What is your primary goal for SOCAP11?

seeking partnership

Tags

Community, Design, Education, Environment, Local Solutions, social innovation

In which regions do you either invest in, work in or have interest working in?

North America

 

A cheerleader of possibility, Alex Gilliam is the founder of Public Workshop, an organization that redefines the way youth and communities participate as citizens and leaders in the design of their neighborhoods and cities. Alex fundamentally believes that great design, empowerment, innovation, and having fun are not mutually exclusive. He creates inspiring curricula, transformative youth design leadership programs, innovative participatory community design tools, engaging events and thoughtful strategies that help people rethink possibility. Alex has worked with numerous organizations, museums, universities, architecture firms and city agencies including the Charter High School For Architecture and Design in Philadelphia, Rural Studio, Hester Street Collaborative, Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, University of Pennsylvania, University of Texas, Chicago Architecture Foundation, Landon Bone Baker Architects, Open House New York and the City of Austin, Texas. In addition, Alex is a national expert on K-12 design education with an emphasis service learning and was the 2010 Field Fellow at the National Building Museum in Washington, DC. Alex is a Senior Lecturer in the Design Department at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia where he is helping develop the University’s social entrepreneurship program. His work has been featured on NPR’s Studio 360 and in magazines such as Metropolis, ID and the Architect’s Newspaper as well as showcased on various company websites including Kaboom!, Core 77, Yahoo and NBC’s TODAY.

Alex’s recent work includes creating a green design leadership program in the Chicago that trains young people to gather the environmental data and collect the stories that substantiate design changes in their neighborhoods; developing unique design-build place-making events to better engage youth and community in a master planning process in Austin, TX; designing a NEA funded youth community design leadership program for middle schools in the Bronx; leading a #teendesignheroes camp in rural Wisconsin for Chicago Public School students; and creating a full scale building system that allows young people to prototype their own playgrounds in under-used public spaces.

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On The Web

Schedule

(5 total)

I'm speaking at:

Alex Gilliam
Thu Sep-08, 10:45 AM PDT- 11:30 AM PDT
Design Lab Office Hours
Alex Gilliam
Alex .. Adam, Veronika, Jocelyn
Fri Sep-09, 12:00 PM PDT- 1:00 PM PDT
Prototyping: It's Not Just for Products
Alex Gilliam, Adam Dole, Veronika Scott

I'm attending:

Yves Behar
Fri Sep-09, 1:00 PM PDT- 1:45 PM PDT
Design Lab Office Hours
Yves Behar
Eve .. Damien, Yves, Krista
Fri Sep-09, 2:00 PM PDT- 3:00 PM PDT
Launching and Iterating: Learning From the Market
Eve Blossom, Damien Newman, Yves Behar
Kevin .. William, Bonnie, Tracy
Fri Sep-09, 3:10 PM PDT- 4:00 PM PDT
Evening Plenary
Kevin Jones, Matt Bannick, Jed Emerson

Conversations

Alex Gilliam
Calendar
Sep 8
Design Lab Office Hours: Office hours today.
"Good morning everyone.  I look forward to meeting you today and hearing about the great work you are doing. My office hours will be held in the Hub Pop-Up at the center of the Festival Pavillion. We will start off as a small group session and then if there is a need to break into smaller groups or schedule individual meetings, we'll do it. It may be a bit hard to find me so her..."

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