November 2012
8 posts
Map of the Decade: The Future of Food in 2022
IFTF Alternative Scenario Map of the Decade Intern Project
Built into Google Earth, this map illustrates what 2022 might look like in a small American city based on four different scenarios: Growth, Constraint, Collapse, and Transformation. Big Data and Climate Change are the main drivers in these worlds. The map explores 5 content focus areas - Health, Food, Education, Development, and Mobile...
Food Week
Tufts’ First Food Week
Eric Siegel co-directed Tufts University’s first food week. A leader in the student group Tufts Food for Thought, Eric organized and collaborated on 13+ events on Tufts campus and in the Boston area in an effort to raise the level of awareness and discussion about the American food system on campus. As a part of this celebration, Eric created the Food Chain...
Food Week Website
FoodTufts.com
Created as the promotional and organizational center for Tufts Food Week 2012. Eric used Intuit’s website builder, Google Docs, Flickr and Chatroll to design an interactive experience. The site was also the location of the Online Food Fight! held on October 25th at 10:37am.
Link to the site: http://www.FoodTufts.com
Brisket: From Generation to Generation
Brisket: From Generation to Generation
A 40 minute auto-ethnographic documentary created as final project for: Sensory Ethnography and the Boston Foodscape
“I don’t eat red meat…except for my mom’s brisket.” Follow Eric, a curious sustainable-minded college student, as he uncovers the animated stories of his Jewish matriarchs in his mother’s kitchen. Is it possible to re-create the traditional...
Product Information: What Do We Want to Know? →
A blog post written for the Institute for the Future discussing the latest technological developments and political debates surrounding consumer awareness of food consumption.
http://www.iftf.org/future-now/article-detail/product-information-what-do-we-want-to-know/
Anthropological Research
Eric has beautifully digitized two of his recent urban anthropological studies of the Greater Boston Area:
“Perceptions of Union Square” involved the creation and distribution of an ethnographic survey. Participants were asked to draw a map of Union Square, Somerville, MA. The small commercial square was once the heart of a thriving industrial economy and recent efforts to...
Celery Regularly: 91.5fm WMFO
Celery Regularly, hosted by Eric Siegel, ran from 2-3am early Friday mornings on WMFO 91.5FM, Tufts Freeform Radio Station. The show’s theme changed each week and Eric was often accompanied by a rotating cycle of guest co-hosts. A variety of music, news and witty banter filled the airwaves, hearts and souls of anyone brave enough to tune in the wee hours of the night.
Listen to a...
Crisis Mapping Scenarios
Crisis Mapping Scenarios
The final project for the course was twofold:
The implementation of crisis mapping technology in the midst of FieldEx2011 Civil-Military Field Training Scenario— a 24 hour simulation of a violent-conflict zone involving students from Tufts and Westpoint role-playing state military, rebel forces, civilians, politicians and NGO workers. The map was created in...
