Urban planner and writer Mike Lydon will provide an overview and explanation of the fast-growing Tactical and DIY Urbanism movements, including its history and future prospects.
@MikeLydon is the founding Principal of The Street Plans Collaborative, and urban planning, design, and research-advocacy firm based in Miami and New York City.
Join Aviva Kapust, Executive Director of The Village and a cohort of creative youth from the program, as they share the history and resurgence of The Village as a safe haven for youth, a catalyst for healthy neighborhood development, and an amplifier of the voice and vision of North Philly.
@AvivaKapust is a graphic designer, educator and youth rights activist. In April 2013, she was appointed Executive Director at The Village of Arts and Humanities. Since 2010, Ms. Kapust has developed innovative programs and initiatives that that address the seemingly impossible socioeconomic challenges facing the estimated 1800 youth and families that reside in a 10-block radius of The Village.
A look at how Open Collaboration, Design Fiction and Play can be powerful tools for social innovation.
What does it mean to play together, to play with other people? Game designer and co-founder of Come Out & Play Nick Fortugno discusses how play, systems, and agency can help build communities and reimagine cities. By looking at ways game systems are used in examples from icebreaking to street games to participatory democracy, this talk explores how concepts such as exploration, fairness, and strategic thinking can make everyone more engaged in their environment and help them to imagine new ways to work and play together.
@NickFortugno is a game designer, teacher, and artist. Playmatician and Come Out and Play co-founder.
Join us for a collective investigation of adolescence and place with two youth arts and urbanism organizations: ORNG Ink and the Village of Arts and Humanities. In this workshop we will learn about youth-led diy urbanism initiatives in Orange, NJ and Philadelphia, PA. Then together we will explore the many ways in which young people make the city.
ORNG Ink is a studio for emerging artists located in the IronWorks building at 406 Tompkins Street, Orange New Jersey. Our mission is to provide a safe and inspiring environment for teens and young adults to engage in creative pursuits.
This workshop seeks to make New York City streets a more engaging place, encouraging civic participation through playful interventions. Urban objects reclaimed from the streets are recombined and placed back on the streets where they were originally found, to be rediscovered and inform a new perspective on city life. The intention is a reframing and reactivation of underused urban infrastructure, and an increase in empathy and awareness through collaborative playfulness.
Rotten Apple is a combination of street art, urban hacking, and design. Interventions in public space, using found objects that are reconfigured to enrich the urban experience through play.
For 25 years, Everyday Democracy has coached 600+ communities in building capacity to organize to create equitable and inclusive change through a dialogue-to-change approach, which brings together people from diverse backgrounds and viewpoints to build relationships, talk, learn and create action together. This approach is replicable on a small or large scale, and for low resource communities, communities of color, and other disempowered communities. In this workshop, participants will learn how the approach can be used as a catalyst for community wide action and change around divisive urban issues like poverty, racial equity, police-community relations, food security, early childhood matters, and education reform. Participants will hear stories of real change from communities that have successfully used the approach. Participants will receive free, open source access to Everyday Democracy discussion guides, tools and resources, which can be used to benefit their existing work and communities.
Janée Woods Weber loves people of all kinds, NYC, and getting fired up about fixing our nation’s broken democracy. She hates racism and classism.
Are you ready to make a change? Create opportunities instead of responding to crisis. Learn from a fellow artist how to bring your creative and financial lives into dynamic balance.
Esther Robinson has worked on behalf of artists for over 20 years. Currently, she is the founder of ArtHome, a non-profit that helps artists and their communities build assets and equity through financial literacy and home-ownership.
Can we design a network of local movie theaters using open source technology and build a New York City prototype? A raspberry pi playback device, bitcoin box office robots, reclaimed construction materials, junk yard vehicle seats and restored real estate. Let’s bring people out of their homes and into urban spaces with each other to gather around the modern day campfire. The collective screen. Come software developers, come interior designers, come filmmakers, come film fans and let’s co-design the future of cinema.
