New Tech for Participatory Planning: Grade A for a grey day

The Open Planning Project hosted New Technology for Participatory Planning – an ‘unconference’ last Friday, and what a grade A way to spend a grey day at the end of the week. The crowd was a pretty even split of techies and planners – the Regional Planning Association co-hosted. So the room was full of [...]

“Best Square Wins” Goes Public

Turnstone is delighted to report that one of our favorite grad school exercises is busting out of the classroom next week: “Best Square Wins”, an educational ‘graphics exercise crossed with Survivor’, will be played out to the general public on Tuesday next week, as part of “The Public School for Architecture”, a project for public [...]

NYPL Live: Capitalism and the Future

From grass-roots to ski-slopes, we’re shifting seamlessly from posts about London’s Bigger Picture to skip off to the New York Public Library Live event this evening (Tuesday 7pm): The Aspen Institute presents Capitalism and the Future, a light pre-dinner aperitif from the Institute’s President, Walter Isaacson, Black Swan author, Nassim Taleb, Harvard economist, Niall Ferguson, Google’s [...]

Reporting Back from The Bigger Picture (3): Got any small change?

Here’s the third and final installment of Ben Reizenstein’s round up from The Bigger Picture, part of nef’s Day of Interdependence, which took place last weekend in London: 
I don’t catch the name of the woman who is suddenly standing next to the queue, talking to us, her captive audience, about local currencies in the Welsh [...]

Women’s work: HBR’s mean girls, the cats’ meow

Before the third and last segment of Ben’s review of the Bigger Picture, a pre-Hallowe’en interlude… A few months ago we wrote Hey Ladies, about women’s experience of work, queen bees and wannabees with a paycheck. This, on a related topic from Harvard Business Review blog, caught Turnstone’s eye. It’s about working with colleagues who, short of [...]

Reporting back from The Bigger Picture (1)

While Turnstone is off to polish a class syllabus, and a massive master (Ms?) list of the trickle-turned-into-a-flood responses to our question about women in tech, it gives us great pleasure to hand the mic over to a guest contributor.
We dedicate the next three posts to a detailed review of the new economics foundation’s Day [...]

Tell us: Which women maker/thinkers do you most rate?

Who are the women under 40* you most admire for doing cool stuff in tech-focused innovation and education, science, product and service design, bio- and medical research, gaming, digital publishing right now? 
We’ll tell you why we’re asking soon. We’ve already lined up a shortlist, but if you’d like to volunteer your peers, your self or [...]

Fast forward, Pause, Rewind, Eject

Turnstone loves to celebrate old as well as new media on these pages. We can start with the new – the incredibly beautiful visualizations that BERG London have made (our friends at Schulze and Webb and now Jones, and while we’re at it, sometimes Arnall – who’ve renamed themselves). By methods best left to their [...]

Artist: Sounds a bit like ‘activist’

It’s that time of year, after the summer sag, before halloween then holiday mayhem, when every man and his erudite dog has a right-on event going this weekend. While NEF’s Day of Interdependence (mentioned here a post or two ago) takes place in London on Saturday (we’ll have a report from there next week), Eyebeam [...]

October Roundup: Measuring progress by foot

Over the last week, Turnstone tiptoed to the green roof above the Open Planning Project’s new office, just up Lafayette St, reminiscent of the lovely SCI-Arc-designed one in Downtown LA on top of the ex-Holiday Inn (now called ‘The Flats’); on the latest carless trip to LA this month, walked to the Petersen Automobile Museum [...]