Instinct probably tells you that you’ll pay a lot more to live in a downtown apartment, above a grocery store, next to a bar strip and within walking distance of your work place than you will to settle into a comparable home in a bedroom community outside of the city. As this model of compact urban living grows more popular – and every new housing projection reaffirms that it is – walkable places are also growing more expensive.
A bond forged in storm-ravaged New Orleans between actor Brad Pitt and a local architecture firm is bearing fruit in Kansas City — and may show the path forward to reusing dozens of empty schools.
(via Brad Pitt’s foundation to help redevelop Bancroft School)
Check out this article about the GOOD Ideas for Cities forum held in Portland on Thursday. ADX approached PNCA Collaborative Design to collaborate on our Marshall High School plan. It turned out pretty awesome. So then we helped present! Looking forward to see what comes of this.
A nonprofit organization that engages marginalized youth in music and performance in order to promote self-esteem, social skills and emotional expression.
By partnering with local alternative schools and other non-profit agencies we provide free music programs in areas where needs are high but funding for services is low.
All of our services are provided for free, or at a “pay what you can afford” rate, to the youth we serve. Instruments, instruction and funding are provided through the generous support of our community, volunteers and partnerships.
Tahrir square, 25th of January 2012, Egypt revolution 2.0. We are not done yet. Photo by: Jeff J Mitchell
Self-orginizing System / A pattern appears from the local interaction of the elements that make up the system.
Barter For Instruction: TradeSchool
Take a class with a range of specialized teachers in exchange for basic items and services. Secure a spot in a TradeSchool class by meeting one of the teacher’s barter needs.
Brought to my attention by Danielle Olson (PNCA Collaborative Design Student)
Arcosanti/Arizona and Rural Studio/Alabama meet!
A really wonderful essay by Will Holman; On the Front Lines of Social Design: on Design Observer
Superman will not save public education, but we can.
Since Waiting for “Superman” was first released in theaters in the fall of 2010, our community of parents, teachers, administrators and activists has risen to the challenge and turned a movie into a movement.
Emergent complexity can arise from simple interactions between agents following rules. The complexity that arises is suprising and challenges our assumptions about whether order comes from the top or the bottom. Life and consciousness are examples of emergent phenomena.
The Occupy Wall Street encampment may be gone, but the protest’s legacy lives on across New York City through Steven Greaves’ 99 Portraits for the 99 Percent. Click HERE to see all 99 portraits.
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