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New Tech for Participatory Planning: Grade A for a grey day

rdabrams wrote 1 month ago: The Open Planning Project hosted New Technology for Participatory Planning – an ‘unconfe … more →

Tags: Cities+buildings, Collaborative creativity, Design for Good, Economy, Events, Geography, Government, interdisciplinary, Maps

"Best Square Wins" Goes Public

rdabrams wrote 1 month ago: Turnstone is delighted to report that one of our favorite grad school exercises is busting out of th … more →

Tags: Brain vitamins, Collaborative creativity, Design for Good, Design+Architecture, Education, Events, interdisciplinary, Storytelling, Turnstone rates

NYPL Live: Capitalism and the Future

rdabrams wrote 1 month ago: From grass-roots to ski-slopes, we’re shifting seamlessly from posts about London’s Bigg … more →

Tags: Academia, Brain vitamins, Corporations, Economy, Events, interdisciplinary, New York Public Library, Patterns+systems, Policy

Reporting Back from The Bigger Picture (3): Got any small change? 1 comment

rdabrams wrote 1 month ago: Here’s the third and final installment of Ben Reizenstein’s round up from The Bigger Pic … more →

Tags: Bigger picture, Brain vitamins, Cities+buildings, Collaborative creativity, Corporations, Design for Good, Economy, Events, Geography

Women's work: HBR's mean girls, the cats' meow

rdabrams wrote 2 months ago: Before the third and last segment of Ben’s review of the Bigger Picture, a pre-Hallowe’e … more →

Tags: Brain vitamins, just published!, Workplace, Women, Harvard business, Music

Reporting back from The Bigger Picture (1)

rdabrams wrote 2 months ago: While Turnstone is off to polish a class syllabus, and a massive master (Ms?) list of the trickle-tu … more →

Tags: Cities+buildings, Patterns+systems, sustainability, Brain vitamins, Turnstone rates, Storytelling, Economy, Design for Good, Programmed spaces

Tell us: Which women maker/thinkers do you most rate?

rdabrams wrote 2 months ago: Who are the women under 40* you most admire for doing cool stuff in tech-focused innovation and educ … more →

Tags: Turnstone at work, Patterns+systems, Interaction design, Words+pictures, Brain vitamins, Collaborative creativity, Storytelling, Workplace, Design for Good

Fast forward, Pause, Rewind, Eject

rdabrams wrote 2 months ago: Turnstone loves to celebrate old as well as new media on these pages. We can start with the new … more →

Tags: Patterns+systems, Interaction design, Words+pictures, Brain vitamins, Turnstone rates, Storytelling, just published!, Programmed spaces, interdisciplinary

Artist: Sounds a bit like 'activist'

rdabrams wrote 2 months ago: It’s that time of year, after the summer sag, before halloween then holiday mayhem, when every … more →

Tags: Interaction design, Brain vitamins, Collaborative creativity, Turnstone rates, Storytelling, Design for Good, Government

October Roundup: Measuring progress by foot

rdabrams wrote 2 months ago: Over the last week, Turnstone tiptoed to the green roof above the Open Planning Project’s new … more →

Tags: Turnstone at work, Design+Architecture, Brain vitamins, Collaborative creativity, Turnstone rates, transit, Material Culture, Education

The Bigger Picture: Festival of Interdependence

rdabrams wrote 3 months ago: Last week, a reader of the Turnstone blog posed the question, what’s the next big thing for Ne … more →

Tags: Cities+buildings, Patterns+systems, sustainability, Brain vitamins, Turnstone rates, Storytelling, Economy, Design for Good, Programmed spaces

The real architects of New York City: Rivers and tides1 comment

rdabrams wrote 3 months ago: Bachman's fish-eye map of New York and Environs (1857) This week’s opening of a new exhibi … more →

Tags: Turnstone, Cities+buildings, Patterns+systems, Words+pictures, Brain vitamins, Turnstone rates, Storytelling, Exhibits, interdisciplinary

Hey, Mister Tech President

rdabrams wrote 3 months ago: Turnstone went to listen in on a talk in SVA’s IxD series last week, by Scott Thomas, who is F … more →

Tags: Turnstone at work, Interaction design, Words+pictures, Brain vitamins, Collaborative creativity, Turnstone rates, Storytelling, Content Management, Rich Internet Applications

Art? Museums would rather stick a fork in it

rdabrams wrote 3 months ago: If you liked the train ride to the US Open, have a hundred bucks and an adventurous appetite, head b … more →

Tags: Cities+buildings, Turnstone rates, Exhibits, Programmed spaces, interdisciplinary, transit, Drawing / Illustration

Chain-rattling 2.01 comment

rdabrams wrote 3 months ago: In a palace in Rajasthan, there are still bolts on the marble walls where hundreds of years ago, a h … more →

Tags: Patterns+systems, Interaction design, Words+pictures, Brain vitamins, Turnstone rates, Design for Good, Programmed spaces, Policy, Government

Highlights of upcoming SVA IxD public lecture series

rdabrams wrote 3 months ago: This week, the inaugural class of the School of Visual Arts MFA in Interaction Design (IxD) met for … more →

Tags: Turnstone at work, Design+Architecture, Cities+buildings, Interaction design, Words+pictures, Brain vitamins, Collaborative creativity, Turnstone rates, Exhibits

Democracity in action: DIYCity and NYC.is

rdabrams wrote 3 months ago: Susannah Vila, a public policy student at Columbia, has recently released the beta of NYC.is, that i … more →

Tags: Turnstone, Cities+buildings, Patterns+systems, Collaborative creativity, Turnstone rates, Storytelling, Content Management, Design for Good, Programmed spaces

New Amsterdam Bike Slam

rdabrams wrote 4 months ago: Turnstone has been invited to participate in Transportation Alternatives‘ New Amsterdam Bike S … more →

Tags: Turnstone, Cities+buildings, Patterns+systems, Interaction design, sustainability, Turnstone rates, Design for Good, Programmed spaces, Policy

Stuffed

rdabrams wrote 4 months ago: Photo: © Thierry Ollivier / Musée Guimet Friday: An appropriate interlude for Turnstone’s homa … more →

Tags: Brain vitamins, Turnstone rates, Exhibits, Design for Good, Programmed spaces, technology, Material Culture


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