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Solar One Presents: ActiFist! Using Interactive Design and Technology to Engage Citizens In Climate Change Advocacy.
| January 25, 2010 | ||
| 7:00 pm | to | 8:30 pm |
A Conversation with the ActiFist team: Adam Harvey, Richard Reiss (Artist as Citizen) and David Gibbs. Moderated by Chris Neidl, Solar One Advocacy Coordinator.
When: Monday January 25th, 7PM
Where: Solar One, East 23rd Street and the East River, next to the FDR and just south of the Gulf gas station. MAP.
About two weeks before the U.N. Climate Change Convention convened in Copenhagen, designer Adam Harvey had an idea. A graduate student at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program, Harvey was interested in experimenting with how technology could be used to engage New Yorkers in the what was happening at the convention by providing them with a direct, emotionally succinct way of expressing their support for a climate treaty. He struck on a simple but powerful design idea that would link New Yorkers and Copenhageners together in a real time interaction that would hook participants into the issue in a way that conventional clipboard advocacy, by itself, could simply not accomplish.
From this the ActiFist project was rapidly born and ultimately realized three weeks later with the logistical and technical support of Artist as Citizen, Solar One and designer David Gibbs. The video posted above demonstrates how the project worked, and this Huffington Post article provides a concise overview.
ActiFist was a small experiment that explored how technology could promote engagement and interaction around an important issue. Now the development team is considering how the concept could be expanded and deployed in a different form and context to connect people at different points around in dialogue about climate change. In this discussion, ActiFist team members will give a technical overview of the Copenhagen project, share anecdotes of Copenhagen experience, discuss their thoughts on the role of interactive technology in activism in general, and brainstorm out loud (with audience help) about the future of the project.
This is a FREE event!
Contact/RSVP (required): neidl@solar1.org
