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Public Space as Mixed Reality: Art, Design & Community in a Digital World

Saturday, February 26, 2011 from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM (PT)

San Francisco, CA

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Youth/Seniors $89 Ended $89.00 $0.00
Individual Professional $129 Ended $129.00 $0.00
Non-Profit/City Agency $159 Ended $159.00 $0.00
Business/Corporate $199 Ended $199.00 $0.00
Cultural Connections Members/Hardship Help $50 Ended $50.00 $0.00
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Event Details

Enlightened Spaces Workshop - space is limited!

 

Public Space as Mixed Reality: Art, Design & Community in a Digital World

Saturday, February 26 

10 am-4 pm

 

(Note: This workshop is held in conjunction with "Innovations in Interactivity: Where Technology & Placemaking Intersect" on February 23. Details/tickets here.)

Public spaces are complex grids of meanings and interactions. As the public realm becomes increasingly “hybridized” (where physical and digital objects co-exist in real time), our methods for navigating, occupying, creating connection and constructing narratives within these spaces are shifting.

When art and design interact effectively with these interweaving layers, “spaces” become active and meaningful “places” that support vibrant, sustainable communities.

As artists and designers, planners and leaders, we must expand our thinking and toolkits related to this new “mixed” reality. And we must strengthen our ability to facilitate community participation and social action using both digital and non-digital tools.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

  • What are the layers of meaning and interaction that form public space today?
  • How can we engage with community to reveal the cultural geography of place using alternative technologies, basic mobile recording devices, and online open-source tools, as well as analog resources?
  • How can art/design interact with mixed reality/cultural geography so that we offer a meaningful and engaging experience of place?

FORMAT

  • Presentation and discussion
  • Introduction to digital tools and applications (blogging, folksonomies, Google Maps, etc.)
  • Exploration of a nearby public space as mixed reality experience
  • Group brainstorming related to participants’ personal/professional projects
  • 45 minute break for lunch - we recommend you bring your lunch

NOTES

  • Cash only at the door
  • Coffee/tea will be available starting 9:45 am - come early and enjoy!

 

INSTRUCTORS

HANA IVERSON’s background is in photography, video, installation and interactive media. Her public projects, Cross/Walks: Weaving Fabric Row, View from the Balcony and the education initiative Neighborhood Narratives, employ the neighborhood as social practice, questioning place, embodiment, and social engagement inside of mobile and alternative distribution forms. She is Visiting Scholar, Institute for Woman and Art at Rutgers University (NJ), founder/director, The Neighborhood Narratives Project; on the faculty of the Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers and a Senior Fellow with the Center for Creative Research (NYU).

LISA ZIMMERMAN is founding principal at 7Story, a consulting and design firm dedicated to placemaking. Working with an array of interdisciplinary collaborators, 7Story helps cities, neighborhoods and firms understand the identity or “narrative” of a community and express it through meaningful and engaging public spaces. Lisa is also creator/producer of Enlightened Spaces, a series of public events and workshops designed to promote interdisciplinary collaboration and creativity in public space design.

 

QUESTIONS?  Lisa Zimmerman at 415.302.8195 or lisa@7story.net