2008 Campus-Community Partnerships

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Abstract: ZIP CODES is a joint project of the Camino Nuevo High School in Los Angeles, the UCLA Center for Statistical Computing, and Daly Genik Architects. In form, it is a public information display, a second skin that stretches across the west- facing façade of the high school itself, overlooking the intersection of Beverly and Vermont Boulevards. In function, it is a series of special courses and educational experiences that will help students navigate the shifting terrain of new information technologies. As these new technologies blur the lines between professional and non-professional practices, and as data networks continually jump personal boundaries, entangling physical lived space and virtual realms of communication and data processing, students need more than traditional functional training with new software or hardware. Instead, ZIP CODES will focus on the scientific, social and cultural implications of these technologies, providing students with critical reasoning skills and giving them access to these technologies on a day-to-day basis.