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‘Come To Urban Geek Drinks, A Monthly Happy Hour For Civic Do-Gooders In Philly!

May 30, 2013

Events

Urban Geek Drinks, is a monthly happy hour for a diverse group of civic do-gooders in Philadelphia. It’s an opportunity for you to connect with other people who give a damn and are working incredibly hard to make Philadelphia a really great city. Organized by Aaron Ogle of Open Plans and Alex Gilliam of Public Workshop, it grows […]

The Department Of Making + Doing Wins Grants From ArtPlace, Cognizant, + Knight.

May 22, 2013

News

We couldn’t be more pleased to announce that over the past couple of months, The Department of Making + Doing (DM+D) has won a series of significant grants from ArtPlace, Knight Arts Challenge, and Cognizant, as part of its Making the Future STEM education program. DM+D is the ‘making’ oriented civic innovation workshop/makerspace that we have opened with our […]

‘Let Youth And Communities Design And Build Our Future’-A Video About #TinyWPA

May 16, 2013

News

Amazing things happen to a community when its most resilient members–youth–are empowered to visibly take the lead in designing, building, and problem solving for its future. This Spring, the fine folks at Compostmodern did a great job of documenting the talk I gave about TinyWPA and the incredibly moving community design-build project that we did […]