IDEAS Program May 28–30, 2015 Around the CITY

ideas-city.org FESTIVAL@ideascity #ideascity IDEAS CITY is a collaborative, civic program founded by the New Museum in Conference May 28, 2015 2011 on the premise that art and culture are essential to the vitality of cities. IDEAS CITY builds on the New Museum’s mission of “New Art, New Ideas” by expanding the Museum beyond its walls into the civic realm. Addressing the key challenges and opportunities facing cities around the world today, the Festival creates networks, seeds concrete projects, and harnesses cultural capital for economic development.

Executive Committee IDEAS CITY provides an important Great Hall, the platform for thinkers and practitioners New Museum (Founder) from a variety of disciplines, including the Lisa Phillips, Toby Devan Lewis Director Karen Wong, Deputy Director arts, design, architecture, urban planning, Location: Tickets: Livestreaming: Great Hall, Tickets may be purchased at ideas-city.org All events will be livestreamed Joseph Grima, Director, IDEAS CITY technology, science, business, sociology, the Cooper Union $50 Conference Pass for all Thursday events on the IDEAS CITY website: Corinne Erni, Senior Producer, IDEAS CITY 7 East 7th Street at the Cooper Union including Mayoral Conversation ideas-city.org Richard Flood, Director of Special Projects and education, as well as civic and govern- (between 3rd and $25 Mayoral Conversation only Free for students with valid I.D., as capacity allows. and Curator at Large 4th Avenues) mental institutions, to exchange ideas, Space is limited The Architectural League of New York locate problems, propose solutions, and Rosalie Genevro, Executive Director engage the public’s participation. Theme: • The designers shaping the cities of the future must Bowery Poetry Club engage with an increasingly challenging set of hypothe- Bob Holman, Founder and Proprietor tical conditions—scenarios that often remain invisible to This year’s IDEAS CITY Festival will take their inhabitants. How do urbanists, artists, architects, The Cooper Union place May 28–30 and center on the theme of and activists create habitats that anticipate drastic Elizabeth O’Donnell, Acting Dean, future change such as overcrowding and climate change? The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture The Invisible City. Dozens of artists, one hundred organizations, and tens of thousands of visitors • A vast proportion of our lives exists as an invisible The Drawing Center will come together to explore questions of online record of our identities, interests, and affiliations. Brett Littman, Executive Director transparency and surveillance, citizenship and What role do data and privacy play in the perpetuation representation, expression and suppression, of democracy in the twenty-first century? Storefront for Art and Architecture participation and dissent, and the enduring Eva Franch i Gilabert, Executive Director and Chief Curator quest for visibility in the city. • We are increasingly dependent on global-network infrastructures that are as invisible as they are vast. How can networks and processes be made more The Festival will kick off with a series of talks, transparent, accessible, and empowering? How can they panels, discussions, and short films at the Great guarantee accountability? Can art be the connective Hall at the Cooper Union. Speakers will include membrane in this process? some of the world’s most forward-thinking visionaries, who will discuss key civic issues • Within the city, an increasing number of people— and formulate action for the city of tomorrow. such as the homeless, the elderly, and undocumented Panelists will address the following pressing immigrants—are disappearing from sight. Is there a cartography to identify those who have wandered or questions, among many others: been driven from the center?

