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cubicgarden
[ ID ] 7b4d3a0e-45ef-4840-9575-bd068ce4e510
[ Submitter's Name ] Madeline Ashby
[ Submitter's Twitter ] @MadelineAshby
[ Space ] cities [ Secondary Space ]
[ Format ] hands-on
Description
This workshop will encourage participants to design interventions for increasingly gentrified, private, guarded, and surveilled spaces, in urban, suburban, and rural environments. Climate change, increasing wealth and privilege gaps, increased surveillance, and other strains are pulling residents of urban and rural environments even further apart than they were before -- even in the face of global communications technology. How can we bridge the gap? How can we share experiences by sharing challenges?
Agenda
I will let groups first choose a time (between five and fifty years from now), then an environment, then a problem, and then an intervention. Crucially, groups will move between tables/scenarios at each phase, allowing them to interact with several different scenarios at once.
Participants
Even with only a few participants, this setup can still work. I might not do the rotation of scenarios with only a handful of participants, but I would still allow for multiple scenarios.
Outcome
I want to expand the dialogue about equitable design interventions to include the urban and rural divide. We use much of the same technologies in the same spaces, but it's important to understand how those communities might make use of those technologies.