Get Unstuck: Secure funding and people to launch that social impact project NOW!
At this month’s Think Act Change learn how you can use crowdfunding to make your idea happen.
Meet July’s New York Tech Meetup stars
This month’s New York Tech Meetup (NYTM) featured eclectic startups in the fields of news, events, healthy eating, locksmithing, project management, and coding.
IDEAS 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,…
Pitching 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…
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…
Ingenuity in the Extrapolation Factory
An experiment in public thinking about future design gave participants a chance to develop ideas and voice one’s own opinion, through making the kinds of objects that might be found in a 99c store of the future.
Redesign, revive the Rockaways: MoMA’s call for ideas
MoMA and PS1 will present 25 winning designs for alternate public housing, for new public space, and other sustainable, new developments for the Sandy-ravaged neighborhood. The call is open to everyone.
Twitter map reveals NYC’s lingual diversity
The map’s English tweets are almost indistinguishable from a road map, creating a grid of New York’s busiest streets. Altogether, 22 languages were identified.
Why 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:…
Is “solutionism” getting us nowhere?
It has become all-too-sexy to throw a few apps at a societal problem and hope that it goes away. But how do we make the jump from knowledge to real solutions?
A glimpse of the future, underground
Exhibit modeling planned underground park presents the future of illuminating the depths below NYC’s streets with natural sunlight.
Open plans for your cycling summer
Summer has arrived! Soon enough, you’ll be seeing blue. Thousands of blue bicycles.
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…
Lara Penin and Eduardo Staszowski
“If we want society to change, we should look at ourselves, and learn from whatever is already working.”
Mannahatta 2409: a work in progress
Eric Sanderson, ecologist and creator of the Welikia Project, is now leading a team to create a new version of Mannahatta: an interactive tool that will let visitors experiment with the design of the city of the future.
Collaborative Consumption hits NYC
The Sustainability Practice Network (SPN) organized an event that took place yesterday at Green Spaces to discuss the trend of collaborative consumption, which was identified by Time in 2010 as one of the 10 ideas that will change the world. The talk was moderated by Roo Rogers, founder of Ozolab and panelists included the entrepreneurs Jen Abrams, Our Goods; Ron J. Williams, SnapGoods; Paul Steely White, Transportation Alternatives;
Grow Our Grassroots: February 11 Summit for trees, parks and gardens
On Saturday, February 11th, the city’s innovative crowd source platform Change By Us will team up with the Parks Department, PlaNYC and Million Trees…
Ioby.org and Deutsche Bank team up to fund green projects in NYC
Ioby, the online micro-funding platform for community green projects, will work with Deutsche Bank to provide matching grants aimed at projects led by Community Development…