Tag Archive | "community"
Terrain Vague, Citizen Engagement & the Open City: The Roerich Garden Project
My first Artefatica project is coming along. Sooooo slowly. A draft of the website for our first book — Terrain Vague, Citizen Engagement & the Open City: The Roerich Garden Project — is up! Check it out, send some feedback, add your story or your vision.
Continue reading...MobileVoices
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Joe Sullivan and I were talking this week about project communications. How can research teams communicate better? More engaged, more transparent? He told me about a project François Bar is working on: MobileVoices — a platform where immigrant workers in Los Angeles can use their mobile phones to share stories about their lives and communities. [...]
Continue reading...Forming the community
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Sorta connected to yesterday’s post. Here’s a Bernice Johnson Reagon quote on community. Dr Reagon is the founder of Sweet Honey in the Rock. I’m not a soloist, I’m a song leader. And a song leader starts songs but you can’t finish without help. Singing does not make sense to me without the congregation because the [...]
Continue reading...Being nobody-but-yourself
Monday, May 25, 2009
In 1991, when I was 22, Peggy Antrobus gave me a mixed tape of Sweet Honey in the Rock. I was surprised and thrilled with the gift and listened to the tape over and again. Later, when I lived in Washington DC, I had the opportunity to see them live and hear them speak at [...]
Continue reading...The Community Manifesto
Thursday, January 22, 2009
I just posted the first draft of the Station C Community Manifesto to our blog. Would love your feedback. Here’s the meat of it: Station C is a space that fosters community, collaboration, innovation. People come here to work and connect. We are a hub for creators and innovators: entrepreneurs, geeks, artists, social activists. Station C is [...]
Continue reading...Audio 
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Early in his career, professor Mark Rowlands had two loves: philosophy and Brenin, a wolf he was forced to bring along to his lectures. Through their relationship, Rowlands started examining his work and life. Listen on CBC’s Ideas, via EarIdeas.
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Every month, The New Yorker’s fiction editor, Deborah Treisman, hosts a reading and conversation with a well-known writer. August 2009 featured Joshua Ferris reading George Saunders’s “Adams.” The rhythm is magnificent.
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Beth Kolko, User, Hacker, Builder, Thief: Creativity & Consumerism in a Digital Age. “If I’m a hacker, I’m thoughtful about how I negotiate the world, I think about how I can make use of objects and systems rather than allowing the object or system to make use of me by slotting me into a pre-arranged role… hacking embodies the notion of agency and resistance.” #UrsulaFranklin
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- Omar Azfar
- Consulting for US clients is illegal if a non-US citizen performs the work
- An open letter to Bluehost: Your values matter
- Consulting for US clients is illegal... Or is it? (Part 2)
- (B)log On at the Canadian Centre for Architecture
- Blogging for Good Governance
- Rite of passage for Liam as he turns 13
- For my American friends: the Elite Escape Plan
- Television and creativity
- WordPress: Blog not on home page
- Naada Yoga: Something for my nothing
- Sherman Williams paints has worst logo ever
- A comic annual report
- Designer wanted for book on urban ecology, activism, local history
- Jim Jarmush: Nothing is original
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