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  • Stephen Metts

    Part-time Assistant Professor

    Email
    metts@newschool.edu

    Office Location
    A - 66 West 12th Street

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    Stephen Metts

    Profile

    Stephen Metts (M.A. Clark University) possesses over eight years of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and planning experience in both urban and regional contexts. He is the founding principal of Geospex, a GIS consultancy specializing in cartographic design, spatial analysis and mapping applications. He has worked with a diverse group of organizations, firms and city agencies ranging internationally with Engineers Without Borders to domestically with New York City’s planning department (NYCDCP) and housing authority (NYCHA). Metts was a founding Co-Director of OnRamp Arts, an award-winning non-profit digital arts organization fostering collaborative projects with underserved communities, architects and artists in Los Angeles. As an adjunct faculty within the Graduate Program in International Affairs, he teaches a hands-on approach to geospatial technologies for international crisis, development and the environment. He has also taught and developed GIS-related curriculum at Parsons the New School for Design, LaGuardia College and Clark University.

    Current Courses

    Geographic Information System
    NINT 5380, Spring 2024

    Spatial Thinking with GIS
    UURB 3210, Spring 2024

    Spatial Thinking with GIS
    UENV 3200, Spring 2024

    Future Courses

    Geographic Information System
    NINT 5380, Fall 2024

    Past Courses

    Geographic Information System
    NINT 5380, Fall 2023

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