Week 2 Detail Feb 03

Spring 2020 • Clarisa Diaz • Mondays • 5:00-7:30pm • Washington Square SILV 402

Schedule: Week 2

wk	Monday
1	Feb 03 Feb 06 Beyond Plastics Forum 6PM, Ethical Culture Society. Feb 09: Last day to drop Spring 2020 classes and not receive a grade of "W". Refer to the NYU academic calendar.
class	Share moodboards in class. Watch Is Your Plastic Actually Being Recycled? Discussion of reading. Sketching & Positive/Negative Space Lecture. Data Visualization lecture. Exercise: How many ways can a number be visualized. Photoshop Basic Tools Tutorial for Personal Consumption Visualization Log. Research plastics in NYC and the Hudson River. Look for datasets.
assignment	Start Personal Plastic Consumption Log, post each day on blog (7 days, 7 posts). Post your outputs from in class exercise, How Many Ways Can A Number Be Visualized on your blog. Write a response to the activity and visualization lectures. Apply what you're learning to a sample from Hudson River's data (Hudson Pollution Analysis assignment.) Read and write a response on your blog:	How the Plastics Industry Is Fighting to Keep Polluting the World