Program is subject to change Please visit ideas-city.org for updates @IDEASCITY #IDEASCITY 3 IDEAS-CITY.ORG 9:30–10 AM Selected Photographs from Mapa-Mundi BR (postal), 2007 Hope and Toward a Plausible Utopia Rivane Neuenschwander Unrest in Jonathas Yto Barrada 10 min (looped) de Andrade Artist As the speed of technological innovation 12:15–1 PM The Invisible Artist Yto Barrada was born in Paris accelerates, life in the twenty-first Jonathas de Andrade lives and and grew up in Tangier, Morocco. century metropolis is coming closer to works in Recife, Brazil, and She studied history and political 10–10:10 AM City creates art that investigates science at the Sorbonne and fulfilling the predictions of science-fiction cultural phenomena that are photography at the International in danger of vanishing. He has Center of Photography. Her work writers of decades past, and not always for the best. Many of the moves across photography, film, Toby Devan Lewis Director, New Museum participated in the 12th Lyon most apocalyptic scenarios envisioned by novelists—extreme Lisa Phillips Biennial (2013), the 2nd New publications, and installation, and Bjarke Ingels Kim Stanley Robinson 11 AM–12:15 PM Museum Triennial (2012), the engages with the specific situation overcrowding, conflict driven by climate change, the crisis of 12th Istanbul Biennial (2011), the of Tangier as a transitory locale. Architect, Founder, Bjarke Ingels Novelist Director, IDEAS CITY capitalism, mass uprisings—have also become all too familiar. Joseph Grima 29th São Paulo Biennial (2010), She is the cofounder of the Cinémathèque de Tanger and a Group (BIG) Robinson is best known for his award-winning and the 7th Mercosul Biennial Could it be that the solutions to today’s challenges are already “Mars” trilogy (1993–99), in which humans, in light The age of network culture member of the Beirut-based Arab Bjarke Ingels is renowned for his innovative ap- (2009). In 2012, he received a of environmental catastrophe, are forced to colonize Image Foundation. Barrada’s written? What can architects learn from the wild speculations of proach to sustainable development and renewable special jury prize for the Future the planet Mars. His books address issues revolving offers new, powerful tools for work was recently featured in the energy, and his acclaimed architectural practice, Generation Art Prize Exhibition their literary heroes? Two of today’s most acclaimed voices from around the imminent warming of our planet as exhibition “Here and Elsewhere” BIG, operates within the fields of architecture, individual and collective expres- at the Victor Pinchuk well as the dark sides of capitalism and democracy. at the New Museum. the fields of architecture and science fiction will discuss their urbanism, research, and development. BIG was 10:10–11 AM Foundation, Kiev, Ukraine. He has been invited to speak at multiple fiction sion, and in response, the act recently selected as the designer of a $335 million and science-fiction conferences as well as at the visions for life in the near-future metropolis. storm defense system to defend lower of protest is rapidly evolving; “Rethinking Capitalism” conference at the from future floods, as well as the new Google University of California, Santa Cruz, in 2011. Lawrence Lessig individuals, groups, and entire campus in Palo Alto, California, in association with communities once conveniently Thomas Heatherwick. Seeing Through the Noise invisible to decision-makers are self-organizing to make their voices heard. From Cairo to Istanbul and from to 1–2 PM 2–2:10 PM São Paulo, the sight of public squares inundated by a sea of Rosanne Micah White Mannahatta: Studies for an Opera protesters has become one of Haggerty Co-creator, Occupy Wall Suggested lunch location: the key images of our time. At President, Street, former Editor, about Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs the same time, an increasing Community Solutions Adbusters magazine, and ETH Zurich Future Garden and Pavilion, First Street Garden Founder, Boutique Activist number of people—the poor, A recipient of a MacArthur Enter at the corner of East Houston Street and 2nd Avenue Directed by Joshua Frankel, composed by Judd Greenstein, “Genius Grant,” Rosanne Consultancy libretto by Tracy K. Smith, choreography by Will Rawls the homeless, the elderly, the Haggerty is President and Food and drinks by Café Select (11 a.m.–10 p.m.) mentally ill, and undocumented CEO of Community Solutions, a Driven by the belief that social 9 min nonprofit organization working change movements like Occupy immigrants, to name just a to strengthen communities are too focused on urban environ- few groups—are disappearing and end homelessness. In 1990, ments, Micah White moved to she founded Common Ground Nehalem, Oregon. He sees rural Director of Special Projects and Community and reopened the 2:10-2:20 PM from view. How do the disen- towns as “clean slate[s] for buil- Curator at Large, New Museum legendary Times Square Hotel ding social change,” where inha- Richard Flood franchised find representation as a place for homeless and bitants are still recovering from in the city today? Is there a low-income residents, thereby the economic and environmental reducing homelessness by 87 impacts of the capitalist system Lawrence Lessig cartography to guide those who percent in the twenty-block that Occupy fought against. His vicinity surrounding it. In 2012, new for-profit firm, Boutique Director, Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University have wandered or been driven Haggerty was awarded the Activist Consultancy, specializes Jane Jacobs Medal for New in “impossible campaigns.” White Lawrence Lessig is a proponent of reduced legal restrictions on copyright, trademark, from the center? This panel will Ideas and Activism. argues that to be a full-time acti- and the radio frequency spectrum, particularly in technology applications. In May analyze the social and political vist, you must have an income. 2014, he launched a crowdfunded political action committee, which he termed Mayday Policy and The Invisible City PAC, with the purpose of electing candidates to Congress who would pass campaign crises triggered by new techno- finance reform. Lessig is a founding board member of Creative Commons and Foun- der of Rootstrikers. logies, the shifts in the balance As more and more people flock toward of power within society they are 2:20–3 PM urban areas, the size and complexity In the information age, we are increasingly dependent bringing about, and the role of of cities is growing exponentially. As a on global-network infrastructures that are as invisible art in defining a new paradigm consequence, the designers shaping the as they are vast. These networks dictate the dynamics of social justice. cities of the future must engage with an increasingly challenging of decision-making and the shape of power structures, set of hypothetical conditions—critical scenarios that remain Rohit Aggarwala Connie Hedegaard from government records and trading platforms to invisible in the day-to-day lives of today’s inhabitants. In light Professor of Professional Practice, School Chair, KR Foundation, and Chair, OECD the seemingly more “democratic” web and social of the author of Chicago’s seminal modern masterplan Daniel of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Round Table for Sustainability Columbia University media. How, as citizens, do we relate to the networks, Burnham’s invective to “make no little plans,” how will urbanists, In 1984, at the age of twenty-three, Connie Jonathan Bowles (moderator) Rohit Aggarwala works on cities, transportation, Hedegaard became Denmark’s youngest ever infrastructures, and technologies that underpin architects, and activists think about creating a habitat that and the environment from the perspectives of a Member of Parliament when she was elected as urban life today? What role, if any, do they play in Executive Director, Center for an Urban Future anticipates drastic future change, overcrowding, and climate former public official, a policy expert, and a historian. a member of the Conservative People’s Party. In In addition to his teaching and research at 1989, Hedegaard became First Spokesperson for promoting justice and accountability, thereby sha- Since 2002, Jonathan Bowles has been Executive Director of the change? What are the guiding principles in an architecture that Columbia’s School of International and Public the Conservative People’s Party, but she chose to Center for an Urban Future, a Manhattan-based think tank dedicated is preventative? This discussion will analyze the extraordinary Affairs, he currently serves as Special Advisor to leave politics for journalism in 1990. In 2004, she ping the future of society? How can art and culture to independent research about key policy issues facing New York City the Chair of the C40 Cities Climate Leadership was appointed as Danish Minister for the Environ- encourage awareness of the centrality of data in and other cities. Under Bowles’s direction, the Center authored an challenges of designing for unpredictable conditions, accelerated Group and leads environmental programs for ment and, in 2007, was placed in charge of setting acclaimed study about the significant impact immigrant entrepreneurs Bloomberg Philanthropies. He is also Co-chair of up the Danish Ministry of Climate and Energy, for twenty-first-century life? are having on cities’ economies, a study about New York City’s inno- change, and the new opportunities that arise when one takes the Fourth Regional Plan of the Regional Plan which one of the main tasks was to prepare the UN vation economy, as well as a report about how to retain and grow New radical change into account. Association of New York City. Climate Conference in Copenhagen in December York City’s middle class. 2009. She was appointed as the European Union’s first Commissioner for Climate Action in February 2010.

