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Is “solutionism” getting us nowhere?
Apps do everything from finding cheap pad thai to predicting what your children will look like to tracking your carbon emissions, but do they really help? Photo: BixbyApps.com We’re all aware of the...
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We were curious to hear why New Yorkers were planning to head to the #ForwardOnClimate Rally in D.C. this weekend. Here’s what we found out: The activists in this video also speak of the divestment...
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Twitter map reveals NYC’s lingual diversity
British cartography connoisseurs Spatial Analysis have mapped some 8.5 million geo-tagged tweets in the metro area, nearly 1 million of which are foreign languages, helping visualize the city’s...
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Redesign, revive the Rockaways: MoMA’s call for ideas
Calling NYC architects, artists, and designers with an eye on the Rockaways: “In an effort to foster the creative debate on urban recovery after Hurricane Sandy, MoMA PS1 and MoMA’s Department of...
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Ingenuity in the Extrapolation Factory
For those interested in design and how it can affect the future, one does not have to go far in order to find a list of lectures, seminars, and gallery presentations of contemporary works. Often, the...
View ArticleIDEAS CITY FESTIVAL
IDEAS CITY explores the future of cities around the globe with the belief that arts and culture are essential to the vitality of urban centers, making them better places to live, work, and play....
View ArticlePitching the City: New Ideas for New York
Join Architizer and the Municipal Art Society, co-hosts of a signature event of the New Museum’s Ideas City Festival, for an exploration of new and innovative urban initiatives. Five project creators,...
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MAS Spring 2013 Livable Neighborhoods Training
Livable Neighborhoods offers New York City specific workshops on a range of planning topics including resilience building, the use of census data to understand neighborhood concerns, the role of...
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Meet July’s New York Tech Meetup stars
Presenters from Dispatch (Photo by Kathy Zhang) This month’s New York Tech Meetup (NYTM) featured eclectic startups in the fields of news, events, healthy eating, locksmithing, project management, and...
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Get Unstuck: Secure funding and people to launch that social impact project NOW!
So you have an social impact project idea. But no money or enough time. How can you make it happen? Where can you find people to help you for next to nothing? Where do you find supporters? How do you...
View ArticleLara Penin and Eduardo Staszowski
Lara Penin is the Principal Investigator and Eduardo Staszowski is the Director of The Parsons DESIS Lab – which advances the practice and discourse of design-enabled social innovation toward more...
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How to surveil yourself for (y)our own good
Though environmental standards have improved over the past decades, in these muggy days of early summer in New York the quality of our air and water becomes palpably questionable. We bicycle through...
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Open plans for your cycling summer
Summer has arrived! Soon enough, you’ll be seeing blue. Citibikes are coming! Photo via velojoy.com A brand-new fleet of nearly 10 thousand bicycles will populate New York’s streets in the coming...
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A glimpse of the future, underground
Living in a concrete jungle with all the skyscrapers competing like plants that strive for sunlight, I always picture an opposing underworld with trees and buildings heading towards the core. Pipes...
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Is “solutionism” getting us nowhere?
Apps do everything from finding cheap pad thai to predicting what your children will look like to tracking your carbon emissions, but do they really help? Photo: BixbyApps.com We’re all aware of the...
View ArticleWhy are you going to #ForwardOnClimate?
We were curious to hear why New Yorkers were planning to head to the #ForwardOnClimate Rally in D.C. this weekend. Here’s what we found out: The activists in this video also speak of the divestment...
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Twitter map reveals NYC’s lingual diversity
British cartography connoisseurs Spatial Analysis have mapped some 8.5 million geo-tagged tweets in the metro area, nearly 1 million of which are foreign languages, helping visualize the city’s...
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Redesign, revive the Rockaways: MoMA’s call for ideas
Calling NYC architects, artists, and designers with an eye on the Rockaways: “In an effort to foster the creative debate on urban recovery after Hurricane Sandy, MoMA PS1 and MoMA’s Department of...
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Ingenuity in the Extrapolation Factory
For those interested in design and how it can affect the future, one does not have to go far in order to find a list of lectures, seminars, and gallery presentations of contemporary works. Often, the...
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Meet July’s New York Tech Meetup stars
Presenters from Dispatch (Photo by Kathy Zhang) This month’s New York Tech Meetup (NYTM) featured eclectic startups in the fields of news, events, healthy eating, locksmithing, project management, and...
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