From The Cooper Hewitt Museum:
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Dear NYC Digital Humanities group:
Next week at Cooper Hewitt, we will be hosting a program with digital pioneers and how they are using cognitive computing and data analysis to enrich city life. I’m hoping you might consider sharing with your audience. I am happy to offer a promo code for discount tickets: DigitalPioneer. Please let me know if you have any questions or need anything else.
(Tweet: https://twitter.com/cooperhewitt/status/829091344761094151)
Digital Pioneers and the Urban Environment
Wednesday, Feb. 15, 6:30–8 p.m.
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum (2 E. 91st Street)
Digital Pioneers and the Urban Environment
Promo code for discount tickets: DigitalPioneer
Across the United States, designers are using cognitive computing and data analysis to help American cities meet the needs of their diverse populations. Tiffany Chu, Code for America fellow and cofounder of the public transport data initiative Remix; Adam Cutler, distinguished designer at IBM Design; and Sarah Williams, director of MIT’s Civic Data Design Lab and cocreator of the City Digits: Local Lotto project, will discuss the promise and challenges of this important partnership with moderator Cynthia E. Smith, Curator of Socially Responsible Design. Remix and City Digits: Local Lotto are currently on view in the special exhibition By the People: Designing a Better America.
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