City Centered: Symposium Registration Friday, June 11th 1pm-5pm & Saturday, June 12th 9am-5pm

City Centered is a three-day festival of locative media and urban community in San Francisco. The event includes demonstrations and installations in the Tenderloin district, a symposium in the Mission district, and a weekend of community training workshops. 

Over two weekends, it will engage artists, educators, civic organizations and community members of all ages in exploring how how locative media can act as a platform and venue for community-led expression.

City Centered begins with a free and open to the public afternoon gathering to discuss how to create and use data visualization. On Saturday, the second day of the free and open to the public Symposium will continue to explore the practice of using data gathering to address social issues. 

Full schedule at www.CityCentered.org

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 on Sensors/Uncensored: The great urban experiment

2:15 – 2:45 Stamen Design, ARUP, Movity.com, Tenderloin Tech Lab on Designing Data Visualization

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

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

1:00 – 11:30 Tenderloin, Community and Daily Lives

Location as Political

11:30 – 12:30 Presentors: Brett Stalbaum and collaborators 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

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

4:15 – 4:30 Closing comments