Cooked
I LIVE HERE
By Judith Helfand with David Cohen, Orrin Williams with Yuko Uchikawa
NGO Partner: Center for Urban Transformation
Cooked, a feature documentary film and engagement campaign, uses the 1995 Chicago heat wave to explore the politics of disaster. Peabody award-winning filmmaker Judith Helfand takes the story from Chicago, 1995, when 739 people died in a single week, most of them poor, elderly and/or African American -- to the present and into the new world of disaster preparedness, a new growth industry. The film asks big questions and imagines best-case scenarios, the kind every U.S. city should be asking and striving for. What if poverty were treated as an emergency? At the Institute, Judith and her team utilized the Ushahidi API to design and build I LIVE HERE, a new kind of crisis map for neighborhoods in transition. I LIVE HERE is designed to track and share on-the-ground community development projects, providing a platform that integrates locally and nationally crowd-sourced and geolocated images and interactive video stories and step-by-step toolkits for neighborhood renewal projects. With I LIVE HERE, crisis mapping turns into solutions mapping. Based in the South Side Chicago community of Englewood that lost a disproportionate number of residents during the heat wave, the map’s hyper-local interface will be customizable for any neighborhood in any city across the country.
I LIVE HERE
By Judith Helfand with David Cohen, Orrin Williams with Yuko Uchikawa
NGO Partner: Center for Urban Transformation
Cooked, a feature documentary film and engagement campaign, uses the 1995 Chicago heat wave to explore the politics of disaster. Peabody award-winning filmmaker Judith Helfand takes the story from Chicago, 1995, when 739 people died in a single week, most of them poor, elderly and/or African American -- to the present and into the new world of disaster preparedness, a new growth industry. The film asks big questions and imagines best-case scenarios, the kind every U.S. city should be asking and striving for. What if poverty were treated as an emergency? At the Institute, Judith and her team utilized the Ushahidi API to design and build I LIVE HERE, a new kind of crisis map for neighborhoods in transition. I LIVE HERE is designed to track and share on-the-ground community development projects, providing a platform that integrates locally and nationally crowd-sourced and geolocated images and interactive video stories and step-by-step toolkits for neighborhood renewal projects. With I LIVE HERE, crisis mapping turns into solutions mapping. Based in the South Side Chicago community of Englewood that lost a disproportionate number of residents during the heat wave, the map’s hyper-local interface will be customizable for any neighborhood in any city across the country.
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