Conference 4 Thursday May 28 @IDEASCITY #IDEASCITY 5 IDEAS-CITY.ORG 5:45–6 PM Full Disclosure and 2008, A Year of Edits the Morality of Information OpenStreetMap 4:30–4:35 PM 1:30 min (looped) 6–6:15 PM 10–11 AM Keynote Address: Everything we do, from messaging Stainless, 42 Street, 2013 Seeing Through the Noise 3–4:30 PM our friends to streaming music to Adam Magyar, 10:49 min using public transport, generates Lawrence Lessig information. 90 percent of the data in the world today has been created in the last two years alone, 11 AM–12:15 PM and its sheer volume means that a vast proportion of our lives Maps for The Invisible City 6:15–6:20 PM Panel Discussion: exists as an invisibile online record of our identities, interests, and Hope and Unrest in The Invisible City affiliations. Yet even after recent revelations of mass collection on Joseph Grima Director, IDEAS CITY Jonathas de Andrade, Yto Barrada, the part of governments, we take surprisingly little interest in To make a map is an inherently politi- Rosanne Haggerty, Micah White, what happens to our data. This panel comprises internationally cal act. By documenting that which is 4:35–5:45 PM Jonathan Bowles (moderator) renowned artists, researchers, activists, and geographers whose unfamiliar and invisible, maps define work is organized around the practice of making visible, through our universe; they not only record the 12:15–1 PM art and activism, the critical importance of data and privacy to the organization of physical space, but also 6:20–7:30 PM perpetuation of democracy in the twenty-first century. shape its future form. Cartography is almost as ancient as huma- Make No Little Plans: nity itself, yet it is undergoing unprecedented change. Once drawn Finding The Invisible City A CONVERSATION IN TWO PARTS and managed by an elite few, maps are increasingly collaborative, Part 1. Toward a Plausible Utopia open, fluid, and freely accessible. What is cartography’s potential Bjarke Ingels and Kim Stanley Robinson as a form of activism in the twenty-first century? What will the map’s role be in shaping the city of the future? How can it guide us 2:20–3 PM through The Invisible City? Make No Little Plans: A CONVERSATION IN TWO PARTS Part 2. Policy and The Invisible City Rohit Aggarwala and Connie Hedegaard Trevor Paglen Christopher Soghoian Artist, Geographer, and Author Principal Technologist and Senior Policy 3–4:30 PM Trevor Paglen is credited with coining the term Analyst, ACLU’s Speech, Privacy, and “Experimental Geography” to describe practices Technology Project Panel Discussion: coupling experimental cultural production and Full Disclosure and the Morality art-making with ideas from critical human geogra- Between 2009 and 2010, Christopher Soghoian was phy about the production of space, materialism, and the first in-house technologist at the Federal Trade of Information praxis. Paglen’s visual work has been exhibited in Commission’s Division of Privacy and Identity museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Protection, where he worked on investigations of Trevor Paglen, Christopher Soghoian, Art, New York City, and Tate Modern, London. Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, and Netflix. Prior to Annise Parker Carmen Yulín Cruz joining the FTC, he co-created the Do Not Track Steve Coast William Rankin Jillian C. York, Gabriella Coleman privacy anti-tracking mechanism now adopted by all Houston, Texas San Juan, Puerto Rico (moderator) of the major web browsers. His PhD, completed at Founder, OpenStreetMap Founder, Radical Cartography Indiana University in 2012, focused on the role that Annise Parker has been elected Houston Mayor three Carmen Yulín Cruz, Mayor of San Juan since 2013, has third-party service providers play in facilitating law Steve Coast is a British entrepreneur. In 2004, he William Rankin is a historian and cartographer. His times, serving since 2010, and is one of only two women to been involved in the city’s politics since 1992, when enforcement surveillance of their customers. founded OpenStreetMap (OSM), a community-based mapping activity is focused on reimagining every- world-mapping project dubbed by the Guardian as day urban and territorial geographies as complex hold the city’s highest elected office. She has been named she served as an advisor to the then-mayor. She is a 4:35–5:45 PM “the Wikipedia of maps,” thanks to its millions of landscapes of statistics, law, and history. His maps by Time magazine as one of the hundred most influential long-standing member of the Popular Democratic Party Panel Discussion: contributors across the world. OSM has created a have appeared in publications such as Perspecta, people in the world. In addition to her duties as Mayor, (PPD) and is a leading figure in the Party’s Soberanista platform for individuals to map everything from ci- Harvard Design Magazine, and National Geographic, Parker is a member of President Obama’s Task Force wing, which supports Puerto Rican sovereignty while Maps for The Invisible City ties to hiking trails, footpaths, and local services, as and in exhibitions at Harvard University, Pratt on Climate Preparedness and Resilience and chairs the keeping such US ties as currency, common defense, well as slums in Sub-Saharan Africa that previously Institute, the Cartographic Biennial in Lausanne, Steve Coast, William Rankin, translated as blank spots on most online maps. Triennale di Milano, and the Toronto Images US Conference of Mayors Criminal and Social Justice and American citizenship. The Mayor is a champion of Festival. Rankin’s maps traveled for several years Committee. women’s rights and has, since 2005, served as President Laura Kurgan (moderator) with the Independent Curators International’s of the Popular Women Organization; she has also served “Experimental Geographies” exhibition. He teaches as the PPD Speaker for the Commission of Women’s at , where he is Assistant Professor Affairs. One of her prime initiatives has been to incen- of History of Science. 6:20–7:30 PM tivize the municipal economy, with the revitalization of the Rio Piedras neighborhood serving as a paradigm. Mayoral Conversation: Laura Kurgan (moderator) Finding The Invisible City Jillian C. York Gabriella Coleman Associate Professor of Architecture, Annise Parker, Carmen Yulín Cruz, Director for International Freedom (moderator) Columbia University Graduate School of Kurt Andersen (moderator) of Expression, Electronic Frontier Architecture, Planning and Preservation Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Kurt Andersen (moderator) Foundation Literacy, Art History and Communication Laura Kurgan is Director of the Spatial Informa- tion Design Lab (SIDL) and Associate Professor Jillian C. York’s work focuses on free expression, Host of the Peabody Award–winning Studio 360, Studies Department, McGill University of Architecture at Columbia University’s Graduate particularly in the Arab world. She has written for a coproduction of Public Radio International and School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. a variety of publications, including Al Jazeera, Trained as an anthropologist, Gabriella Coleman WNYC, Kurt Andersen is also Cofounder and Her work explores issues ranging from digital the Atlantic, the Guardian, Foreign Policy, teaches, conducts research, and writes on computer location technologies and the ethics and politics of Editor of Spy magazine. He is also the author of two and CNN. York recently contributed a chapter to hackers. Her work examines the ethics of online mapping, to new structures of participation in de- novels, Heyday and Turn of the Century. the volume Beyond WikiLeaks: Implications for collaboration and institutions as well as the role sign and the visualization of urban and global data. the Future of Communications, Journalism and of the law and digital media in sustaining various Her work has appeared at the Venice Architecture Society (2013). forms of political activism. Her new book, Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Biennale; the Whitney Altria, New York City; Mu- Anonymous, published by Verso, has been named seu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona; the Center one of Kirkus Reviews’ Best Books of 2014. for Art and Media Karlsruhe (ZKM), Germany; and the Museum of Modern Art, New York City.

Conference 6 Thursday May 28 @IDEASCITY #IDEASCITY 7 IDEAS-CITY.ORG Events May 29, 2015 235 Bowery (at Prince Street) 231 Bowery (at Prince Street) IDEAS CITY: Detroit Workshops EMA Workshop Session By invitation only and Panel Performance In preparation for IDEAS CITY: Detroit, which A performance Discussions 8–10 PM 12–3 PM will take place in the fall of 2015, IDEAS CITY by experimental convenes a by-invitation-only workshop to be Workshops rock musician 10 AM–6 PM led by Detroit cultural activists and urban en- and panels EMA will engage trepreneurs. Participants will include Halima Cassells, Vice President, will take place the audience through surreptitious Oakland Avenue Artist Coalition; Piper Carter, educator and founding throughout portrait sketches writ large in member, Detroit Digital Justice Coalition; Khalil Mogassabi, Head of the day, with topics ranging from an immersive projection environ- Urban Design, City of Detroit; Pashon Murray, CEO, Detroit Dirt; and “Surveillant Anxiety” to “Data ment. RSVP is requested. Guests Jerry Paffendorf, Founder, Loveland Technologies. & Social Justice” to “Pipelines to will be admitted on a first-come, Tech Empowerment” to “How to first-served basis, as capacity PGP.” RSVP is requested. Guests allows. will be admitted on a first-come, first-served basis, as capacity allows.

