Do you know innovators in Latin America? Next month in Lima, Peru, I’ll be co-hosting a three-day workshop for entrepreneurs in the creative industries, focused on design thinking, product development and fundraising. It’s an exciting project called Creative Industries Prototyping Lab, and applications to attend the workshop are open now. We’re […]
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Olafur Eliasson is a Danish-Icelandic artist who is receiving the MIT McDermott Award in the Arts for 2014. He recently spoke at the Center for Civic Media as part of the Civic Art Initiative. Olafur details how his art practice has always been intimately intertwined with art in public space. […]
Today is the Harvard launch of Impossible.com, a social network and app that facilitates a culture of giving and receiving. Hasit Shah helped me liveblog the event. SJ Klein also took livenotes. Lily Cole, founder of Impossible.com, is a social entrepreneur, fashion model and actress. An advocate for socio-political and […]
Liveblog from the Usability panel at RightsCon. It covered the Countersurveillance hackathon we had just wrapped up, a SF event headed by OpenITP but also linked to the recent Countersurveillance DiscoTechs. I typed this live and published right after the sessions for the day – please forgive typos etc. Usability […]
During my last trip to San Francisco, I heard about Marc Roth’s unconventional but sensible use of assistance money when he was homeless: He bought a membership to an SF makerspace. Marc learned the ins and outs of digital fabrication, started a successful laser cutting business, and now he’s ready […]