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January 11, 2012
Harnessing the Power of Story to Shape a City's Future

Every place tells a story.  But, most don’t do it coherently or intentionally.  The tricky thing about stories is that even if a city or a downtown doesn’t want to be telling one, it matters not, because they are telling a story anyway.  So, how do you quantify a place’s story, and what can you do with it?

Every place tells a story.  

But, most don’t do it coherently or intentionally.  The tricky thing about stories is that even if a city or a downtown doesn’t want to be telling one, it matters not, because they are telling a story anyway.  

So, how do you quantify a place’s story, and what can you do with it?

December 28, 2011
Artists Reconsider Their Roles in Our Society Through Residency Program

Making art in the public is no longer just placing an object in a public plaza, a monumental sculpture in a park or a memorial sculpture. Public art can be integrated into the landscape or digitally into the fabric of a building.   Or, art in the public can be seventy artists doing performances on Main Street over a short span of time.

Making art in the public is no longer just placing an object in a public plaza, a monumental sculpture in a park or a memorial sculpture. Public art can be integrated into the landscape or digitally into the fabric of a building.   Or, art in the public can be seventy artists doing performances on Main Street over a short span of time.

December 1, 2011
Social Cities: How to Engage Citizens With Digital Media

The increasing growth and complexity of cities raises the question how we can use digital media technologies and principles from online culture to design livable and lively cities. How can digital media aid citizens to engage with their environment, with fellow urbanites, and with issues at stake in their cities? Most mobile and location-based apps are about personalized consumption and sharing preferences with an in-group of like-minded people. Can we use digital technologies to help solve collective problems in the city too?

The increasing growth and complexity of cities raises the question how we can use digital media technologies and principles from online culture to design livable and lively cities. How can digital media aid citizens to engage with their environment, with fellow urbanites, and with issues at stake in their cities? Most mobile and location-based apps are about personalized consumption and sharing preferences with an in-group of like-minded people. Can we use digital technologies to help solve collective problems in the city too?

June 3, 2011
Code for Oakland

A one-day bar camp on using local data to build apps for Oakland at Kaiser Center.  Innovate Oakland (InOak),  Oakland Local and Code for America are organizing a day to brainstorm and work on concepts for mobile apps for the Knight/FCC Apps for Communities competition.

Innovate Oakland (InOak),  Oakland Local and Code for America are organizing a day to brainstorm and work on concepts for mobile apps for the Knight/FCC Apps for Communities competition.

March 28, 2011
Introducing: International Making Cities Livable

International Making Cities Livable (IMCL) is a worldwide network of city officials, practitioners, and scholars in architecture, urban design, planning, and urban affairs, health and social sciences, and the arts.

International Making Cities Livable (IMCL) is a worldwide network of city officials, practitioners, and scholars in architecture, urban design, planning, and urban affairs, health and social sciences, and the arts. Since 1985, IMCL has been organizing conferences designed to celebrate and foster the concepts of True Urbanism, which espouses the principles of human-scale architecture, mixed-use, multi-modal transit systems, compact urban fabric, and community-oriented open space.

October 21, 2010
Challenging the People with Challenge.gov

Earlier this month the website challenge.gov went live to the public.  A forum for citizen engagement, Challenge hopes to turn the typical participatory paradigm on its head.  Bev Godwin, director of new media and citizen engagement at U.S. General Services Administration equates it to the next form of citizen engagement; going beyond participation to co-creation.  

Earlier this month the website challenge.gov went live to the public.  A forum for citizen engagement, Challenge hopes to turn the typical participatory paradigm on its head.  Bev Godwin, director of new media and citizen engagement at U.S.

June 25, 2010
The DoTank: Brooklyn Collaborative

A collective of Brooklyn urbanites concerned with improving the world around them, Do Tank: Brooklyn is a self-described ‘public vessel for interdisciplinary exploration, engagement and enhancement of our urban environment’.  As their name may imply, this is not a ‘think tank’, this is a ‘do tank’.  Emphasis is placed not upon questioning society or politics, but on active engagement and contribution to their community.  While early efforts came to fruition in their home base of Brooklyn, the group has begun venturing out of their borough for causes that deem it necessary.