On the Festival’s second day, the morning’s keynote speech will lead into an afternoon of workshops and an evening of screenings, rapid-fire pitches, and Screening of The Dent performative actions. The invisible undercurrents of urban life will come alive by Basim Magdy throughout the and Little Italy as IDEAS CITY takes over 19:02 min (looped) a basilica and a former gym, ending just before the break of dawn. Introduction by Lauren Cornell Free and open to the public. Seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis. Entrance on between Prince and East Houston Streets A screening of the lush and evocative experi- 9 PM–12 AM mental film The Dent by Basim Magdy, currently Municipal Art Society featured in the 2015 New Museum Triennial: and Architizer “Surround Audience.”

7 East 7th Street (between 3rd and 4th Avenues) Pitching the City Tickets are $25 and may be purchased at ideas-city.org Free and open to the public. Registration required: MAS.org/PitchingTheCity Livestreaming: This event will be livestreamed Seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis. on the IDEAS CITY website: ideas-city.org Vote for the next best design idea at this 7–8:30 PM Welcome and Introduction to the Keynote Speaker by (Doors open at 6:30 PM) high-energy pitch event showcasing the newest city-building projects presented by an Lisa Phillips, Toby Devan Lewis Director, New Museum array of urban entrepreneurs and innovators.

IDEAS CITY Keynote After a months-long open call and selection process, five urban entre- preneurs will present their ideas to improve the contemporary city at the biennial Pitching the City competition. These finalists will present The Hon. Julián Castro their visions to an expert panel that will include Majora Carter, urban U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development revitalization strategist; Shohei Shigematsu, Principal at OMA; and Scott Anderson, Cofounder of the design and technology company As three-term mayor of San Antonio, Texas, Control Group. The panel will offer each project-team advice on how 10–11 AM these ideas may be realized, and the event will culminate with a live Basim Magdy, The Dent, 2014 (still). Super 16mm film transferred to full HD video; 19:02 min. Julián Castro was known for innovative Commissioned by the Abraaj Group Art prize 2014. Courtesy the artist and Gypsum Gallery, Cairo governance. His “Decade of Downtown” audience poll to determine a winner. In 2013, Pitching the City cap- tured our imaginations with projects including + Pool and New Lab. program campaigned for new investments

in San Antonio’s city center and older communities and brought This year’s finalists include the Miami Underline (Meg Daly, Founder, in $350 million of private sector money, generating more than Friends of the Underline, and Hamish Smyth, Designer, Pentagram), 2,400 housing units. In 2010, Castro was enrolled in the World Open Lobby (Lindsey May, Creator), East River Skyway (Daniel Economic Forum’s list of Young Global Leaders and named by Levy, President and Founder), Melbourne Docklands Surf Park Time magazine as one of its “40 under 40” notable leaders in (Damian Rogers, Creator), and NYC Real Estate Investment American politics. At the 2012 Democratic National Convention, Cooperative (Interim Steering Committee and Facilitation Team: he became the first Latino to deliver a keynote. Castro took Mark Scott, duendenatural; Paula Z. Segal, 596 Acres; and Caroline office as the sixteenth Secretary of the U.S. Department of Woolard, NYCTBD and OurGoods). Housing and Urban Development on July 28, 2014.

Events 8 Friday May 29 @IDEASCITY #IDEASCITY 9 IDEAS-CITY.ORG 7:55–8:10 PM 10–10:30 PM 11–11:30 PM Projections during intermissions provided by: Deflation Performance ACT 6. ACT 8. Daniel Lima, Jace Clayton, aka ARTPORT_making waves of Nomadic Place by COOL STORIES FOR WHEN THE PLANET GETS HOT, IV 268 Mulberry Street Jordi Enrich Jorba Featuring Eugênio DJ/Rupture, and COOL STORIES IV is the fourth edition by (between East Houston and Prince Streets) ARTPORT_making waves of short art videos and Lima, Felipe Teixeira, Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts animations addressing climate change. This edition BattleFest dancer Lil G at BattleFest 30. Photo: Epic Major and Élida Lima The Last Dance will focus on food production and consumption. This collaborative performance by Jace 9–9:25 PM Harlem: Cultural Capital Clayton, aka DJ/Rupture, and Sharifa 7:30 PM–3 AM Presented by Invisíveis Produções Rhodes-Pitts, author of Harlem is Nowhere, ACT 4. Daniel Lima will present an audiovisual will incorporate music, text, and dance in A Performative experience set to a live score and featuring in- tribute to the recently torn-down Harlem BattleFest terviews with residents from cities across the Renaissance Ballroom. world threatened by displacement. Supported Conference in Nine The European Balloon Festival in Igualada, Spain, 2014. Photo: Marc Vila Curated by Kareem Baptiste by Sesc São Paulo. 11:30 PM–12 AM Acts The home of the most exciting Extreme 8:10–8:40 PM Street Dancing competitions around the Tickets are $20 and may be purchased at ideas-city.org. Guests are welcome to come and go at any time. Tickets nation, BattleFest will bring amazing Intermission and seating are available on a first-come, first-served one-on-one dance battles to IDEAS CITY. basis, as capacity allows.Valid photo I.D. required. ACT 2. A Performative Conference in Nine Acts 9:25–9:40 PM will take issues discussed in the auditorium United States 12–3 AM the previous day onto the stage with spoken Katja Loher, Last Supper?, 2013 word, dance battles, hot-air balloon perfor- Department of Arts Intermission mances, and immersive video and sound ins- Saída De Emergência. Performance: Havana, 2012. Photo: Élida Lima ACT 9. tallations. Start times are approximate. There and Culture Asians in New York will be three intermissions. Ursula Scherrer People’s State of the Union: (Lorin Roser and Nina Kuo) 10:30–10:45 PM afloat “2015 Poetic Address to the Nation” CorbuRuption In an immersive performance of floating CorbuRuption will use I Ching–inspired animations 7:30–7:50 PM Inspired by stories shared at hundreds Intermission sounds and images, the visible will become and 3-D simulation generatrices to recompose past of People’s State of the Union events invisible, and the invisible will become visible. architectural styles of New York City, bringing our nationwide, poets will perform the “2015 The audience is invited to sit, lie down, come, attention to the ways architectural shifts mirror the ACT 1. physical transitions within our city. Poetic Address to the Nation.” and go. Supported by the Swiss Arts Council Jordi Enrich Jorba Pro Helvetia. 8:40–9 PM Nomadic Place From the bowels of an inoperative hot-air balloon, artist Jordi Enrich Jorba will ACT 3. 9:40–10 PM summon a work of temporary architecture. Penny Arcade ACT 5. 7:50–7:55 PM Longing Lasts Longer Joshua Frankel Photo: Nina Kuo Welcome by Master Plan of the City Plan of the City is an animated film about the 10:45–11 PM Danny Hoch, Taking Over of Ceremonies architecture of New York City blasting off Photo: Ursula Scherrer Bob Holman, Poet and Proprietor, into outer space and resettling on Mars. Bowery Poetry Club ACT 7. Danny Hoch Excerpt from Taking Over Taking on the character of a taxi dispatcher, Penny Arcade. Photo: Steven Menendez Danny Hoch will perform an excerpt from Penny Arcade’s Longing Lasts Longer is his heartbreaking and raucously funny play a passionate rumination on love, longing, and about gentrification and feelings of displace- the loss of New York’s cultural identity, set to ment in New York. a rollicking live-mixed soundscape.

