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Civic Engagement and Design Dinner 10.14.17

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Saturday 10/14/17:

Civic Engagement and Design DINNER

 

This dinner brought together a distinguished group of artists, designers, activists, architects, and academics, committed to work in the civic realm. 

 

Some of the Dinner Conversation:

"We don't realize the value-add of being in a space together" Sabrina Dorsainvil
"How do we create a network of 'do what you can' together?" Sarah Williams
"Providing the space for those dialogues" Ben Peterson
Challenges to establishing, "the politics of solidarity" Kenny Bailey

Plate notes left behind on the table:

 

Dinner Guests:

Kenneth Bailey, Co Founder, Design Studio for Social Intervention

Catherine D'Ignazio, Assistant Professor of Civic Media & Data Visualization, Emerson College, & Affiliate Researcher, MIT

Sabrina Dorsainvil, Civic Designer + Program Director, Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics, City of Boston

Lina Maria Giraldo, Artist/ Educator, Interactive Storyteller towards Social Change 

Ken Gordon, Content, Conversation, and Community Strategist at Continuum, the global innovation design firm

Ceasar McDowell, Professor of the Practice of Civic Design, MIT | Department of Urban Studies and Planning

Mark Pasnik, over,under / pinkcomma gallery & Wentworth Institute of Technology

Benjamin Peterson, Boston Architectural College

Sarah Williams, Director Civic Data Design Lab, Assistant Professor Urban Planning, MIT School of Architecture and Planning (SA+P)