, Houston, TX – Jan. 2010 – presentNegotiate, draft and review legal documents with respect to transactions in the following areas: mergers andacquisitions, commercial lending, goods and services. Draft memoranda on a variety of commercial legal topics,both domestic and international. Focus primarily on the energy industry.

Graduate Researcher – Office of the Independent Ombudsman, Texas Youth Commission, Austin, TX –Sep. 2008 – May 2009Wrote research reports and memoranda on juvenile justice reform: SB 103 and Rising Adult Certification Ratesin Texas Juvenile Courts, January 2009; Memo on Mental Health Discharge, Residential Treatment Centers,and Federal Funding Sources, April 2009.

U.S. DoD, Coalition Provisional Authority, Baghdad, Iraq – Oct. 2003 – Apr. 2004Worked as a civilian in the Office of National Security Affairs, Coalition Provisional Authority in the SeniorIraqi Leadership Outreach Program recruiting Iraqi citizens for high-level positions in the Iraqi Ministry ofDefense and Iraqi Armed Forces. Managed warehouse renovation project for the IAF at Taji Military Base.Traveled throughout Baghdad and northern Iraq.

TECH Knowledgeable in C++/Processing/Wiring in connection with Arduino microcontroller platform. Proficient inMicrosoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access, in addition to similar types of software. Familiar with CNCplasma cutting, soldering, basic carpentry.

HONORS/ Harvard College Scholarship – Feb. 2002CERTS Honorary scholarship for academic achievement at Harvard.

Eagle Scout – Nov. 2000

ACTIVITIES Member, TX/RX Labs – Mar. 2010 – presentNonprofit organization in Houston, Texas focusing on technology, art, and adult education. Affiliated with theglobal hackerspace/maker movement.

Member, Texas Journal on Civil Liberties & Civil Rights – Sep. 2007 – May 2009Journal at the University of Texas School of Law focusing on civil liberties and civil rights.

Harvard Krokodiloes (a cappella) – Oct. 2001 – Aug. 2003, Sep. 2005 – May 2006Associate Tour Manager, Kroks of 2003. 12-member all-male a cappella group associated with the HastyPudding Club.The Tour Manager plans and supervises a Spring Break trip to Bermuda, as well as an 11-week,six-continent world tour. During the school year, the group rehearses over 12 hours each week, plus two to sixhours weekly in private performances.

LANGUAGES Limited working proficiency in Arabic, Spanish.

SUPERPOWER Capable of learning anything with alarming speed.

INTERESTS The global hackerspace/maker movement, the role of money in media and politics, rehabilitation of the publicsphere, international travel, juvenile justice, music performance/composition, electronics design.

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CHRIS CAULEY OVERVIEWI am a web developer who has worked in all aspects of the web for the past two years. Before that I spent three years programming electrochemical simulations in Python and Matlab. I am passionate about programming and my goal is to learn new techniques in front-end and back-end webdevelopment. 1. EMPLOYMENT AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE – Chris Cauley

2011 Mouth Watering Media Web Developer

● Back end development using Python, Django, uWSGI and PostGres● Front end devlopment using HTML, CSS, and Javascript (esp. jQuery)● Continued development on culturemap.com, a local online magazine● Independently developed 3 other sites and improved 12 other sites

2010 – 2011 Advanced Research Corporation, Newport, OregonWeb Developer and Systems Administrator

● Back end development using Python, Django, and MySQL with a dash of PHP● Front end development using HTML, CSS, and Javascript (esp. jQuery)● System administration (from OS install to deployment) using Ubuntu, LAMP, and bash scripting● Project management using Trac, Redmine, Subversion, and Git● Test engineering for PhaseNet program, developing test plans and procedures, setting up test

environment and conducting tests on R&D positioning and timing program for US Air Force 2009 – 2010 Webjig, LLC - Salt Lake City, Utah

Web Developer● Developed web applications for introplay.com, an online exercise-based social network site● Back-end programming using Python, Django, and MySQL● Site development using HTML, CSS, Javascript, and jQuery

2007 – 2009 University of Utah - Salt Lake City, Utah

Research Assistant● Programmed computer simulations of ion channel measurements● Performed electrochemical research using state of the art instrumentation● Performed in-depth analysis of chemical data to find statistical trends

2005 – 2007 University of Utah - Salt Lake City, Utah

Lab Supervisor● Managed a staff of 30 undergraduates who prepared chemicals and supervised lab courses for

900-3000 students (varied by semester)● Maintained chemical instruments and supplies for lab classes ● Maintained a yearly $120,000 budget for the undergraduate labs at the University