Events 10 Friday May 29 @IDEASCITY #IDEASCITY 11 IDEAS-CITY.ORG ecoartspace Food Court 1 Information and Press Check-In 2 ArtHome 3 Solar One Street Program May 30, 2015, 12–6 PM First 4 Institute for Public Architecture Waste Stations F Subway Restrooms 5 Fourth Arts Block (FABnyc) Street 6 Downtown Art / LES History Month 7 Center for Urban Pedagogy Bike Valet Medical Tent Foamspace 8–14 Family and PlayLab Garden 8 Genspace NYC, Inc 9 Groundswell ETH Zurich 10 City Atlas Future Garden 11 French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF) (12–3 p.m.)

2nd Avenue and Pavilion 11 + POOL (3–6 p.m.) 12 Fixers Collective 13 Anne Apparu-Hall, Ted Hall, East Houston Street and Friends F 14 Public Interactives Research Team (the New School) and Playable Media Lab (Sarah Lawrence College) 44 Rhizome at 15 Second Media University Settlement 43 16 Med44–Media Architecture at the Houston Street Center 17 Changing Environments 45 18 Emily Johnson/Catalyst 273 Bowery 19 The Bowery Mission 46 48 20 The Living Theatre 47 Naturally Occurring Cultural Districts 46 21 New York (NOCD-NY) 22 Loisaida, Inc. 49 52 23 Bowery Arts + Science, CityLore, 50 51 53 Endangered Language Alliance, 1 and the U.S. Department of Arts and Culture 2 54 24 miLES 25 The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of the Cooper Union 3 26 The Uni Project 4 27 The Sketchbook Project Around the Bowery 28 Visual AIDS 5 29 Transportation Alternatives 6 30–39 Hester Street Fair 40 Center for Genomic Gastronomy with Edible Geography, Presented by the 7 55 56 8 Finnish Cultural Institute in New York One hundred cultural and community groups will transform the streetscape 57 58 41 Marjetica Potrč and Design for 9 10 the Living World 42 Lower East Side Ecology Center 11 around the Bowery neighborhood into a temporary city of ideas, redefining 12 (E-waste) 13 43 New Museum Education Department 14 44 New York City Department of public space through participatory programming and unexpected structures 59 Design and Construction 45 Circus for Construction with 60 Austin+Mergold for gathering, several of which will be constructed from normally invisible 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 46 The Drawing Center Meet here 47 Jordi Enrich Jorba commercial materials. These programs are free and open to the public, and 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 for tours 48 Technoculture, Art and Games Resource Center (TAG) with Gina Haraszti and Pierson Browne all ages are welcome! 49 Storefront for Art and Architecture

Storefront for Art and Architecture Bowery 50 15 68 and Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural 42 and Educational Center 16 69 with Jonah Bokaer 11 + POOL 13 Anne Apparu-Hall,

Foamspace 51 Arte Institute and Albanian Institute New York The World’s First Water- Ted Hall, and Friends 52 The Lodge Gallery 53 Art in Odd Places Filtrating, Floating Pool Spider Web 54 The New York City Urban Debate League + POOL is a floating pool in the inner Artists Anne Apparu-Hall and Ted Hall, 55 Two Bridges Neighborhood Council harbor of the New York City waterfront, along with a group of friends, will present 42 56 Abrons Arts Center (12–3 p.m.) designed to filter the very river in which it New Museum Materials for the Arts (3–6 p.m.) a “spider web” of talks, demonstrations, 56 floats, cleaning more than 600,000 gallons of Prince 235 Bowery 57 Come Out & Play collectives, and workshops. 58 The Movement Creative water that enters through its walls every 17 59 596 Acres with Deborah Berke single day. No chemicals or additives are Partners 18 used—just natural river water. (3–6 p.m.) NEW INC and Deep Lab 60 The Greenpoint Bioremediation 53 Art in Odd Places Project (gBP) 231 Bowery 61 NYC Parks RECALL 42 62 Lower East Side Ecology Center 59 The Bowery Mission and NYC Compost Project 596 Acres with 19 Ten visual and performance art interven- 227 Bowery 63 Manny Cantor Center and Laura Nova 64 MTWTF Deborah Berke Partners tions, selected from AiOP’s ten years of 65 Municipal Art Society of New York Foamspace public art programming, will be performed 2 20 66 The Lower Eastside Girls Club What do we do with our land? throughout the Festival area. 21 67 Cooper Square Committee Chrystie Street 67 Davidson Rafailidis Self-guided audio tours and annotated Freeman Alley 67 Lower East Side Business maps of the Bowery and the Lower East Improvement District Side will make visible sites of past, present, 51 Muséum National d’Histoire Arte Institute and 67 and future opportunities for neighbors to 2 ArtHome Wojciech Gilewicz, Naturelle de Paris Albanian Institute New York 67 New York City Housing Authority shape the city together. Presented in Collaboration 67 NYU ITP, NYU CUSP, MIT DUSP ArtBuilt Mobile Studios 67 Woodward Gallery and Surface Markers and I will Moveable work spaces can house artists, with Artists Alliance Inc.

Gotham SideWalks Bowery 68 The Institute for Aesthletics play your soul social service agencies, and vendors. Learn 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 56 Abrons Arts Center RRRC: Reduce, Reuse, 69 Chinatown YMCA Visual artist Joana Ricou will take “selfies” how they support our disappearing cultural Recycle, Compost The City of the Lost and Found of visitors. Pianist Renato Diz and guitarist sector by making small-scale enterprise Wojciech Gilewicz, presented in visible and mobile. Taulant Mehmeti will improvise melodies During the course of the IDEAS CITY collaboration with Artists Alliance Inc Use recycled materials to recreate an inspired by the photographs. Festival, Polish-American artist Wojciech object, a feeling, or an idea you have lost. Gilewicz will quietly collect, sort, and Chart its travels on a New York City map. recycle discarded waste produced by (12–3 p.m.) visitors to the event.

