Erase the Border is a project that took place on the US-Mexico border in May 2012 and continues on the Internet. In May 2012, O’odham activist/artist Ofelia Rivas and I worked with a group of Tohono O’odham youth from the village of Ali Jegk to create a symbolic action to […]

Erase the Border: A Petition of Voices for Change

Matter is a new startup accelerator which aims to reinvent public media. At the Media Lab today, Corey Ford, Jake Shapiro, and Jigar Mehta (who spoke at the Media Lab earlier this semester), are holding a conversation on the mission and details of Matter, the application process, and the culture that […]

Reinventing Public Media: Matter, a media accellerator

Liveblog by @schock with help from two anonymous people on the etherpad. In this talk, Christine Gaspar, ED of the Center for Urban Pedagogy, provides an overview of their methodology, pedagogy, products, and project areas, drawing on key examples in areas including food, sanitation, telecommunications, education, policing, housing, development, participatory […]

Linking Designers and Organizers: Christine Gaspar, Center for Urban Pedagogy

A few weeks ago, Rogelio and I attended an intriguingly titled talk, “What would W.E.B. Du Bois say about inequality in digital societies?” It was part of a lecture series probing inequality and exclusion in a digital economy. Rogelio has a full write-up of the event here. The lecturer, Dr. […]

Closing the first-mover advantage in digital societies

Where commuters run over Black children in Detroit. By the Detroit Geographical Expedition and Institute: http://makingmaps.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/bunge_runovermap.jpg This post written together with Chris Schweidler. This Fall, together with DataCenter, we began developing the Civic Maps Toolkit to orient Community-Based Organizations and Grassroots Groups to the opportunities, tools and even limitations of […]