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 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.
Boston Smart City Policy
I led the direction of a number of Smart City initiatives of the City of Boston, including the creation of the City’s first Smart City Playbook, the writing and management of the largest technology RFP to come directly out of the Mayor’s Office in the 21st Century (Beta Blocks), the creation of the Local Sense Lab - a way for the City to better understand the affordances (and pitfalls) of IoT sensor technology - and even our first ever Robot Block Party.
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.
Civic Research Agenda
As a member of the Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics, I helped write the City of Boston’s first ever Civic Research Agenda, which we described as: “A primer on the questions we're asking, the problems that stump us, and the partnerships we need.” Read it here!
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