Street Program 12 Saturday May 30 @IDEASCITY #IDEASCITY 13 IDEAS-CITY.ORG 67 Cooper Square Committee 18 Emily Johnson/Catalyst 60 The Greenpoint 47 56 Materials for the Arts Tenants’ Rights Walking Tour: Conjuring Future Joy Bioremediation Project Make Visible the Music: An Exploration of Current Conjuring Future Joy is a collective ima- (gBP) Giant Xylophones with Housing Issues on the Lower gining of a joyful, shared future. Inspired Materials for the Arts by wild imaginings, our ideas become Free Soil Testing East Side Materials for the Arts invites everyone to actions, thus manifesting true change for Bring your soil! The gBP with the Urban collaborate in the creation of giant xylophones This tour is designed to both highlight our communities. Soils Institute at Brooklyn College will made of reused materials, making visible the tenant-organizing victories and the 69 perform on-site soil testing. Act to alleviate invisible resources of New York City. present-day struggles tenants face on the the anxiety of the unknown properties of (3–6 p.m.) Lower East Side. The tour will be leaving urban soils. 8 – 14 from the Shared Tour Hub in Sara D. Family and PlayLab Roosevelt Park at 1 p.m. “The Worms” 16 9 Med44–Media Corroboree “The Worms” tents can be combined in an Groundswell “The Giant” with infinite number of different configurations, Architecture endangered-language 23 25 Scaffold Up! Making The activist Bob Holman The Irwin S. Chanin generating important gathering spots and School of Architecture of orientation points at public events. Invisible City Visible Urban Speaker Join Groundswell, New York City’s leading This portable urban art installation will 23 Bowery Arts + Science, 69 Chinatown YMCA the Cooper Union community public art organization, to dis- allow people to broadcast their voices in public space by calling a telephone number CityLore, Endangered Fitness Demos Building a Model of Education 12 Fixers Collective cover the symbols and public artworks that make visible our “invisible cities.” A human castle rises during the European Balloon Festival in Igualada, Spain, 2014. Photo: Marc Vila from their mobile phones. Language Alliance, and Our fitness staff will demonstrate exercises A student-built model of the Cooper Union Fixing Session the U.S. Department of and workout ideas to keep people from Foundation Building journeyed through being invisible. New York City to engage with the public Bring your broken things to our table and 47 Jordi Enrich Jorba 42 Lower East Side Arts and Culture and key civic monuments. we will examine, diagnose, and (hopefully) 30 – 39 Hester Street Fair 24 miLES repair that broken item! Nomadic Place Ecology Center Ministry of Endangered Language IDEAS CITY Food Court Pop-up Caravan 45 Artist Jordi Enrich Jorba repurposes ino- Circus for Construction E-waste Recycling Collection A pop-up caravan will publicly showcase With a projected film, speakers of endange- 67 Hester Street Fair will bring together perative hot-air balloons to create colorful, Davidson Rafailidis and Upcycle Workshop the work in progress of usually invisible red languages, and an interactive booth, we with Austin+Mergold 5 Fourth Arts Block favorite local restaurants, along with exci- temporary structures that house commu- and hidden workplaces. Pop-up Caravan will create an exciting tribute and call to “MirrorMirror” ting new food vendors, for a mini artisanal nity events, performances, and workshops. The Lower East Side Ecology Center will is a collaboration by miLES, Architecture action for linguistic diversity. The Wall Inside (FABnyc) food festival. collect unwanted electronics (computers Winner of the 2013 IDEAS CITY Street Commons, and curated participants. and TVs, and everything that plugs into Circus for Construction is a traveling event Architecture Prize, “MirrorMirror” reflects Invisible Memory, Movement, them) and offer an upcycle workshop with space situated on the back of a truck for the cityscape and human activity on the & Sound 20 The Living Theatre collected materials. 19 The Bowery Mission exhibiting and experiencing works of art ground, offering a dynamic, intensified 68 The Institute for and architecture. view of street life. Tours for all projects Share your Lower East Side stories No Place to Hide 58 The Movement Creative 227 Bowery Tours meet here. and explore our neighborhood through Aesthletics Typewritten Tales and a neighborhood No Place to Hide is an experimental and Parkour and the Pop-up The Bowery Mission will open its doors to 62 Lower East Side Sound Walk. Sound Walks will be leaving Mayan Ball Game Tournament participatory theater experience about the public for tours of its historic building Playground from FABnyc’s tent at 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. This tournament will mash the ancient hiding and the human condition in which Ecology Center at 227 Bowery. Tours will occur every half 6 What if your playground grew up with Downtown Art / Mesoamerican sport with New York City we all find ourselves. hour from 12 p.m. to 6 p.m. you? Pop-up is an interactive, all-ages street basketball, pitting cultural institu- Save the Swales LES History Month parkour playground. Come out and play! tions against each other to crown the 2015 11 Lower East Side Ecology Center, French Institute Mayan Ball Game champ. LES STORIES 52 The Lodge Gallery Loomstate, and Open Source Landscape 40 Center for Genomic Alliance Française (FIAF) will expose the public to the invisible LES STORIES will celebrate Lower East The Positivity Scrolls green infrastructure that is all around us. 64 MTWTF Gastronomy with Edible Side History by chalking the neighbo- Lights in French and Geography, Presented rhood’s past on its pavement; this version American Cities This project, led by Thailand-born, New WAPR: Astor Place Radio will include call-in recordings of music and York City–based artist Pairoj Pichetmetakul, by the Finnish Cultural readings of text. The French Institute Alliance Française will utilize socially inviting plein air portrait 66 The Lower Eastside This self-guided audio tour will remateri- The Circus for Construction is a mobile gallery that travels to alize the wildly diverse stories that shape and generates sites of discourse in unexpected locations (FIAF) will present activities en français painting sessions to create temporary Institute in New York for kids about how lights make a city outdoor art spaces that are free for open Girls Club New York City’s Astor Place. visible or invisible, focusing on French and participation. Smog Tasting 46 Destination: Avenue D The Drawing Center American cities. (12–3 p.m.) Smog Tasting uses egg foams to harvest air Lower Eastside Girls Club alumni will pro- 10 City Atlas Meditation Room: Horizon 65 Municipal Art Society pollution. We will serve smog meringues vide free walking tour maps and informa- 22 from different locations to allow urban Share Your City II The Drawing Center will present Balmori Loisaida, Inc. tion about art on Avenue D. of New York atmospheres to be tasted and compared. Associates’ Meditation Room: Horizon, a 8 Genspace NYC, Inc Our temporary-tattoo series will continue work that creates the sense of an expansive 4 Institute for Public Invisible Loisaida Walking Tour: Genspace Citizens Science at the IDEAS CITY Festival by showing horizon in the smallest of spaces. Loisaida, Inc. will present a performance Architecture 63 “On and Off the Bowery” what the city needs but doesn’t have. and the City and workshop tent highlighting the Manny Cantor Center 7 Center for Urban Pedagogy Tours will explore a short section of the Genspace, a citizen science biotech lab, and Total Reset invisible creative and social history of the and Laura Nova larger—and more accurate—downtown Bowery, highlighting the past, present, and Sewer in a Suitcase scientist Christine Marizzi from the DNA Explore the Institute for Public future of the storied thoroughfare that was 57 Come Out & Play Learning Center will offer a hands-on scene, making Loisaida, Inc. visible. Moving Stories Sewer in a Suitcase will demystify the Architecture’s proposals for public and one of New York City’s first streets. The bacteria-printing workshop, making hidden workings of New York City’s water below-market housing in New York, tours will be leaving at 12 p.m. and 2 p.m. Sesame Street Boxheads, ART New York City’s microbiome visible and infrastructure by following the journey created in response to Mayor de Blasio’s accessible. water takes beyond the drain. BOY SIN, and Sloth Chase “total reset” for housing. 67 Lower East Side Come Out & Play will present three games Business Improvement from their popular festival of street games, The Drawing Center presents Balmori Associates, which turns New York City into a giant Meditation Room: Horizon, 2015 District 17 Changing Environments playground. Lower East Side Public Art Soofa Tour featuring 100 Gates Powered by solar energy, the Soofa 1 ecoartspace This tour of public art in the neighborhood bench will collect valuable environmental will include intermittent stops into perti- data while giving urban dwellers a place to To What Measure? Designs for nent galleries. The tours will be leaving chat and charge up. Incremental Preparedness Join a senior citizen–led walking tour of the from the Shared Tour Hub in Sara D. Lower East Side. This immersive journey ecoartspace and Habitat for Artists will Roosevelt Park at 12:30 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. will combine physical movement with collaborate on a series of art and environ- memory to share personal stories of our mental workshops, displays, and discus- ever-changing neighborhood. ​The tours will sions on topics including renewable energy be leaving at 1:30, 2:30, and 4:30 p.m. and growing food alternatively.

