December 7, 2011, Urban Placemaking: Design of Third Places, LevineMachine.com
In Ray Oldenburg’s book, The Great Good Place, we’re introduced to the idea of Third Places – places we meet to eat, drink, and socialize with friends, family, and acquaintances. How do diverse elements combine to make a place more than just habitable, but memorable? Better design in (and more of!) these places will make our society more resilient, and better our cities as a result.
November 1, 2011, Co(lab)oration, Urban Resilience Series, ASU Biodesign Institute
A collaborative approach to life is a human way of life that many of us no longer notice, and it is essential to social resilience. This event involved PhD students working on biotechnology and an improv troop performing audience requests.
July 13, 2011, TEDxPhoenixLive, GateWay Community College
TEDxPhoenix and TEDxScottsdale joined forces to invite you to an exclusive screening of TEDGLOBAL 2011: The Stuff of Life. This incredible event brought together a select few to view sessions from Edinburgh, Scotland.
April 21, 2011, “Urban Sustainability,” ASU SkySong
What are we doing in this desert? How can the merely four million of us now here live here going forward? Why would we want to? What can we do about living here? That’s a lot to cover in just 3 1/2 hours. Will all of it be dealt with then? No. Will each basic question be intriguingly asked and answered? Resoundingly yes! Each of you live here. You invest a large part of your waking day paying for the quality of the rest of that day. Can that quality improve? Invest 3 /12 more hours hearing from some people trying to do just that.
March 2, 2011, “The Rediscovery of Wonder“simulcast TED conference, Trinity Episcopal Cathedral