Facilitating Change

Innovation Grounds 1.0

21. November 2011

This mind map lays out a framework for thinking about “innovation grounds” — spaces where people can come together and generate ideas, solutions, knowledge, culture, and relationships. It emerged from perceiving coworking spaces as next-generation telecentres; seeing connections between telecentres, coworking spaces, hackerspaces, and libraries; and being somewhat exasperated at how libraries are often overlooked as key actors in community development — despite the fact that they’ve always been places where people convene, learn, and create (especially information... and we’re in the information age, Hello!).

Porte Parole at Pecha Kucha

18. November 2009

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Annabel Soutar, co-founder of the amazing Porte Parole, will present at Pecha Kucha Montreal tonight. Care about democracy? Citizen engagement? Clear your schedule and be there!

An open letter to Bluehost: Your values matter

13. February 2009

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I’ve been a good Bluehost customer for years. They host this website. I’ve used them for almost all of my websites and have recommended them to countless clients and friends. It’s time for them to step up. Values matter. Dear Bluehost, I understand from Ethan Zuckerman that you recently disabled Kubatana’s blog, despite the fact [...]

Ushahidi: Crowdsourcing Crisis Information

2. February 2009

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Ushahidi (“testimony” in Swahili) is an experimental web platform that crowdsources crisis information. People can submit reports via text messaging using a mobile phone, email, or the web. Looks like it can be deployed (sorry, geek speak) for a specific crisis. It was most recently use to track events in Gaza and was also used [...]

Work alongside farmworkers in Florida

20. November 2008

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I had the pleasure of doing a bit of work for the Student-Farmworker Alliance for my master’s practicum. I learned about the situation of farmworkers in Florida from a 2003 article by John Bowe in the New Yorker: “Nobodies: Does Slavery Exist in America?” (download PDF). You may be surprised, but U.S. Department of Justice [...]

Designer wanted for book on urban ecology, activism, local history

19. November 2008

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Artefatica is looking for a print designer to create a 40- to 70-page book to be published in April 2009. The book, Memorial of Weeds: Wildest Dreams for Our Urban Cores, will document “Sprout Out Loud!” (an environmental art project) alongside community reflections about a controversial piece of land soon to be developed by the [...]

Contribute to the Memorial of Weeds

19. November 2008

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Memories, stories, dreams, visions, photos, newspaper clipping, city plans, archives — you name it, we want to include it in an upcoming book: Memorial of Weeds: Wildest Dreams for Our Urban Cores (working title). I’m (through Artefatica) helping Montreal artist Emily Rose Michaud, the force behind the Mile End’s Roerich Garden, to produce a book [...]

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Innovation Grounds 1.0

Porte Parole at Pecha Kucha

An open letter to Bluehost: Your values matter

Ushahidi: Crowdsourcing Crisis Information

Work alongside farmworkers in Florida

Designer wanted for book on urban ecology, activism, local history

Contribute to the Memorial of Weeds

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