ALTERNATIVE BODIES II

Spring 2011 studio

DIVST 300-05 CCA, San Francisco

Instructor: Dr. T. Hammidi

Students,
Here is your blog for the length of our studio together. ENJOY.

ASSIGNMENT:
Read the conference announcement below & take notes.

Continue to read this blog entry for requirements of your FINAL PROJECT.

COURSE REQUIREMENTS:
1) Studio attendance, completion of studio exercises and homework; one essay; one proposal; one final project.

2) Read this blog regularly. Your instructor will provide information on this blog once a week (Sunday's). You are responsible for the material in it.

3) All due dates and further details discussed in class.

4) Full class attendance is always required.

5) Always bring your sketchbook and drawing utensils to studio.

FINAL PROJECTS

composed of two parts: PROPOSAL and FINAL PROJECT

WHAT:

Each of you will be doing a FINAL PROJECT organized around a population that is considered "difficult to reach." Your instructor will give you a list of 5 'difficult to reach' populations, from which you must choose ONE group.

HOW:

Next, write up a visual and verbal PROPOSAL to study this group, employing the research and illustration techniques we have been practicing in studio. Your proposal should be a tight, cogent description of the target 'difficult to reach' population your design/final project is going to reach. Describe the method you will be using to reach this population, which includes in large part participant-observation ethnography. Finally, your PROPOSAL will draw upon some of the social and political theories described in our textbooks this semester. Read these books with hunger. You are expected to explain thoughtfully the importance of the theory you choose that has most greatly effected your design practice, evidenced in the final project.

Each student will present their PROPOSAL for group crit. Final projects will reflect strong considerations of critiques generated during this group discussion. Your final project should be attentive to improving your weakest skills, which will then in turn strengthen your best skills.

FINAL PROJECT is due the third week of April (see syllabus). Students will present their FINAL PROJECTS the final weeks of class: 2 hour group crits.

Have a great semester - I look forward to pushing your art and design practices forward.

~ Dr. Hammidi

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International Conference on Methods for Surveying and Enumerating Hard-to-Reach Populations

October 31–November 3, 2012

Marriott New Orleans at the Convention Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A.

The H2R 2012 conference will bring together survey methodologists, sociologists, statisticians, demographers, ethnographers, and other professionals from around the world to present new and innovative techniques for surveying hard-to-reach populations. Addressing both the statistical and survey design aspects of including hard-to-reach groups, researchers will report findings from censuses, surveys, and other research related to the identification, definition, measurement, and methodologies for surveying and enumerating undercounted populations.

Potential topic areas include but are not limited to:

Identifying, Defining, and Measuring the Hard-to-Reach (H2R)

Defining H2R populations

Measuring undercounts for H2R groups

Improving measurement with administrative records

Sampling H2R populations

Techniques and Methodologies

Recruitment methods

Targeting the H2R

Use of social marketing and outreach campaigns

Overcoming language and literacy barriers

Use of community-based organizations

Dealing with complex living and housing situations

Tracking and tracing H2R populations

H2R Subpopulations

Racial minorities

Immigrant populations

Indigenous populations

Highly mobile and migrant populations

Homeless and refugee populations

Sexual minorities

Populations affected by natural disasters

Populations in zones of armed conflict

Stigmatized populations

Cross-cultural similarities and differences in H2R populations

Linguistic and cultural minorities

Calls for Submissions

February–March 2011: Invited Call for Submissions

April–May 2011: Contributed Call for Submissions

For information, visit www.amstat.org/meetings/h2r/2012 or emailH2R2012@amstat.org.