My Institute for the Future colleague Anthony Townsend is collaborating with Outside.in's John Geraci in a new effort for hacking the urban environment. DIYcity is having its first NYC meet-up tomorrow, January 14, at 7pm at the Project for Public Spaces. I'm really looking forward to how the project evolves! From the overview:
Intro: How do you want to reinvent your city?
Twitter bots, aggregators, social software, mobile apps – we use these things more and more in our daily routines to make our lives better. But can we also use them to remake our cities altogether? How can these technologies be applied to transform urban spaces, changing them from the centralized, hard-coded things they are today into finely-tuned, fluid, user-operated systems that are efficient, sustainable and fit for life in the 21st century?
DIYcity is a place where people figure these things out by actually building and launching applications that address the problems around them.
UPDATE: Sean Savage says there's a DIYcity meet-up in San Francisco tomorrow, too!
