Elephants on Bicycles

The summer has shaped up to being full of interesting projects; not the least of which is this week’s speaking engagement at The Ohio State University’s Knowlton School of Architecture conference “Communicative Cities”. I’m honored to be speaking with Lily Shirvanee (University of Cambridge – “The social viscosities study: Mapping social activities in public space”) and Andrew Taylor (Lincoln Street Studio – “Multiple commitments: Practicing diffuse ties as a mode of civic engagement”) from 3pm to 4:30pm on Friday, June 26, 2009.

For a quick reminder of what I’ll be talking about take a look at this post about Hyperlocal Strategies which is a basis for what I submitted. Since things are changing all the time the presentation will reflect the learning since I posted this submission.

If you’d like more information on the conference and/or would like to attend check out the registration info and schedule here. I hope to see you there!

Friday night was a great time seeing friends, making new friends and watching some great Ignite Columbus presentations. I don’t dare try and choose a favorite one from the evening but the top three were probably Dan’s Mechanical Turk, the DynamIT guy’s Infinity (wish he had 10 minutes for this one though) and the presentation about Kurdistan which was excellent. As you may remember I also presented about the Digitalocracy. Below is the video of all of the presentations (mine begins at about 2min 30sec) and below that is my Slideshare if you want to see the slides I used a little more easily.