DCWEEK 2011 Preview: Pop-up Extravaganza

Digital Capital Week is a ten day festival in Washington DC focused on digital technology and innovation. For those unfamiliar with DCWEEK, the festival is made up of 100s of distributed events powered by the community and complemented by core conferences, parties, and projects. DCWEEK (4th – 11Nov) brings together community members from around the world, from many different professions, and areas of passion and expertise, uniting to share ideas about technology, entrepreneurship, marketing, content creation, among many other topics. DCWEEK 2010, the first annual event of its kind, drew 6,000 attendees. This year organizers, iStrategyLabs and TechCocktail, expect more than 10,000 participants.

A strong theme of DCWEEK 2011 programming focuses on exploring exciting new opportunities to activate the people and places of our cities with social technologies and experiments in temporary urbanism. During DCWEEK participants will experience exciting interactive installations and technology projects, performances, live social data visualizations and speaker panels focused on temporary urbanism, social technology and it’s relationships with the city. This year’s festival will include everything from a charity design day benefiting DC area non-profits, a greenspace open innovation cafe, a storytelling filmmaking workshop, Solution Oriented Digital Design session, to a two-day Pop-up Extravaganza, just to name a few.  

POP-UP EXTRAVAGANZA

During the opening weekend (5-6th Nov) DCWEEK will host a pop-up extravaganza focused on transforming a city block and underused retail strip into a vibrant incubator for local artists, musicians, retailers and entrepreneurs.

In partnership with verdeHOUSE, local artists, musicians, designers and entrepreneurs are taking over an underutilized space to transform it into a vibrant multimedia, art & fashion parlour for the weekend.

Activities and events will continue throughout the week along H St. DCWEEK organizers are still accepting additional ideas to make the festival as beneficial as it can be - so everyone is encouraged to participate however they can. Most events are free, with the exception of a few.

There are about eight more days to register or join a project. It's not too late. Check out the full schedule of events, latest blog updates, or submit an event while there’s still time.