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Graduate Student RA - Madinah Living Heritage
The Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism (LCAU) is looking for a research assistant to join our team and work on a web development project that features data collection and data visualization. Research will support a pilot project that will focus on collecting and visualizing stories of living heritage in Madinah, Saudi Arabia, through a digital platform. The Living Heritage Atlas | Madinah is a design-based research project that documents the living heritage of Madinah through stories of places and local knowledge. Sites, memories, stories, daily rhythms, and sensorial experiences of living heritage are collected through interviews and photos to comprise a living archive, where heritage sites can be preserved and qualities can be amplified in future development of the city. This project will involve design and development of an interactive website to visualize data in creative and interactive ways.
Required Skills: The RA should have familiarity oe interest in cultural heritage and tourism. They should also have ability to work with quantitative data and have familiarity with statistical analysis (any platform - python and R) and GIS. The ability to visualize data through online tools (Mapbox and D3) and knowledge of website development (HTML, CSS, Javascript) would be of particular interest.
Priority given to DUSP MCP and PhDs.
Work Schedule: This is a Fall Semester appointment. The RA will be required to be present at two weekly meetings determined in accordance with their class schedule. The rest of the week the RA can determine their work hours working a total of 20 hours a week.