My Internship

I started my internship last Wednesday! I am interning with the Center for Knowledge Studies (CKS) doing what is broadly classified as 'Innovation Research and Social Media.' More specifically what I'm doing is

A) finding cool stuff going on in the world along the lines of design (urban, political, artistic), innovation, development, etc. and blogging about it (see my first blog post)

B) researching political theory from Aristotle to more contemporary socio-psychological theories on the idea of trust between the government and the governed. My task at present is to go through lots of political theory and compile a literature review type document which people can reference leading up to an event called Design!publiC III, on Innovation, Participation, and Governance, being held in April.

I like it as everyone is very nice and when I have declared myself an invalid for dental reasons, I can work from home.