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# MDF MEETING NOTES 20211015

completely virtual! (and next week will be in person)

## AGENDA

### The Clusters --> Labs!
Last week all the clusters met for the first time and started to define their goals for the term. This week we had a bit of a wrench thrown into our physical space with the AC in the building breaking. So Time Cluster (aka time-talk-lab) and Illustration-Animation-Imagination Cluster (aka imagination-lab) were postponed to next week.

#### [data-space-lab](https://hackmd.io/mbpQ2nfQQoyj6EvYRHB6OQ): Tuesday 4-5pm
**who was there**: Zane, Queenie, Kangni, Tica, Marlon, Claire, Ammara, and Sophie
**what we did:** Zane led us through a Mapbox tutorial.
**what's next?**: let's think of ways to deploy mapbox and some next tools to learn.

**things we learned**
* prepping the dataset (and uploading it) in advance helps!
* once the data was in, things went really quickly
* maybe Data Wrapper next!
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#### [time-talk-lab](https://hackmd.io/6ShbJe_0Tn-8JjWsrm5ndw) : (Moved to Next Thursday 4-5pm)

#### [imagination-lab](https://hackmd.io/lnyLuNtNSNWF9C4JFvYqwQ) : (Moved to Next Monday 11am)

### Updates on New Projects for Courses & Depts

### IDEAS FOR JORDAN

* Harvard Lore
* One of the semester-long projects in GenEd 1097 (aka 'Tradition, Performance, and Culture' aka 'Intro to Folklore') is the compilation of a set of items of "HarvardLore". Each student is responsible for documenting fifteen items, which can be Harvard-centric superstitions, legends, jokes, rituals, etc. Students are encouraged to approach anyone who might be the holder of such knowledge - fellow students, d-hall workers, building managers, Deans, department admins - anyone - to get items for their collections.
* We were brainstorming over the summer a bit and thought it could be intriguing to show off some of these items on a dedicated website. With student permission, we could overlay the items on a map of Harvard's campus, and so create a sort of "tour" of HarvardLore. While they aren't required to collect images, geo-tagged images would be especially helpful for a site like this.
* A LOT of the items we get are very building specific, and I'd imagine there's a good chance the LLUFs will have already know a lot of the stories we're collecting. To start off, here are some buildings or landmarks which come up frequently:
* Johnston Gate
* The John Harvard statue
* Widener
* River Houses (for the River Run)
* Holden Chapel
* Dunster House (usually related to its ghost)
* But ANY location can be rich in local traditions
* NB: I know Lowell Brower, also in folklore, has been leading spooky campus tours for his currently running course "Supernatural Storytelling: Ghost-lore, Occult Legends, and the Politics of the Paranormal" - long term he might also like something like this!

* Architectural History
* document building elements that document a specific era
* split map view, one of harvard campus, and if you click on the data point/location, a global map on the right lights up with origination of style(s) found in the harvard building?
* react/coding lab - architecture texture guessing game

### NEXT UP!

here's [the link to the sign-up doc](https://hackmd.io/cLEYB_NjRF6GJ6s_GzndsQ)!

But here's a copy of what it says right now for your easy reference!

| date | mode | name 1 | name 2 |
| --- | -------- | -------- | -------- |
| 10/8 | in person | Jessi | Text |
| 10/15 | virtual | Queenie | Text |
| 10/22 | in person | Tica | Xiaomeng |
| 10/29 | virtual | Zane | Juhee |
| 11/5 | in person | Jessi | Kangni |
| 11/12 | virtual | Eduarda | Taylor |
| 11/19 | in person | Queenie | Juhee |
| 12/3 | virtual | Eduarda | Kangni |
| 12/10 | in person | Zane | Tica |