Boston Civic Media: Design, Technology, Social Impact

Curious about how to use the arts to tell your civic data story? Wondering how to use the arts to help learn how to work with data?  We will introduce DataBasic.io: a suite of free easy-to-use web tools for beginners that introduce how to work with data through arts-based activities.  Finding and telling data-driven stories can help you streamline operations, spread your message, and bring people together for creative activities.  You'll walk away with new skills for yourself, fun techniques for helping others learning to work with data, and inspirations for how to combine civic data and the arts.

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Civic Art Lighnting Talks and Moderated Q&A by:

• A People's Atlas of the Cold War: A Transmedia Public Art Project- Sarah Kanouse
• CampusNeighbor x Soundlogics Case Study- Gabriel Mugar
• The City Journalist Project Case Study (The Urbano Project)- Stella McGreggor and Lina Maria Giraldo
• Creative Communities: A South Korea Case Study- Wonyoung So
• Public Space Invitational (Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics)- Michael Evans
• Citizen Science and Art: A Thermal Fishing Bob Project- Lourdes Vera

 

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Join a hands-on workshop to walk through a design-thinking process grounded in a local art context! Practice collaborative design-thinking skills to address a challenge faced by the local youth radio group Zumix.

Facilitator Info
(Co) C r e a t e is a student-led design initiative and a project of the Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching’s (HILT) Grants program that facilitates immersive workshops across Harvard’s graduate and professional schools. We also provide training in rapid prototyping, ideation & concept development, and designing for social impact. Our team has professional experience in facilitation and consulting on topics related to human-centered design, ‘creative confidence’ capacity building, and design-led business model innovation.

Carly James is a design consultant at ThinkPlace Kenya and Master's student at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. A cultural anthropologist by training, Carly recognizes that understanding human behaviors, motivations, drivers, and latent needs must be at the heart of every design process. She is a full-fledged believer in the idea that those for whom we are designing should be those with whom we design. In fall 2015, Carly and her friend and colleague, Tyler Samstag, student at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, co-founded Co. C r e a t e to bring creative problem-solving skills to the Harvard community in hands-on and innovative ways.