2. SKILLS

● Familiar with all aspects of web design (planning, hosting, development, and maintainence)● Able to integrate APIs of other sites (Google Maps, Facebook, Twitter, etc.) into new products

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2020 Commerce StHouston, TX 77002 Kelly O’Brien [email protected]

(651) 283-7293

Professional Experience: Tyco Thermal Controls

Application/Design EngineerHouston, TX

Mar. 2010 – Present

Applied engineering principles to compose thermal hydraulic models of single and multiphase flow problems

Used FEA and CAD programs to calculate steady state and transient heat transfer in order to design downholeheater systems, downhole tools, and high current connection systems

Created installation manuals, BOMs, and design guide for downhole heating systems

Development and implementation of quality control procedures, quality assurances, ITP and turnoverdocumentation for DHH systems

Project EngineerHouston, TX

Jan. 2008 – Mar 2010

Completed schedule preparation, material procurement, and resource forecasting for downhole heating projects

Gained international experience as a downhole heater subject matter expert to perform site supervision, qualitycontrol, testing/monitoring, safety oversight, and commissioning of electrical heating systems.

Witnessed FAT, shipping compliance mandates, and performed material inspection

Technical Experience

TX/RX LabsActive member of a nonprofit technology collective

Houston, TXSep. 2010 – Present

Applied micro controller, 3-D printer, CNC, milling machine, lathe, plasma cutter, welder, servo & steppermotors, turbine diffusion pumps, and many other technologies for designing, prototyping and inventing.

Mission Statement of group: The goals is to bring creative people together, to serve as an incubator for freethought and inquiry, to produce art, inventions, and ideas that challenge convention, solve problems, and createa meaningful community in the process.

Design ProjectTeam Member

Fargo, NDJan. 2004 – Aug. 2006

Formulated and produced composite mixtures from recycled plastics and industrial fillers to obtain desiredmaterial properties.

Applied ASTM codes to design test fixtures, test plans, and data acquisition system to obtain material propertiesof composite samples.

Conducted extensive research and lab work on HDPE composite railroad cross ties in order to develop amanufacturing process that reduced cost and manufacturing time.

LaboratoryUndergraduate

Fargo, NDJan. 2004 – Aug. 2006

Experimented with material testing, PLC simulations, circuit design, thermodynamic cycles, hydraulic simulationsand fluid flow analysis.

Developed technical communication skills from reporting laboratory data in written lab reports andpresentations.

EducationNorth Dakota State UniversityB.S. Mechanical Engineering (GPA 3.0)

Fargo, NDConferred Aug. 2006

Affiliations

ASME Member IEEE Member NCEES - Passed FE, April 2009

Technical focus

Fluid Dynamics

Thermodynamics

Strength of Materials

Hydraulic Systems

Machine Design

Heat and Mass Transfer

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Supporting Documents /Previous projects

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Type: Mapping workshop, 2010

Client: Self (MIT IDEAS Competition Prize, Harvard GSD Travel Fellowship awards)

Participant: Katarzyna Balug + Alix Beranger

Description: My City, My Future is a workshop designed to empower underserved youth through narrative mapping of their home communities. The first workshop was a three-week program in Favela Santa Marta, a recently pacified slum in Rio de Janeiro that is undergoing improvement while collectively healing after years of drug and criminal warfare in its surrounds. The workshop engaged five local females who negotiated the problems of repre- sentation and legimization within larger Rio through low-cost aerial mapping, storytelling, and drafting a community action plan.

My City, My FutureRio de Janeiro, Brazil


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Type: Social Practice Community Development

Client: Fields Corner Collaborative

Participant: Katarzyna Balug

Description: My Dot Tour occurred in Dorchester, in a stigmatized, under-resourced and highly diverse district of Boston. Hired local youth examined the area’s past and present states, developed critical ideas for its future, and developed a performative public walking tour. Through a partnership with the MIT Center for Civic Media, multimedia components on the street and online invite continued public dialogue about the neighborhood. The introduction of participatory critical visioning in a usually consumptive activity (walking tour) and the occupation of contested public spaces through a cultural intervention sought to generate civic engagement and improve youth agency.

My Dot TourDorchester, Massachusetts


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Placemaking StrategiesAquidneck, Rhode Island

Type: Studio Project

Client: Harvard University Graduate School of Design

Participant: Christina Calabrese

Description: This studio addressed settlement form; visual and scenic impact of development; relationship of accessibility to location; the location and utility of open space and the roles of large-scale spatial concepts in shaping the built environment. This model is a matrix of fortifications, common grounds, view points, and view corridors on Aquidneck Island, representing sites' “elasticity," or capability to serve multiple functions for residents and visitors.


