World Charter for the Right to the City

By On October 2, 2011 · Leave a Comment

(Liberated into HTML from one of the many PDFs of this document, this text in particular was found at UrbanReinventors.net on October 2, 2011. See wikipedia for more on the idea of the Right to the City. I posted this after mulling over the Declaration of the Occupation of New York City [...]

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John Dewey 2.0 – We the P2P Public, Reassembling, Eclipsed No More

By On August 22, 2011 · Leave a Comment

John Dewey wrote 2.5 human generations ago (in 1927) about what we now find so valuable in digital peer to peer systems of communication that enable better freedom of Expression, Transparency, and Collaboration. Dewey’s writing was in response to Walter Lippmann who wrote cynically about the “Phantom Public” and in that era of broadcast-top-down-one-way-media on the rise [...]

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Civic Social Media – Fixcity.org PARK(ing) Day Video

By On January 23, 2010 · Leave a Comment

“We now have all these powerful social technologies that instead of using them for entertainment purposes we can use them for civic purposes.”

Been thinking about my product design work on mass collaboration and ongoing sustainability of peoples’ participation. The short video below on PARK(ing) Day includes nice shots of the fixcity.org site [...]

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