“Rather than moving fast and breaking things, as Mark Zuckerberg described his approach to building Facebook, we came to recognize the value of moving slowly and knitting things together. ” This concluding essay from The Stacks is from our very own Deena Chalabi, former curator of Public Knowledge. Explore the beginnings of Public Knowledge, the complexities of the artist projects, and the overarching goals of our two year project.
6 posts with the tag "public space"
Designing with Communities in Mind
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By Public Knowledge
How do you approach the design of a space or process intended for a specific community? Shalini Agrawal has many…
Local Codes: Forms of Spatial Knowledge
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By Shannon Mattern
The past year was full of revelations; we learned, as many have long suspected, that criminal risk assessment and online…
Living in the Archives
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By Jenny Odell
In the spring of 2018 I became the first artist-in-residence at the San Francisco Planning Department. I was given a…
Reimagining the City
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By Public Knowledge
What can our urban landscape reveal about San Francisco? In Reimagining the City, speakers looked at different approaches to Bay…
Reassembling the Public
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By Sophia Fish
Shannon Jackson is the Associate Vice Chancellor for the arts and design at University of California, Berkeley, and a Public…