 I'm Dare Baroli and I'm the Assistant Director of the Center for Spatial Research here at GSAP and I'm going to be introducing the center to you for this virtual open house for prospective students through a few of our recent projects. So CSR was founded in 2015 and we are a grant funded center that does research that links architecture design and urban planning to data science and often deals with issues with a social justice focus. Our primary medium that we use in our work is Mass. CSR is directed by Laura Pergen who is a professor of architecture and also directs the visual study sequence of the MRT program and you'll likely encounter her elsewhere in this virtual open house space. So I'll just talk through one of our recent projects just to start off and give some context for the kind of work that we do at CSR and the ways that students are able to get involved in that work. So this project in Plain site was one that I especially enjoyed working on back in 2018. It's a project about the uneven distribution of electricity worldwide and in it we looked for anomalies in two different global datasets, one of population from the censuses aggregated from around the globe and the other satellite images of the earth at night revealing nighttime lights. And by looking at places where these two datasets didn't align we were able to find places where there are bright lights and no people and places where there are people but no lights. So in a 20 minute animated film we move back and forth from global views like these into a series of zooms where we narrate through specific examples of the types of spaces of places we found where that these conditions exist places with bright lights and where there are no counted populations. So one example here focuses on natural gas extraction and a pipeline from a natural gas plant that travels through the Peruvian Amazon and puts indigenous populations at risk. And one of the things that we highlight through the map and through our analysis is that in each of these specific examples they're really just one example among many of similar phenomena. So these are other hundreds of oil and gas plants that show up as bright spots at night across the world and highlight these conditions of global inequality and potential environmental risk. So this is a 20 minute animated film and you can watch the full film online through our website and CSR produced this in collaboration with Dillers to Pideo and Renfro and Robert Gerard Petrusco. It's a very big project team that included several graduate students working with us at CSR and also others with those other collaborators. And it was installed at the U.S. Pavilion of the Venice architecture by Annie. So this project gives you a little bit of a sense of the kinds of questions that we take on in our work at CSR and the approaches to that research that we take methodologically and also aesthetically. And so I'll step back out for a second to say that in general our work covers really a wide range of topics and is often conducted in collaboration with others. All of these projects require big teams and represent the work of many people and we often work with activists, with architects. We have a large collaboration with historians at the moment. And in those collaborations and in research that we initiate, we bring methods and data visualization geographic information systems, information design and spatial research to these projects. So we often present our work through a number of different formats, through exhibitions, in many different kinds of places, through publications, books and journal articles. This is an edited volume based on a conference that we held recently that came out last fall. And in addition, we also often produce web-based projects, taking the form of interactive maps and other forms of web-based research and presentation. And students are involved in many aspects of all of this work. In addition to research, CSR faculty and researchers also offer courses each semester, both design seminars and methods-focused courses on topics and research approaches that are related to the ongoing work within the center. And these are courses that are open to students from across the programs at GSAP and are another key way that students get involved and get exposure to the kinds of methods that we use in our work. So I'll close by sharing another, our most recent project that we're really excited to be launching this week, in fact, the week of Open House, that is a project called Mapping the New Politics of Care in which we look at the geographies of community vulnerability in the context of COVID-19 in the US. And I'll just switch over to the browser to show you this project because it's an interactive map. So in the project, we are recognizing that vulnerabilities that have predated the pandemic have fueled uneven effects across the United States, the uneven effects of the disease that we've seen. And in our project and in our maps, we propose the contours, the shape for a new deal for public health and the community health core of one million community health workers to address both the long-standing inequalities embedded in the social and political landscape of the US and to address the immediate needs of the pandemic. So together with colleagues at the Yale School of Public Health, we've made maps that visualize multiple scenarios for where workers should be allocated state by state based on COVID impacts as well as pre-existing health, social and economic and systemic factors. And as well in the project by allowing folks to compare between you different types of vulnerability, we also uncover the stark differences in the geographies of different types of vulnerability that might be able to help to shape policy responses to the pandemic. So I encourage you to explore this project and others on the CSI website, which you can access via the GSAP open house page. This site gives an overview of our program, current projects, as well as the amazing team working at CSR right now. And hope to meet you all sometime in the future. Thanks so much.