The Other Stuff with internetVin Michelle Jia: An Anthropology of Toronto | The Other Stuff #23
Michelle Jia (pronounced GEE-ah) is a Lecturer at the Stanford d .school and has worked with Prof. Michael Barry in ethnographic research and teaching for almost ten years, with a special focus on complex systems problems like Ocean Conservancy and Education Policy.
Today she’s based in Toronto, Canada where she’s helping to co-create a design school focused on systems thinking and design for the whole.
The Other Stuff is hosted by internetVin, filmmaker and entrepreneur and possibly the most curious man on Earth. Produced by New.
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Timestamps
(00:00:00) Opening: Twitter, Social Media, and Finding Your People (00:02:45) Soylent, Sweet Green, and San Francisco Food Culture (00:06:15) Plazas and Korean Fried Chicken (00:33:16) Needfinding: "Getting on the Roof" (00:44:49) Evicted, Grizzly Man, and the Art of Deep Immersion (00:55:59) Nausea, Existentialism, and Jumping Over the Abyss (01:33:39) Toronto's Privacy Culture and the Challenge of Connection (02:02:38) Secret Subculture Spaces in the City (02:36:44) The Five P's of Toronto's Cultural Code (02:48:22) Building IRID: A Design School for Complex Problems
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