Summer Public Service Fellows/Interns begin their projects
Summer is here, and for the Public Service Center, that means our Fellows and Interns are either already hard at work at their destinations or getting ready to implement their public service projects around the globe. This summer, our students’ projects range from setting up a science lab and Internet connection at a school in [...]
IAP ’12 Public Service Fellows/Interns to Blog about Experiences
This IAP, Twelve PSC Fellows/Interns will blog about their experiences in the field. These students will be working in Nicaragua, Cambodia, Mexico, Sierra Leone, Kenya, India, San Francisco and even in neighboring Lawrence, MA. Read their descriptions below and be sure to check the’ Student Bloggers’ tab to keep up with their adventures: Mariko Davidson [...]
Leaving Los Angeles
BLOGGING FROM BOSTON Jaymes Dunsmore G, was in Los Angeles working with their Urban Design Studio to improve access to public transportation, increase pedestrian and bicycle safety, and enhance the quality of life in neighborhoods around existing and planned Metro stations. After a little over two months in Los Angeles, my work was complete, or [...]
Community Voices: If all politics are local, all local politics are about parking
BLOGGING FROM THE FIELD Jaymes Dunsmore G, is in Los Angeles working with their Urban Design Studio to improve access to public transportation, increase pedestrian and bicycle safety, and enhance the quality of life in neighborhoods around existing and planned Metro stations. With an issue as broad as transportation planning, in a city as diverse [...]
Reflections on a summer spent designing wheelchairs in Guatemala
BLOGGING FROM THE FIELDJuly 29, 2011 Public Service Fellow Paul Lazarescu ’13 is working with Transitions Foundation in Antigua, Guatemala, helping to develop a hybrid wheelchair that can be used both for everyday and for active use. After spending almost a month and a half in Guatemala, I feel that we’ve accomplished a great deal. [...]
What does ‘buy local’ mean to the people of Hawai’i?
BLOGGING FROM THE FIELD July 28, 2011 MIT undergrad and Public Service Intern Cydnie Trice is developing a marketing plan for the Hawai’i Alliance for a Local Economy this summer. For the past couple weeks, I’ve been surveying at local grocery stores and farmers markets around the island. We designed a survey for consumers aimed [...]
A portrait of production in Solo, Indonesia
BLOGGING FROM THE FIELDJuly 27, 2011 Graduate student and Public Service Intern Stephen Kennedy is working with an urban development and design non-profit Solo Kota Kita (Our City Solo). As you read this, some of you may be sporting a pair of fresh Nike kicks, tapping away on your Apple laptop, or consuming countless calories [...]
Instant TODs- Just Add Transit
BLOGGING FROM THE FIELD July 12, 2011 Graduate student and Public Service Fellow Jaymes Dunsmore is working for the City of Los Angeles Urban Design Studio to improve access to public transportation, increase pedestrian and bicycle safety, and enhance the quality of life in neighborhoods around existing and planned Metro stations. In many cities, creating [...]
The past and future of transportation in LA
BLOGGING FROM THE FIELD BLOGGING FROM THE FIELD Jaymes Dunsmore G, is in Los Angeles working with their Urban Design Studio to improve access to public transportation, increase pedestrian and bicycle safety, and enhance the quality of life in neighborhoods around existing and planned Metro stations. Los Angeles is often said to have a love [...]
Breakfast by boat in Banjarmasin, Indonesia
BLOGGING FROM THE FIELD Blog Post 02: June 30, 2011 On our first morning in Banjarmasin the Solo Kota Kita (SKK) team awoke for a 5:00 a.m. breakfast at the morning market. Our route, however, denied our land-locked sensibilities and instead took us on a waterborne journey through the city’s extensive river network, passing under [...]
Think Local First: A campaign to help local Hawaiian businesses
BLOGGING FROM THE FIELD In this post, MIT undergraduate Cydnie Trice introduces a four-part series on the challenges of building a local economy in Hawai’i. Trice is a marketing intern for the Hawai’i Alliance for a Local Economy this summer. June 21, 2011: Building the Local Economy, Hawaii Style First, lets start with a short [...]
Initial impressions of “Our City Solo”
BLOGGING FROM THE FIELD Blog post 01: Initial impressions of “Our City Solo”, June 9 2011 Stephen Kennedy signing on from Solo, Indonesia! I am Master of City Planning student in MIT’s Department of Urban Studies & Planning. This summer, I am embarking on my first trip to Indonesia with fellow classmate Alice Shay, where [...]
Blogging from the field
This summer, eight Public Service Fellows and Interns will be blogging about their public service project. Students will be working this summer in places such as Jakarta, Indonesia, Surrey, British Columbia in Canada, and in rural Uganda. A short description about the students’ projects is below. To read the blogs, click on the student bloggers [...]
A sustainable agricultural village in Hawaii
Public Service Intern Anne Emig (G, Course 4) worked in North Kohala, HI on North Kohala’s Sustainable Agricultural Village. Working with the Kohala Center, an independent non-profit research institute, the project focused on examining Hawai’i’s existing land use zoning in an attempt to identify the current impediments to developing clustered agricultural villages in existing agricultural [...]
