October 20, 2010 • 1:02 pm 0
Join us on November 3 for a Fall MIT DUSP Alumni Reception and Open House event for alumni and prospective students in the New York City area. Come to hear current trends in Planning, Design, and Development of NYC Schools from DUSP Alumna Sharon Greenberger (MCP ’93) and Department Head Amy Glasmeier. Meet and mingle with NYC-area colleagues, classmates, and old friends.
Filed under: Meeting Up, Networking
January 7, 2010 • 10:27 am 0
Dear NYC DUSPers,
Please save the date for a DUSP Alumni Reception with Department Head Amy Glasmeier on February 10 from 6 – 8 pm.
Come to connect with NYC alumni from all years, hear the latest news from DUSP, and meet the new department head. Prospective students are welcome, so please extend the invitation:
Food and drink provided
Cost – $20 for alumni, free for prospectives; any surplus will be donated to DUSP
Detailed Invitation, Location, and RSVP details will follow — hope to see you there!
– Whitney Foutz (MCP ’06, CRE’06)
Jonathan Rose Companies
Filed under: DUSP Updates, Meeting Up, Networking, alumni, NYC, reception
June 19, 2009 • 8:10 pm 0
Thank you all for coming to the first Boston Urban Exchange (BUX) on Wednesday night! We thought the evening was a great success, and we’ll definitely host at least another two meetups before the end of the summer (one in July and one in August).
Although we planned the event fairly quickly, turnout exceeded our expectations
We met young professionals working in the public, private, and civic sectors, with expertise in planning, urban design, real estate, architecture, artist space development, community development, organizational consulting, environmental activism, affordable housing finance and development, campus planning, GIS and data visualization, fundraising and development, executive recruitment, etc, as well as a some master’s and PhD students.
Over the course of the evening, we also watched the effects of networking unfold before our eyes. For example …
We think building these kinds of connections are awesome and we hope to see more!
The next Boston Urban Exchange is on a to-be-determined date in July. If you know anyone who would like to be added to our mailing list in anticipation, please tell them to drop us a line!
Best,
Angela + Gena
ps — We encourage you all to go to Common Boston’s D-Party tonight, as well as their other scheduled programs this weekend!
Date: Jun 19 2009 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Location: Thompson Design Group, 35 Channel Center Street in Fort Point Channel
Common Boston is a volunteer organization dedicated to expanding public awareness of the Boston area’s built environment through interactive programs, to fostering collaboration between design professionals and those for whom they design, and to collectively shaping a sustainable, equitable, beautiful built environment. All events during Common Boston Weekend 09 are free and open to the public. The second annual D-Party, Common Boston’s open-invite cocktail party, celebrates good work by community advocates and local architects and lubricates good conversation between them.
Filed under: Meeting Up, Networking
June 8, 2009 • 9:43 pm 0
Boston Urban Exchange
An informal gathering of planners and other urban-minded professionals in the Boston area
Wednesday, June 17th, 5:30-8pm
Middlesex, 315 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge MA
Boston Urban Exchange is an informal gathering of planners, architects, urban designers, developers, ethnologists, technologists, entrepreneurs, policy-makers, artists and all else who are care about urban development in the Boston/Cambridge region. This is our first event of the summer. If all goes well, we’ll have at least two more events (one in July and the other in August).
*No agenda or presentation. Just an opportunity to hang out and connect with other cool, young urban-minded people!
*Free! But you need to buy your own drinks. Also, we won’t stop you from being a dear and buying a drink for someone at the bar 🙂
Come! And feel free to invite people! The more, the merrier.
(Boston Urban Exchange is organized by Angela Insinger (ainsinger [at] gmail.com) and Gena Peditto (genapeditto [at] gmail.com). We look forward to seeing you there!)
TO HELP FACILITATE OUR PLANNING, KINDLY RSVP VIA FACEBOOK:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/event.php?eid=125112439568&ref=mf
Filed under: Meeting Up, Networking
June 5, 2009 • 12:51 pm 0
We’ve mapped out how DUSPers keep in touch just in time for graduation! Check out our gorgeous little database of the DUSP Constellation. You can filter the results according to 8 criteria, including how the information is managed, whether or not the site is good for your job search, platform used, etc.
Screenshot of MIT DUSP Constellation database
We would love to hear from you if you have any suggestions or comments, if you love it, or even if you hate it. Just to keep things organized, please post your comments on our previous post, “Request for help: where *do* DUSPers meetup?”
If the response is positive, maybe we could expand upon this database to include job search, helpful planning sites, and alumni blogs (just for example)? Let us know… !
Filed under: Meeting Up, Networking
May 15, 2009 • 1:22 pm 3
I need your help. I’m trying to identify all the points where DUSPers meetup. ALL of them: in-real-life, virtual, public, private, semi-public, semi-private, ad hoc, informal, formal, local, regional, national, international, etc.
Frank, Hattie, and I are going to turn all this info into a nifty, dynamic diagram and publish it by Friday 6/5/09 (just in time for graduation.. 🙂
So, please share what you know. You can send me (or Hattie, or Frank) a direct email, or you can comment on this post. Whatever works best for you.
Just please report back with your knowledge early and often!
Also, keep in mind that it would be great to keep things relatively simple. We’d like to start with the points that have a DUSP-focus; we can always scale up for a future iteration.
-Gena
Here’s what I’ve roughly pulled together so far:
Public points (visible and/or open to all)
Private/Private points (open to some)
Private points (members only, but not necessarily restricted access)
Filed under: Career Development, Meeting Up, Networking
May 4, 2009 • 12:31 pm 0
Boston-based DUSP alums are organizing a happy hour next week! Come! It will be informal, fun, and maybe even a little useful for those who are urban/planning-minded. Lots of possibilities.
The details:
To RSVP, or if you have any questions, please contact Angela Insinger (MCP’07) @ ainsinger[at]gmail[dot]com
Filed under: Meeting Up, Networking
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• Connect to our LinkedIn network (only if you are an student/alum/etc)
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