Sustainability is one of the biggest questions marks around crowdfunding and its long-term viability. Campaigns are framed intentionally as time-limited, one time opportunities – a form of gamification that creates urgency and momentum. But once the fanfare of the campaign is over, who will pay for the ongoing running costs […]
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#11milliondreams The #11milliondreams Storython, held on October 5th and 6th in both Los Angeles and Boston, was a collaborative effort of skill sharing and hands-on building to strengthen media practice in immigrant communities. Drawing inspiration from social movements such as Occupy, which harnessed media and tech skills from participants in […]
Liveblog by @schock of the Starr Forum talk by Chomsky and Madar at MIT, sponsored by the MIT Center for International Studies. All errors mine! Chomsky and Madar are introduced by John Tirman, Director of the MIT Center for International Studies. Chase Madar wrote the Passion of Bradley Manning: The […]
Co-written with Willow Brugh; graphic by Willow!link to the hackpad version of this post When you are designing a project for social justice, where do you start? In this workshop, we practice value-based design, a method that helps us to design for large scale social impact and to relate this […]
As an artist in residence at the Open Doc Lab and a freelance filmmaker, I am currently working on an interactive documentary with the preliminary title ”Flux”, which explores gender identities and gender roles. ”Flux” will be an immersive web experience that will open a space to discuss alternative social […]