Can you tell me more about the virtual reality project with Cornell Tech?
RIVAA Gallery artist Laura Hussey answered:
Tapan Parikh’s class, Remaking the City is envisioning what the architecture
on Roosevelt Island might look like in the future based on the population,
location and cultural diversity of Roosevelt Island.
Students will work in teams and design and build a physical model of their
designs. A virtual reality model for viewing will then be created.
Five RIVAA artists will interact with the teams at specific times during the
semester to give advice on how the projects are progressing from an
aesthetic point of view and to make suggestions. This will allow the
possibility for the students to envision their designs from a very
different, non technical perspective and give them ideas they might wish to
incorporate.
At the conclusion of the semester the students projects may be critiqued by
RIVAA on a design basis and placed on display at RIVAA gallery.
Last weekend, I asked this group of Citibike riders visiting Roosevelt Island
where they got their Citibikes. They said from one of the many bike docking stations near their home in Long Island City and they asked why there was no docking station on Roosevelt Island, which they added, would be a perfect location.
The Cornell Tech students developing a Roosevelt Island dockless bike sharing program are
Harrison Zhao
Owen Wang
Hanfu Liao
Jim Zhu
and report:
We have built our minimum variable product, which includes an emailing unlocking system and two bikes. The tasks we are working on right now is to build a Bluetooth distance sensor that will guide users to park the bikes at specific areas so that the bikes won't affect others. For our next step, we will do more user research and refine our product. We plan to buy more bikes and launch our product..... The product will be first open to Cornell Tech students, and then open to the public.
In term of our mission, we hope our product could benefit people on the island and other daily commuters and make short trips more convenient and affordable. Moreover, we wish, through our product, Cornell Tech and Cornell Tech students can better fit into the Roosevelt Island community.
This is how the dockless bike sharing would work on Roosevelt Island
and Long Island City.
The Roosevelt Island dockless bike sharing pilot project began as a student project for the Cornell Tech Remaking The City Class. Here is December 2017 presentation by the student team
to the Cornell Tech community as part of their project in Professor Tapan Parikh's Remaking The City class trying to improve our local retail scene.
Mr Boroumand explained the purpose of Let's Eat RI:
... We've been given the task of improving retail on the Island. We thought that would be a great idea to try to bridge the gap between Cornell Tech student body and the Roosevelt Island community through food. We invited these 4 vendors to come in, We have Wholesome Factory, Riverwalk Bar & Grill, Piccolo and Bread & Butter. We brought them here to give the students a taste of what they have to offer so students are more aware of food options on the Island. This way we can promote the students to eat locally instead of taking the Tram over to Manhattan....
The Cornell Tech students also invited residents to Let's Eat RI and asked what is your favorite thing about Roosevelt Island. Answers including:
The Green Spaces,
View,
I love the Tram,
The Geese,
The Birds,
The Dogs
Serenity,
Sunsets,
Friendly people and more
were posted on this white board.
Learn more about Professor Tapan Parkih's Remaking The City class at this previous post.
I am part of Tapan Parikh's Remaking the City class
My group is hosting an event at the Cornell Tech cafe with the goal of bridging our student body with the Roosevelt Island community. Multiple Roosevelt Island restaurants will be offering small treats so students can get a taste of the variety of foods the Island has to offer. We will also be playing Christmas music and hope to have some activities including arts and crafts at the event.
We’ve named the event “Let’s Eat RI” and will hold it this Friday (12/1) in the Cornell Tech cafe from 2-5pm. We’re hoping to attract people from all over Roosevelt Island.
Cornell Tech Remaking The City class professor Tapan Parikh is also a Roosevelt Island resident and a Roosevelt Island Residents Association (RIRA) Common Council member.
This workshop-based service learning course will engage students in participatory design projects that use technology to re-imagine community services and infrastructure in urban contexts. Teams of 2-3 students will be paired with individuals and organizations working on Roosevelt Island and elsewhere in the city, to learn and apply user-centered and participatory design methodologies towards important challenges facing the city and its inhabitants....
During the November 27 Roosevelt Island Cornell Tech Town Hall Meeting
The conversation with our #RooseveltIsland community and @cornell_tech started five years ago. Together we have built a growing partnership with our schools, community organizations, and public spaces, in building Silicon Island. pic.twitter.com/zih8EWED5T
Roosevelt Island is a mixed income, racially diverse waterfront community situated in the East River of New York City between Manhattan and Queens and is jurisdictionally part of Manhattan. The Roosevelt Island Tramway, which connects Roosevelt Island to the rest of Manhattan, has become the iconic symbol of Roosevelt Island to its residents.
The Purpose of this Blog is to provide accurate and timely information about Roosevelt Island as well as a forum for residents to express opinions and engage in a dialogue to improve our community.
