Eric Joseph Siegel

Map of the Decade: The Future of Food in 2022

Sun, 11 Nov 2012 14:20:00 -0500

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 Technology.

Read the description — or — Download the Map

Learn what the Institute for the Future is all about on their website or with this short video

Food Week

Sun, 11 Nov 2012 14:15:00 -0500

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 Quiz Game and the Online Food Fight. These two events alone reached upwards of 250 students. You can see what remains for the Online Food Fight and learn more about Tufts Food Week on the webpage Eric designed: www.FoodTufts.com.

Food Week Website

Sun, 11 Nov 2012 14:14:00 -0500

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

Sun, 11 Nov 2012 14:10:00 -0500

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 brisket with sustainable, local, ethical meat? The bi-coastal film profiles local Bay Area and Boston eateries; asking what it means to eat sustainably. Linking the farmer to the butcher to his mother’s home, Eric invites audiences into his own kitchen as he takes tradition into his own hands and starts a new tradition.

Full film: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFHAmK8SAwo

Two-Minute Preview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pc_nDDM1y0

See the OpEd about it in the J-Weekly newspaper (March, 2013): http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/68102/vegetarians-sustainable-brisket-honors-his-mom/

Product Information: What Do We Want to Know?

Sun, 11 Nov 2012 14:05:00 -0500

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

Sun, 11 Nov 2012 14:03:00 -0500

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 ‘revitalize’ the area have drawn the attention of urban planners and anti-gentrification activists alike. This cognitive mapping exercise was meant to help the public understand how current users of the square perceive its boundaries.

Learn about the square and see the maps here: http://unionsquaresomerville.tumblr.com/

“Walking the Median” documents the process of walking from Tufts University to Boston’s Logan Airport. The most direct route, through Cambridge and downtown Boston is closed to pedestrians. The journey on foot winds through an eclectic mix of neighborhoods in Chelsea, Everett and East Boston. This website attempts to immerse the viewers in the experience through a range of multi-media pages.

You can follow the journey here: http://loganbound.tumblr.com/

Celery Regularly: 91.5fm WMFO

Sun, 11 Nov 2012 14:00:00 -0500

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 clip

http://soundcloud.com/ejsiegel/celery-regularly-opening_3_12_10

Crisis Mapping Scenarios

Sun, 11 Nov 2012 13:50:00 -0500

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 real-time on Tufts campus, using information texted to the FronlineSMS system from the participants on the air-soft field on Cape Cod.

The final map can be viewed here: https://comootros.crowdmap.com/

A thorough plan of action for an established NGO in the event of a massive earthquake in Rabat, Morocco. Here is the final plan for the World Food Program (UN-WFP), written by Eric Siegel:

Part 1: http://tuftscrisismappingclass.com/2011/04/01/world-food-programme-crowd-map/

Part 2: http://tuftscrisismappingclass.com/2011/04/19/world-food-program-concluding-post/