Iconathon-ing
Sketching Ideas for "Local Food" icons at Food & Nutrition Iconathon in Los Angeles.
Who am I?
- Experience Designer
- Advocate
- Leader
- Community Organizer
- Thinker
What I'm Doing
- Building up a distributed ecosystem of civic innovation.
- Integrating communities. Especially arts, museums, food, open source communities and local governments.
Background
- Trained as a Change Agent in my year long Code for America fellowship.
- Expert Drupaller (5 years) & Experienced Web Developer (15 years)
- Developing inquiry based learning experiences
- Opening civic data & communicating open schemas for open government
- Information architecture
- Museum exhibit development in partnership with evaluations and user research
- Open source development with large non-profits
- Community-Driven Agile Drupal Product Development
- Strong ability to coordinate and organize multiple projects
- Building bridges in a large network of humanitarian-focused technologists
Extra Special Talents
- Creating positive opportunities
- Paving the way for healthy and human-centered systemic changes
- Design thinking
- Understanding complicated systems
- Designing simple and subversive participatory experiences
Passions
- Advocating for diversity of thought in technology design
- Balancing online and offline experience of technology
- Connecting people to quality-of-life & quality-of-place enhancing experiences in cities
- Improving our food system
- Building a visual language
- Ecological restoration and ecoinformatics
Aspirations
- That we will have a measurable impact on local quality-of-life issues by addressing deep-rooted systemic problems with a collection of essential, delightful, disruptive, and persistent experiences.
- That we will make it commonplace to co-create the obvious, and missing, civic tools, and experiences.
- That you will join in any of these efforts. Check out my current projects.