Street Program 14 Saturday May 30 @IDEASCITY #IDEASCITY 15 IDEAS-CITY.ORG 44 New York City 61 NYC Parks 48 Technoculture, Art and Department of Design Trees Count! 2015 Games Resource Center and Construction NYC Parks will teach participants about (TAG) with Gina Haraszti the citywide street-tree census and engage and Pierson Browne Visually Impaired Way-finding participants in mapping street trees. Through Construction Zones MINDCRAFT The New York City Department of Design A hacked version of the famous game and Construction will present research and 67 NYU ITP, NYU CUSP, Minecraft will encourage the audience design strategies from the Cooper Union to think about questions surrounding undergraduate students at an exhibition MIT DUSP the creation and destruction of cities, on visually impaired way-finding through civilizations, and societies. construction zones. City Sensing Bike Tour Join a short, slow cycling tour of new downtown sensors, try wearing some of them, and see what your own data looks 67 New York City like! The tour will be leaving from the Housing Authority Shared Tour Hub in Sara D. Roosevelt Park at 5:15 p.m. Out in Public 26 The Uni, Sunnyside, Queens, July 26, 2014 Step out on a walking tour of public housing, including the nation’s first public 14 Public Interactives housing development tucked into the East Village and a full-service senior building. Research Team 26 The Uni Project 29 Transportation The tours will be leaving from the Shared (the New School) and Tour Hub in Sara D. Roosevelt Park at Alternatives The Uni Portable Public 12:30 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. Playable Media Lab Reading Room 68 15 Free Bike Valet (Sarah Lawrence College) Come sit, read, draw, and explore a curated Winner of Pigeon Beauty Pagent Transportation Alternatives advocates for collection of books and hands-on materials Champion Old Dutch Capuchine. 54 Let’s SEE the Trash! Photo: Layne Gardner The New York City more bike lanes, safer streets for pedes- at the Uni, a portable reading room for Urban Debate League This mobile augmented-reality app is trians, and affordable public transporta- public space. designed to raise awareness of garbage “Foamspace” tion. Our free bike valet service works like IDEAS CITY Youth and waste in the immediate area of the Winner of the 2015 IDEAS CITY Street Architecture a coat check...for your bike! Festival. Debate Tournament Prize, “Foamspace” is a mobile work of architecture 28 Visual AIDS We believe that every school should have a and a digital platform of financial tools that will allow Undetectability Mapping debate team and that every student should 27 Exercise 43 have access to the best debate education The Sketchbook Project 67 Muséum National New Museum members to propose and vote on the next iterations. opportunities. The Sketchbook Project We will coordinate an artist-led mapping d’Histoire Naturelle Education Department exercise for the public about the HIV Mobile Library de Paris Collecting Memories 50 serostatus “undetectable” while displaying The Sketchbook Project’s Mobile Library artist-created lenticular lightboxes and 62 NYC Compost Project A Pigeon’s Perspective Celebrate the New Museum’s history and will give public access to four thousand– distributing lenticular cards about undetec- inaugural 1977 exhibition “Memory” by Hosted by the Lower East plus original sketchbooks created by people tability. This walk will explain the presence of participating in a related interactive photo of all ages and backgrounds worldwide. pigeons on the Lower East Side scientifically, booth and other art activities. Side Ecology Center historically, and culturally. Their ubiquity Bin Build! 67 Woodward Gallery reveals as much about human ideology as it 43 does about bird behavior. The tours will be Help the NYC Compost Project build a 3 Solar One and Gotham SideWalks leaving from the Shared Tour Hub in Sara three-celled compost bin, and learn about D. Roosevelt Park at 1:30 p.m. and 4 p.m. the various composting options available in The Peril the Wind Sings to: Street/Art, Lower East Side: New York City to reduce your waste! Making Electricity Visible 55 An Interactive Community Solar One will present an exhibition of Art Walk 21 Naturally Occurring objects and activities to demonstrate how electricity works, from fruit-powered bat- This neighborhood art tour will bring Cultural Districts New teries to the Tesla coil. together the anonymous world of street York (NOCD-NY) art with the white-hot local gallery scene. Meet key art players. Expect the unex- Underground Justice: pected. The tour will be leaving from the Shared Tour Hub in Sara D. Roosevelt a Five Borough Perspective Park at 4 p.m. Through conversations and performances, NOCD-NY with El Puente will explore 41 Photo: Benoit Pailley how racial and spatial (in)visibility is being challenged by artists across the five 50 55 49 Storefront for Art Storefront for Art Two Bridges boroughs. and Architecture and Architecture and Neighborhood Council Plush the Clemente Soto Beyond the Grid and the The Invisible Lunch Discussions Plush is a mobile yet immersive space of Vélez Cultural and Cooper Lumen love and secrets, created by Maria Lynch Educational Center with What if the power didn’t go out during Artist Marjetica Potrč and her Design for the and Daniel Perlin, that will contain reactive Jonah Bokaer Hurricane Sandy? Experience an innova- Living World students at HFBK Hamburg will sounds embedded within its soft, dreamlike tive and resilient energy and communica- environment. Speechbuster Parade tions network designed to serve diverse invite incognito speakers to address affordable community needs. housing and food at a 100-foot-long table. The Speechbuster, a mobile table with indi- vidual pieces that create various configura- Photo: Design for the Living World, Gerichte auf Tischen [Meals on Tables], Regionale 12, St.Lambrecht, Austria. Photo courtesy Design for the Living World tions, will travel in a procession throughout the streets of the IDEAS CITY Festival.

