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A paper about the experimental urban mapping app Streetscape, made as part of the YOUrban project, was presented at the Local and Mobile Conference at North Carolina State University.
YOUrban
Community action toolkit | The Young Foundation
Use this toolkit to find out what people want from the Big Society: what makes people want to get involved in local action? What stops them from taking part. How to devolve power and money to communities.
Social Innovation Needs Design, and Design Needs Social Innovation (November 28, 2011) | Opinion Blog | Stanford Social Innovation Review
Social innovation needs people who know how to create lives filled with both success and purpose.
("Happy feelings at the awakening of Finnish Spring" being one of the alternative titles cheekily used by performers of Sibelius' Finlandia in its early performances , in order to escape Russian censorship.) We arrived in Helsinki in the Finnish Spring, fresh from the Australian Late-Summer. Before long, the Finnish Summer announced itself with glorious sunshine and warmth creeping across southern Finland. Helsinki in summer could be surprisingly warm, touching the mid-thirties on the streets around our apartment. On holiday in the UK in July, I found myself saying something I thought I never would: I miss the heat of the Helsinki sun. By September it was deeply Autumnal, though.
cityofsound
Public Design Festival
Segui il tumblr Public Design Festival è ideato e realizzato da esterni , impresa culturale che dal 1995 progetta spazi pubblici, disegna servizi per piccole e grandi comunità, promuove e realizza eventi di aggregazione, sviluppa campagne di comunicazione necessaria e partecipata. esterni lavora con enti pubblici e privati in Italia e all’estero, condividendo competenze, progetti e risorse.
Se si smette di guardare il paesaggio come oggetto di attività umana, subito si scopre una quantità di spazi indecisi, privi di funzione sui quali è difficile posare un nome.
((( SPAZI INDECISI )))
Human Cities: Currently
The Human Cities team has been working very hard on the last details of the Festival and is proud to announce the final program!In her TEDx talk, Ellen Dunham-Jones explores a collection of retrofit case studies, empty malls that have become libraries, art centers, groceries, and downtown central areas, with apartments, restaurants, and shops built atop old parking lots.
How might we restore vibrancy in cities and regions facing economic decline? - Inspiration
Design for Community
HERO works as a catalyst for community development in areas of the Alabama Black Belt to end rural poverty.Projects « Locality
We run a host of community asset ownership, social action and enterprise projects with our members and partners. All our projects aim to empower people and improve communities.La canottiera di Bossi (Guanda, 10 euro) di Marco Belpoliti offre una svelta ma efficace fenomenologia del leader leghista che sembra oggi destinato al tramonto.
esterni.org
Todays public servants face complex and often contradictory challenges. Service users expectations, conditioned in part by the rapid improvements in service experience in the private sector (particularly online) are rising.