@ArinCrumley of @4eyedmonsters and @openindie has new plans for a worldwide network of digital cinema screens & a new film on the way.
The open think tank session offers an opportunity for anyone who wants to share a big idea, a project or a concept with other participants. It’s a free space without any facilitation. The group will self-organize and probably change frequently throughout the day.
7 years ago, DIY days started out as a gathering for anyone interested in participatory media. Now, as Learn Do Share, the event series changes towards participatory spaces. As a social sandbox, the event offers workshops, labs and hackathons for anyone to step in and create the world they want to see around them. A social sandbox inspires civic engagement, creativity and share culture.How do our emotions qualify, or validate, the conclusions coming out of research driven by Big Data? Does what we feel corroborate with what we think and what we actually do? By cataloguing cross-sections of our actions, emotions, and thoughts, we can better understand our behaviors. Particularly, we can better understand how we interact with urban environments.
Sarah Henry, a design researcher, and Kristina Drury of TYTHEdesign, have combined their respective expertise in qualified emotional data and design thinking for community engagement to engage you, the participants, in helping to answer these questions. In this interactive workshop we will identify opportunities for recording accurate personal data, and prototype a qualitative emotional data collection tool that explores your personal environment.
Learn how @BetaTheRobot cultivates the next gen of makers by empowering players to become creators.
A creative technologist, educator & social entrepreneur, Errol King uses media & gaming as a force for converting consumers to producers.
An ambitious dreamer, avid gamer and masterful programmer, Chris Moody creates games because he loves them.
A social learning specialist with a taste for tech, Patrice King designs collaborative spaces for deep learning, inquiry and creation.
CANCELLED – Finding empathy at the edges of polarization. This session explores ways to have civil discussions around challenging topics.
At Wisdom Hackers, we are exploring what a learning community outside of traditional structures can be. A world where wisdom isn’t marginalized, but where spirited inquiry into life’s meta-questions is actively encouraged. How do we build out and refresh seeker technologies from ancient times and alternative cultures and “refresh” them and incorporate them into urban life? How do we build out urban infrastructure that allows us to learn and probe into burning questions outside of traditional educational environments (e.g., churches, schools, jobs). In this interactive lab, we’ll explore some of the barriers to a seeker identity in modern urban life and generate solutions for building out more supportive mechanisms for wisdom acquisition.
Alexa Clay a writer, economic historian and culture hacker. She is the author The Misfit Economy, a book that explores what business can learn from underground and “deviant” innovation.
Maricarmen Sierra is an experience designer, strategist and multidisciplinary mind-body artist born in Mexico City and currently living in San Francisco.
Meet Lyka a little robot scientist with a big heart who is trying to reboot education. Step into a collaborative design session that explores the potential of discovery-based learning and the value of experience design within the classroom.
@AtleyLoughridge is a co-founder, writer and experience designer for Connected Sparks and Reboot Stories, two start-ups harnessing story and tech for social change. Mashable recently named Reboot Stories “One of 5 Social Good Startups You Should Know Right Now.” She is authoring the series of Penguin books for Lyka’s Adventure, a recipient of Tribeca’s New Media Fund.
The open think tank session offers an opportunity for anyone who wants to share a big idea, a project or a concept with other participants. It’s a free space without any facilitation. The group will self-organize and probably change frequently throughout the day.
7 years ago, DIY days started out as a gathering for anyone interested in participatory media. Now, as Learn Do Share, the event series changes towards participatory spaces. As a social sandbox, the event offers workshops, labs and hackathons for anyone to step in and create the world they want to see around them. A social sandbox inspires civic engagement, creativity and share culture.Self-facillitated session for anyone who wants to share. 10 minute slots, no sales pitches and please relate your talk to the theme of the day.
7 years ago, DIY days started out as a gathering for anyone interested in participatory media. Now, as Learn Do Share, the event series changes towards participatory spaces. As a social sandbox, the event offers workshops, labs and hackathons for anyone to step in and create the world they want to see around them. A social sandbox inspires civic engagement, creativity and share culture.