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This interactive installation foregrounds the human impulse to collect objects, and to imbue these collected things with personal meaning. Literally, a heap of objects belonging to local Houstonians accumulates and disappears. Accompanying audio narratives relating to the special meanings these objects have for their owners are wound and rewound based on the viewer’s motion. Time, narrative and movement are conflated, and gallery visitors can literally “scrub” the work: using their bodies to start, reverse and fast forward the flow of time, as well as the accumulation of the collected memories.

Programming with JS Rousseau from the Topological Media Lab, Montreal Canada

Recantorium (2010) Lina Dib

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Houston soundscapes animate the main staircase of Box13 ArtSpace for this interac-tive exhibit. Making the mundane whimsical and otherworldly, Dib’s installation defamil-iarizes, and recontextualizes sounds to create a dynamic sonic postcard, orchestrated by the up and down movements of the visitors. The staircase turns the world inside out by bringing into the quiet gallery space reverberations, swishes and clatters that usual-ly dwell outside. Blurring the boundaries between the constructed environment and na-ture, this intervention makes architecture pliable and responsive. Through interactions, the soundscapes are reassembled, but never repeated. When someone lingers on the steps, so do the sounds; and when visitors climb up and down, the sounds coalesce, with a few surprises along the way.

Programming with Navid Navab and JS Rousseau from the Topological Media Lab, Montreal, Canada

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The field, the lab, and the studio are places of production rather than display, sites of creation rather than exhibition, places for searching horizons and researching results. They are the place where the actual is carved or crafted from the possible; the real is cut away from the simulated. They are sites that synthesize reality.

Like these sites Le Temps des Oiseaux (the time for birds), is about sensing the difference between reality and artifice. Fifty to seventy jet-black birds composed of paper, wire and car paint hang from the ceiling in an area of two by three meters. When the viewer approaches, they shiver or agitate. Proximity sensors and vibration motors cause more birds to shutter as the viewer approaches closer or faster. Sensing changes. On the wall, dead house flies are pinned and hanging in glass encasing, indifferent to the birds’ or the viewers’ movements. The stillness of real flies contrasts with the movement of constructed birds and viewers.

The birds’ shadows further decouple the link between the real and the constructed, motion and stability. The shadows of the birds are painted on the wall from their still position. When birds shudder, their shadows move, leaving behind the painted shadows traced on the walls, like imprints of stability that become ever more obvious with each step the viewer takes.

Programming with Rex Gavin Baker IV from TX/RXlabs, Houston, USA

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Media Coverage- Building Better Cities 24 Hours at a Time. Wendy Siegle. Marketplace. NPR. 5 Aug 2011.

“It’s all part of a 24-hour stunt to turn a boring urban block into a vibrant one overnight. Lockrem and more than a dozen volunteers will pick up trash, and set up food stalls and cafe seating on the sidewalk.”

- Art and Academia Align at Freret Gallery. Benjamin Morris. Uptown Messenger. 18 Nov 2010.

“We were interested to see how visual media, art, and anthropology come together in a particular space...”

- MyDotTour Fields Corner Walking Tour. Staff. Dorchester Reporter. 29 July 2011.

“Theatrical in nature, the tours aim to enrich public life in Dorchester, celebrate the recent history and current amenities of Fields Corner, and provide a platform for sharing ideas about future improvements. They feature a selection of notable sites identified and researched by local teens with help from archives, residents, and local institutions. To enhance the tour experience, each My Dot Tour stop hosts a street sign with location information accessible by phone, and via quick response (QR) code, an information-richcode that can be scanned using a smart phone.”

- Residents Get Street Smart. Lisa Gray. Houston Chronicle. 31 Aug 2011.

“Temporary paint will outline hard-to-miss bright-green bike lanes on the street, and planters full of street trees will create a pedestrian-friendly zone. A “pop-out cafe” in a temporary, portable building will populate one parallel parking space, showing how an unnecessarily wide street can yield public space; high-end food trucks will perform the same service at other spots. And a nifty specially made bike rack will demonstrate that it ’s possible to fit up to 15 bikes in the space it would take to parallel-park just one car..”

- Interview: Lina Dib and Sounds for Stairs. O. Afra. Houston Free Press. Oct 2011.

“Blurring the boundaries between the constructed environment and nature, this intervention makes architecture pliable and responsive. Through interactions, the soundscapes are reassembled, but never repeated.”

If you want a better urban life, invent it, then fight for it. -Manuel Castells

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