Street Program 16 Saturday May 30 @IDEASCITY #IDEASCITY 17 IDEAS-CITY.ORG Special Projects May 28–30, 2015 Stay With Me ETH Zurich brings a cutting-edge artifact of the future to the Presented by Rhizome East Village: a pavilion created from waste materials. Recas- ting “trash” as a valuable asset, ETH Zurich Future Garden Sat. 12–6 PM The AIRBNB Pavilion will host a and Pavilion will redefine the notion of waste, acknowledging livestreamed salon in a rented apart- its value as a resource from which new cities can rise. Over the ment to discuss contemporary domes- First Street Garden, enter at the corner of East Houston Street and 2nd Avenue. course of three days, ETH Zurich Future Garden and Pavilion ticity, interior decoration, and housing will host events, workshops, and an exhibition outlining the rights in post-Airbnb New York City. Livestream and chat Check back for updates on programming, times, and information future metropolis. Food and drinks will be provided by Café about how to RSVP here: ethmeetsyou.org, #ETHMeetsYou will be available at rhizome.org. Livestream viewing sessions Exhibition and Café open Thursday May 28–Saturday May 30, 11 a.m.–10 p.m. Select. The project will be hosted by the New York City will be held at University Settlement at the Houston Street Free and open to the public. Department of Parks & Recreation and First Street Green. Center, 273 Bowery. Availability is limited. For information and reservations, please email [email protected]. AIRBNB Pavilion, Stay With Me, 2015. Digital image. Courtesy the artists

Sat. 1–1:40 PM Sat. 3:30–4:15 PM

TYTHEdesign Art in Odd Places: NEW INC and cyberfeminist research collective Deep Lab’s Hear the Unheard RECALL/11 Years weeklong residency will explore privacy, security, This interactive workshop will introduce Art in Odd Places was conceived in New surveillance, anonymity, and data aggregation, culminating community engagement techniques to the York City in 2005 to assert and exercise in a drone painting performance, network infrastructure public and offer tips on how to uncover the civil liberties and engagement through art voices in your community. in public space—without seeking permission. walking tours, and more. Supported by Microsoft Civic Innovation and Data & Society Research Institute. These

Sat. 2–2:30 PM Sat. 4:30–4:45 PM events are free and open to the public. Check back for updates on programming, times, and information about Y Gallery Photosynthesis Projects/ how to RSVP here: newinc.org/deep-lab Invisible Cities: On the Work of Karla Stingerstein Fri. 9–10 AM Sat. 12–6 PM Raquel Rabinovich and Monika with Mary Mattingly

ETH Zurich, miLES, Y Gallery Bravo Biotope In this conversation with critic Ann McCoy and PareUp Maurício Ianês: Expansion Karla Stingerstein will present Biotope, an and professor Carla Stellweg, artists eco-specific sculpture of flora for fauna that Workshops and Ingrid Burrington Wasted Food x Wasted Space: During the performance Expansion, artist Monika Bravo and Raquel Rabinovich supports wildlife habitats in Philadelphia will discuss their work and its relation to A Morning Dialogue Over Maurício Ianês will invite the public to deve- by stewarding damaged riparian zones. Panel Discussions Internet Infrastructure Walking Tour lop a communal practice of cultural, artistic, “invisible cities.” Biotope will be on view 12–6 p.m. Breakfast Workshops and and knowledge exchange. Fri. 10 AM–6 PM This walking These roundtable discussions will be led panels will take Sat.1 PM and 3 PM tour will teach by thought leaders on the causes of, Sat. 5:30–7:30 PM place throughout challenges to, and solutions for waste— Sat. 12–6 PM the day, with participants

from wasted food to wasted space and topics ranging from “Surveillant Anxiety” how to spot anything in between. A “rescued” break- ETH Zurich and AIA Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts to “Data & Social Justice” to “Pipelines fiber optic cables, cell towers, carrier hotels, fast will be served during the event. New York Chapter and other network infrastructure in cities. Registration recommended. Bookstore Project BLACK- to Tech Empowerment” to “How to PGP.” “In the future, there will be RSVP is requested. Guests will be admitted RSVP is requested. Guests will be admitted NUSS: Books + Other Relics on a first-come, first-served basis, as capacity no waste…” on a first-come, first-served basis, as Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts and Publication Studio capacity allows. allows. Hudson will set up an on-demand printing Dirk Hebel and Philippe Block of ETH station showcasing the hand-bound pamphlet Sat. 2:45–3:15 PM Zurich will join David Benjamin and Mark series “On the Blackness of BLACKNUSS.” Wasiuta of Columbia University’s Graduate ETH Zurich School of Architecture, Planning and Drone Painting Preservation in conversation. Together, EMA Performance Meet the Future they will consider how we can navigate A performance by Fri. 12–8 PM Sat. 12–12:40 PM design methodologies and ethical practice Performance Take a guided tour of ETH Zurich Fri. 8–10 PM in the quest for the future smart city. experimental rock Pavilion, meet its creators, and walk The drone painting Swiss Think Tank W.I.R.E., Asian American Arts Registration recommended. Thurs. 8–9 PM musician EMA will through an exhibit of twenty-five will be performed engage the audience ETH Zurich, and SAVIDA Centre and the building materials produced from waste. Registration recommended. by Deep Lab through surreptitious portrait sketches writ Social Innovation in the Data Age: Cultural Equity Group Founder and artist large in an immersive projection environment. Inventing a Truly Smart City of New York City Addie Wagenknecht, in collaboration with RSVP is requested. Guests will be admitted KATSU, NEW INC member Dan Moore, and on a first-come, first-served basis, as capacity Examples of telecommunications cable markings, New York City, 2014. How can digitalization contribute to social Hinterland Arts Photo: Ingrid Burrington innovation? Formulate your own ideas on Becky Stern of Adafruit. No RSVP required. allows. how to design a “truly smart city”—deve- Artists and Cultural Equity Group loping, building, and testing ideas in an members will come together to speak interdisciplinary and fast-paced prototyping about New York City’s cultural plan and process. Registration recommended. the increasingly important role of the art and culture of the city’s diverse neighbo- rhoods and communities.

@IDEASCITY #IDEASCITY 18 IDEAS-CITY.ORG Special Projects 19 Thurs.– Sat. May 28–30 Founder Founding Supporter

The grant from Goldman Sachs Gives is at the recommendation of David B. Heller & Hermine Riegerl Heller.

Executive Committee Lead Supporters

New Museum (Founder) The Architectural League of New York Bowery Poetry Club The Cooper Union The Drawing Center Storefront for Art and Architecture

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Additional support is provided by Hotel Partners We would like to acknowledge the Manhattan Borough President Gale A. Brewer, following companies and individuals New York City Department of Parks & for their support: Recreation, and TD Charitable Foundation. The James New York Volunteer support is made possible through The Bowery Hotel Anomaly, CitiView, Clemente Soto Goldman Sachs Community TeamWorks. Vélez Cultural and Educational Center, David Diamond, Empire Entertainment, FabCafe, First Street Green, Hess is More, Kettle, Microsoft, Neo Neo, Q+A Events and Production LLC, Rooftop Films, St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral, The They Co., Tiger Beer, Uber, Whole Foods Market

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