CDP Mapping Systems

Course materials for CDP Mapping Systems at Columbia GSAPP's Computational Design Practices program.

All course content lives in content/ and is available at the course website:

• content/Syllabus/ — syllabus and schedule
• content/Tutorials/ — Jupyter notebooks worked through in class
• content/Assignments/ — assignment briefs

To run the tutorials locally, see content/Assignments/00_Getting_Started.md.

Maintaining course resources

Three external sources feed the site:

• are.na channels → /resources/<slug> (masonry card grid)
• GitHub Star Lists → /resources/<slug> (repo card grid)
• Zotero collection → /bibliography (Chicago Author-Date, with sub-collection sections and search)

Configure all three in resources.config.ts. Credentials live in .env (gitignored) — copy .env.example to get started. Are.na and Zotero public sources work unauthenticated; GitHub Lists always need a token (GITHUB_TOKEN=$(gh auth token) is the quickest path).

To refresh and commit:

npm run build:resources   # fetch arena + github + zotero
git add src/content/resources/ src/data/
git commit -m "refresh: resources"
git push

Cloudflare doesn't fetch from any of these — it just serves what's committed. Refresh whenever you add to a channel, list, or Zotero collection.

To refresh one source at a time:

npm run build:arena
npm run build:github
npm run build:zotero