The creative economy is building ideas, rather than products first, Neil Kleinman tells the Empowerment Group in a recent interview.
Kleinman, a senior fellow of the Corzo Center for the Creative Economy at the University of the Arts and former dean of that school’s College of Liberal Arts, discusses the center, its role, building business around ideas and how that can help Philadelphia.
If you’ve always wanted to have your art displayed in front of, literally, everyone in the city, here’s your second chance.
Arts technology epicentre Breadboard has announced that its Art in the Air program, which allows artists to compete to have their digital works displayed on the LED display atop the PECO building in downtown Philadelphia, has opened for the 2011 season.
We covered the program last summer.
The program’s upcoming deadlines for submissions are as follows:
- For September display: Aug 23th
- For October display: Sept 27th
- For November display: Oct 25th
- For December display: Nov 22nd
More information at Breadboard’s site.
Electronic Ink's 911 command center dashboard.
Philadelphia-based user experience and design firm Electronic Ink will be featured in an exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art starting next week.
The firm’s design exploration of 911 call center interfaces will be included in the museum’s Talk to Me: Design and the Communication between People and Objects.
After a federal study identified that significant improvements could be made to dispatcher technology, the company created an interface that emphasizes the caller, provides easy-to-use display gestures for calling action, and utilizes a dark palette built for the dark environments common to dispatch rooms.
The exhibit starts on July 24 and runs through November 7.
As the Philadelphia Business Journal reported on Monday, the US Airways Community Foundation provided $250,000 to the Franklin Institute for its museum expansion and $62 million capital campaign, according to a press release.
From the release:
“US Airways’ support is vital in allowing the Institute to further its mission – to inspire a passion for learning about science and technology,” said Don Callaghan, Institute Trustee and Chair of the Inspire Science! campaign. “Their assistance with this campaign allows us to continue to expand our efforts to provide one-of-a-kind, world-class science experiences that impact hundreds of thousands of schoolchildren and families every year.”
Leadership Philadelphia is a 50-year-old nonprofit charged with finding, training and elevating tomorrow’s leaders.
The group’s executive director Liz Dow has launched the Connectors project, hoping to highlight the trusted, lesser known leaders of the region. Now, in a partnership with WHYY, Leadership and Dow are seeking out Creative Connectors. Ought not the technology community play a role in such a list? The deadline for nominations is this Friday, July 1.
Nominate a Philadelphia Creative Connector.
The nominee can be active in art, music, theater, design, writing, cooking, digital media or any other creative endeavor.
Listen to Dow speak about the project with WHYY’s Dave Heller on NewsWorks Tonight.
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An iPhone rendering of the Philly Mural Guide, which can be visited on any smart phone or web browser. Click to visit.
OpenDataPhilly.org was unveiled with a roar last Monday as part of Philly Tech Week. But while a catalog of regional data, APIs and applications is a treasure trove to some, it’s a brick wall to many others.
Data, thou art inscrutable.
As a better example of why releasing data is important, two Code for America fellows with help from a third developed and launched the Philadelphia Mural Guide app. Aaron Ogle and John Mertens, with Mjumbe Poe, used the MuralFarm collection of locations, images and other information on the city’s expansive outdoor art, to develop the project. The app received enough attention that Web 2.0 star Tim O’Reilly tweeted its grandeur.
“It’s a web-based application that can be viewed from a mobile device or desktop browser,” says Jeff Friedman, recently named Mayor Nutter’s Manager of Civic Innovation and Participation, noting it also shares details and images of included pieces. “It will locate your position on a map and your proximity to mural artwork in Philadelphia.”
A feature on Azavea building tools for the Wilma Theater, and other art organizations, to find trends in their subscriber base, from Directions Magazine. It is not unlike this project from MPIP and the Cultural Alliance.
via A Geographic Gap Analysis Uncovers New Markets for Nonprofits – Directions Magazine.
Google celebrates Valentine’s Day by using Robert Indiana’s LOVE theme, which, of course, Philadelphia has plenty to say about.
By cross-listing social indicators and staff outreach, a Temple University-housed data shop is going to give the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance a tool to determine areas within this region where partnerships between arts organizations working on social issues and other activist groups are most likely to be successful.
“We tell stories with data and information,’ says Metropolitan Philadelphia Indicators Project coordinator Michelle Schmitt. “This project is a perfect example of that.”
It’s called the “Road Map for Regional Activity Analysis,” and the tool, expected to be completed in the spring, does three main things:
Technically Philly is a platform to connect, cover and discuss Philadelphia’s technology community, and we want to give its members a chance to speak. If you’d like to offer a relevant perspective or cover a community event, drop us a line.
This piece was written by Gloria Bell, of Red Stapler Consulting, the events director of Philly Startup Leaders and a frequent supporter the Philadelphia technology community.
History has demonstrated that the development of sub-communities is often a commonplace result of advancement.
The rapid growth of the technology and creative communities in Philadelphia over the last few years is no exception to this phenomenon. It seems that the more these communities grow, the more silos are developing between and within the spheres of business, technology and creativity. A simple search on Meetup.com reveals 22 technology groups, 220 business groups and too many different networks falling into the “creative” sector to even accurately count. And the reality is there are many other organizations, events and informal networks that are not even included in these Meetup.com counts.
However, these communities are now faced with a pivotal question. How do we continue to shape this growth?
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