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Crowdsourced Placemaking:
The act of taking development traditionally performed by real estate conglomerates and outsourcing it to a large, undefined group of people in the form of an open call, to transform the places we find ourselves into the places where we live, as ‘places of the soul’ that uplift and help us connect to each other.Why?
Think of your district as a traditional encyclopedia, full of resources and places to see. However, hardly anyone uses a traditional encyclopedia anymore, they’re predominantly on the crowdsourced Wikipedia. Think of applying ‘wikinomics’ to your neighborhood - wow. (ref)
Food for thought:
In action (this project was just made permanent by the city):
Commentary and thoughts on this to come in future posts.
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Two things:
1) A lot of discussion about this site happens on facebook; so, I would recommend finding the site (link on the right sidebar) and me there.
2) I'm experimenting with non-sign-in commenting to encourage more discussion (the 2 minutes it takes to create a google/other account seems like too much trouble).
Being 'anonymous' is pretty lame, so at least make up a fake name to use.