June 11-12, 2010
at KQED Studios
2601 Mariposa Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
Map and directions

"Thanks for your fantastic introduction and "Q&A management" at Friday's symposium. As someone whose career has been pretty data-centric from a marketing perspective, it's really exciting for me to see social applications of the stuff without the derision that's long accompanied being a 'data geek.' " - Symposium participant

SYMPOSIUM SCHEDULE
Friday, June 11
Sensing the City - Data Visualization and Urban Life

1:00 – 1:15
Registration/Introductions

1:15 – 1:45
Setting the Tenderloin Stage
Presenters:
Josette Melchor (Executive Director, GAFFTA),
Karl Robillard (Manager, Tenderloin Tech Lab)
Lee Stickles Beyond Boundaries

1:45 – 2:15
MIT's SENSEable City Laboratory Sensors/Uncensored: The great urban experiment

2:15 – 2:45
Stamen Design, ARUP, Movity.com, Tenderloin Tech Lab TenderVoice/TenderNoise: A Community Journalism and Acoustic Ecology Project

2:45 – 3:15
Jay Nath DataSF

3:15 – 3:30
Panel discussion moderated by Josette Melchor

3:30 – 3:45
Break

3:45 – 4:15
Artists Showcase
Robert Damphousse: Visualizing the invisible: Findings from wireless landscape
Julie Andreyev: Drifting the City: Participatory Engagement to Mobilize the Artists' Studio

4:00 – 4:15
Closing, review of upcoming events

4:15 – 5:15
Informal reception

7:00
CityCentered and MIT's SENSEable City Laboratory Opening Event at GAFFTA, 55 Taylor St.

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Saturday, June 12:
Location, Politics, and Community

9:00 – 10:00
Registration, coffee, tea, pastries

10:00 – 10:15
Welcome and Introductions

10:15 – 11:00
Keynote: Joel Slayton The Nature of Path/Minimal Dislocation

11:00 – 11:30
Tenderloin, Community and Daily Lives
Willa Seldon (CEO, Glide Foundation and Chair of the Board of Directors of KQED)
Erin Chen (Community Convener, Shih Yu-Lang Central YMCA)

Location as Political

11:30 – 12:30
Presentors:
Micha Cárdenas, Amy Sara Carroll, Ricardo Dominguez, Elle Mehrmand, Brett Stalbaum City DeCentered: The Transborder Immigrant Tool
Brooke Singer Locative Media is Local Knowledge
Paula Levine Transposing Spaces

12:30 – 1:00
Participatory break-out sessions with Brett Stalbaum, Brooke Singer, Paula Levine

1:00 – 2:30
Lunch on your own. Make a friend, grab a map of nearby restaurants, find food.

Location as Community

2:45 – 3:45
Presentors:
Leslie Rule Place-based Teaching and Learning
Steve Woollard A Locative Legacy
Catherine Herdlick Rediscovering Cities Through Play

3:45 – 4:15
Participatory break-out sessions with Leslie Rule, Steve Woollard, Catherine Herdlick

4:15 – 4:30
Closing comments