Engagement Center
The Engagement Center is a harm reduction day shelter and the lowest threshold space in the City of Boston — meaning those with nowhere else to go can receive care, services, and shelter.
The People’s Late Night
I was the technical director and creative collaborator for the People’s Late Night, a live, 2.5-hour multicamera talk show we hosted on a street corner on a Friday Night. Whimsy and sweet coolness emerged. Produced by the Design Studio for Social Intervention.
HOSTED BY DZIDZOR AZAGLO + BROTHER DULI
LIVESTREAMED | DJ SET BY DA MEKONNEN
FRIDAY OCT 25, 8-10:30PM, CORNER OF STRAND THEATER
543 COLUMBIA RD, DORCHESTER 02125
UpRiver
UpRiver is a two part early warning / early action game for understanding and forecasting water levels along flood-prone areas of rivers. The first part is an analog game designed to help those in flood-prone communities better understand the models of river flooding and the importance of upstream-downstream communication for reducing flood losses. The second part, an SMS-based game played on cell phones, aims to both put into place an actual communication network that relays upstream information (thus triggering preparedness measures downstream), and to crowd-source river level data to improve computer models.
The Third Spaces Lab
I helped create and lead the City of Boston’s Third Spaces Lab, an incubator of 18 distinct projects aimed at making Boston’s public spaces more welcoming, connective, and creative. We defined "Third Spaces" as places that contribute to our collective well-being, including everything from parks to barbershops to coffee shops. As part of Bloomberg Philanthropies’ i-teams Program, the City embarked on these diverse initiatives aimed at sparking community-driven enhancements to vital spaces.
Community PlanIt
Community PlanIt was a game for community planning, used for processes and issues ranging from the City of Detroit’s Long Term Plan, to youth unemployment in Moldova, to school planning in the LA Unified School District and Boston Public Schools.
See You In The Future
The SYITF collective formed in 2021 following a big “sweep” of Boston’s largest tent encampment for unhoused people. Our team members came to the project with varied backgrounds including peer support, health justice advocacy, and community co-design.
As stories stigmatizing and disempowering unhoused people made headlines, we looked for creative ways to support members of the tent encampment in sharing their more nuanced and on-the-ground stories.
New Urban Mechanics Labs
Designing in the cracks, fissures, and in-betweens of civic life: where jurisdiction is unclear, struggles and taboo subjects abound, and the unexpected is a building block for beginning something New. The is the place the New Urban Mechanics work.
The New Urban Mechanics Labs is a new, emerging place where these mechanics, these civic innovators, these caregivers standing alone on limbs trying something new, can call a living room. A place to share, to be seen, to rest, to refuel, to be inspired, to experiment, to find the next right thing to do in building a more peaceful, equitable, and curious world.
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