[Hidden-tech] Event 9/27 update: James Kitchen and Evan Plotkin to speak at Creative Placemaking and Tactical Urbanism Symposium

[Lisa Hoag]

Stacy,
Thank you for the raves for our Creative Placemaking Symposium :) -
appreciated! We will be posting pictures of the event shortly.

I'd like to give credit for for all the super folks who presented and
helped get the word out for this event, especially Jeff Bianchine, and
Katie Stebbins, who really helped to get out the word to make this a
success:
Jeff Bianchine, Creative Economy Coordinator for Holyoke
Marcos Marrero, City Planner for Holyoke
Katie Stebbins, Project Manager, Holyoke Innovation District
Jessica Allan, City Planner for Easthampton
Lisa DePiano, Permaculturalist of Mobile Design Lab
Nancy Howard, MLA of the Creature Crawl, and the Dinosaur Garden
James Kitchen and Evan Plotkin, for the project "Birdicus Gigantium" in
Downtown Springfield
Rich Stewart, Visualization Digital Artist, Designer, and Strategist of New
York City
Joseph Krupczynski, Associate Professor, Architecture + Design Program at
Umass Amherst
St. Pierre of Co-ex Corporation
All the people who showed up, and gave their wonderful ideas projects, and
thoughtful ideas made this a super day.

Please like our new Design Venturers Western Mass Facebook page, to learn
about followup events to our Creative Placemaking symposium which we will
be planning:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Design-Venturers-Western-Mass/642668199101126?ref=hl
or to join Design Venturers Western Mass:
http://www.meetup.com/Design-Venturers-Western-Mass/

Cheers,

Lisa



On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 9:27 AM, Stacy Kontrabecki
<swampdancer at comcast.net>wrote:

>    ** Be sure to fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area.
>    ** If you did, we all thank you.
>
>
>
>  This was a great event! If you love where you live, you MUST attend next
> year. So glad I took a break from planning TEDxShelburneFalls to attend. A
> great complement to what we'll be doing here on 10/12. I think the speaker
> slides will be available at one of the Design Ventures social sites.
>
> Kudos Lisa Hoag!
>
> Stacy Kontrabecki, MBA
> MA Lic. Forester #311
> FSC and ISO 9001 Consultantwww.swampdancer.com
> +1 (413) 625-9203 office+1 (413) 834-3423 mobile
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> On 9/25/13 8:34 PM, Lisa Hoag wrote:
>
>    ** Be sure to fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area.
>    ** If you did, we all thank you.
>
>
>
>
>
>  Hi Everyone,
>
> We have some wonderful additional speakers such as James Kitchen, and his
> sponsor, Even Plotkin, speaking about their project to erect a 35' tall
> bird sculpture in downtown Springfield, at One Financial Plaza. We also
> have a company talking about it's collaboration to build a translucent free
> standing shelter for a farmers market near Boston.
>
> In addition, the venue itself is fascinating, The Massachusetts Green High
> Performance Computing Center in Holyoke. This is a high speed data
> processing facility, newly built in Holyoke as a collaborative of five
> universities; Harvard, MIT, BU, Northeastern, and Umass, to do large scale
> data processing for research for these universities. It sits between two
> canals. the processors are water powered, and water cooled. The building
> itself is beautifully designed.
>
> We will also be having a brainstorming session at lunch to identify future
> collaborative public art and design projects.
>
> To Register, and for more information:
>
> Event Title:
> Landscape Architecture, Tactical Urbanism, Public Art, Popup Parks: The
> Power of Design to Transform Our Neighborhoods, hosted by Design Venturers
> Western Mass
>
> To register for the event:
> http://designventurerswm.eventbrite.com/
> You can find a schedule and list of speakers there.
>
> The Facebook event page:
> https://www.facebook.com/events/546271855437943/
>
> I'd love it if you would like the DVWM facebook page:
>
> https://www.facebook.com/pages/Design-Venturers-Western-Mass/642668199101126
>
> Here is the event on the DVWM meetup:
> http://www.meetup.com/Design-Venturers-Western-Mass/events/106560942/
> All the Best,
>  Lisa
>
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> Lisa Hoag Designs
> PO Box 983
> Wendell, MA 01379
> http://www.lisahoagdesigns.com
>
>
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