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Ideas City 2015: Festival for the Future
May 28, 2015 @ 9:00 am - May 30, 2015 @ 7:00 pm
Free
Founded by the New Museum, IDEAS CITY is a 3-day festival May 28-30 in NYC exploring the future of cities with culture as a driving force. Open to the Public, 100+ FREE EVENTS. City Atlas is participating in the festival on Saturday May 30th – look out for us and come say hi! We’d love to meet you.
Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.
—Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities
The theme of this year’s IDEAS CITY Festival is The Invisible City, an homage to Italo Calvino’s literary masterpiece of 1972. This theme is rooted in civic action, with each of the Festival’s platforms serving as an invitation to explore questions of transparency and surveillance, citizenship and representation, expression and suppression, participation and dissent, and the enduring quest for visibility in the city.
THURSDAY 5/28
The first day of the Festival will comprise a series of talks, panels, and discussions at the Cooper Union. Speakers will include some of the world’s most forward-thinking visionaries who, together, will discuss key civic issues, propose solutions, and formulate action for the city of tomorrow. Purchase a Conference Pass, which includes access to the Mayoral Panel, or tickets to the Mayoral Panel only.
For more information about Thursday’s schedule, please visit: http://www.ideas-city.org/#event/ideas-city-conference
FRIDAY 5/29
The second day of the Festival will animate a basilica and a gym with dance battles, poetry slams, urban-design pitches, sound and video environments, hot-air balloons, games, and mobile art spaces. It’ll be a whirlwind of engagement and provocation that illuminates the invisible forces in our cities. Purchase a ticket to attend the IDEAS CITY Keynote and A Performative Conference in Nine Acts.
For more information, please visit: http://www.ideas-city.org/
SATURDAY 5/30
The third and final day of the Festival will transform the streetscape into a temporary city of ideas, redefining public space and architecture. One hundred cultural and community groups will come together to share their ideas through hands-on workshops, performances, tours, and exhibitions.
For more information, please visit: http://www.ideas-city.org/
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