Nueva alianza de MIT con grupos comunitarios busca amplificar las voces de las minorías en Boston - y tú puedes participar elplaneta.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from elplaneta.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Caption: “The center’s mission goes to the heart of what my work is about voice,” says Cesar McDowell. “My passion is figuring out how people who are systematically marginalized by society can voice their lived experiences to the world, and as a result participate as full members of society. I’m looking forward to helping CCC design research and civic solutions that will work for a broader set of people down the road.”
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Ceasar McDowell, MIT professor of the practice of civic design and associate head of the Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP), has been named associate director for civic design at MIT’s new Center for Constructive Communication (CCC).
has been charged by Chancellor Cynthia Barnhart and Provost Martin Schmidt with engaging the MIT community in the foundational work of developing a statement of shared values, one that is grounded in universal ideals but also speaks to MIT’s distinctive character and culture. The Committee is co-chaired by two MIT alumni: Daniel Hastings SM ’78, PhD ’80, head of the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Cecil and Ida Green Education Professor, and Tracy Gabridge ’88, deputy director of the MIT Libraries. They spoke with MIT News about ideas and themes that are emerging in the committee’s conversations, and the process of creating a statement that reflects the voices and values of the MIT community.
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Ceasar McDowell and the group We Who Engage MIT have issued a report, “The Civic Design Framework: principles for public conversations during a time of crisis,” detailing methods they recommend for effective public dialogue. McDowell is professor of the practice of community development and associate head of MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning.