Crowdsourcing Silence in the Urban Din
Do you have a short list of quiet places you go to escape all that? Jason Sweeney, an Australian sound artist, wants you to share them. The winner of a $10,000 TED Imagining the City 2.0 prize, Sweeney aims to build a crowdsourced clearinghouse of the quietest places in our loud cities.
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Bring GOOD Ideas for Cities to Your City: Download Our Toolkit
- Alissa Walker wrote in Cities, Ceos For Cities and Urban Design
Since 2008, we’ve been we’ve been hosting GOOD Ideas for Cities events across the country, where local creatives team up with civic leaders to solve real-life urban challenges. The initiative has resulted in dozens of implemented solutions, from a board game that helps house the homeless in L.A., to a neighborhood revitalization project in Dallas, to a network of urban beacons which connects St. Louis both physically and virtually.
Now, in partnership with CEOs for Cities, and thanks to a generous grant from ArtPlace, we’ve published a toolkit that will allow anyone who wants to make a difference in their community to launch a GOOD Ideas for Cities initiative locally.
These IBM ads double as benches & shelter from the rain
- Shauna Nep shared in Cities, Design and Smart Cities
IBM believes that city planning and design should have the citizens in mind. IBM’s “People For Smarter Cities” ads double as benches, ramps and shelter from the rain. The project aims to encourage ‘smarter thinking’ when it comes to coming up with solutions for the city. The ads also encourage people to share their ideas on how they can improve their neighborhood.
New TED-Ed Platform Aims to Bring TED Talks Into the Classroom
With this week’s launch of TED-Ed, the organization that’s spent the past six years providing free YouTube access to “ideas worth spreading’ is merging short lessons from excellent teachers with high-quality video production and animation in order to engage a new generation of learners. By harnessing the expertise of educators to build out its video library, TED sends the message that teachers matter.
GOOD Ideas for Cities is going to the Venice Biennale!
Alissa Walker and our GOOD Ideas for Cities project is representing the U.S. at the 13th International Architecture Biennale in Venice, Italy on August 29!
What were we up to today? Oh, nothing much, chilling in our garden. We had to relax before tonight’s big meet up across the world to discuss the latest issue of our quarterly magazine, The Cities Issue: Starring Los Angeles. Click through to find out how you can participate!
The GOOD Cities Issue Party: June 1 in a City Near You - Cities - GOOD
Why the Most Literate Cities in America Aren’t the Wealthiest
Apparently, money can’t buy literacy. Dr. John Miller says he “learned that wealthier cites are no more likely to rank highly in literacy than poorer cities." Although "poverty has a strong impact on educational attainment,” Miller says, cities that are “truly committed to literacy” can find a way to “create and sustain rich resources for reading."
GOOD Ideas for Cities: Designing Guerrilla Bike Signage
How to make a city’s streets more comfortable for bikers? A team from New Orleans went ahead and installed their own bikeway signage.
Cities don’t always respond effectively to the needs of their communities. Frequently, those needs get encumbered by red tape. As a result, technology is evolving to create more fluid communication between the people and the polity, and IBM is betting that it won’t be long before you’ll notice it. By 2017, there’s expected to be more than three billion smart phones in the world, opening up cities to people like never before. Check out the video here.
Illustration and animation by Brent Clouse.
GOOD Local: Coming Soon to Your City
- GOOD HQ wrote in Community, Local and Cities
We’re incredibly excited by the overwhelming interest in GOOD Local. In the past two weeks, more than 1,000 applications have poured in from all around the world. Members of GOOD community from over 400 cities have raised their hand to start GOOD Local in their community. Thank you for your energy and enthusiasm. We can’t wait to get started.
We closed the first round of applications on February 1, but we’re still accepting applications on a rolling basis and will be inviting select applicants to join their GOOD Local chapter team throughout the year. You can apply to become a GOOD Local Chapter leader here.
Many of you have written in asking us how you can stay posted on GOOD Local developments in your city. Sign up here to be notified when GOOD Local launches in your city.
As always, feel free to drop us a line in the comments below or email us at local@goodinc.com
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