– Design thinking for the common good
– Maximize collisions & accelerate serendipity
– 1+1=3
Designing processes to creatively solve problems and build relationships in our civic community.
05/31/2013
Be there.
Open Chattanooga Hack-a-thon Website: http://hack4chatt.eventbrite.com/Open Chattanooga is committed to helping make our city and our lives work better and we need your help! We’ll bring the data and all you have to do is show up with your creative and tech skills to help animate public information into tools, apps, and other m...
Excerpt from an article written by Michael Hendrix titled "Creative Leadership Is Gardening, Not Architecture."
Architecture is envisioned, planned, and executed. It is a singular expression or provision, closely conforming to a plan, always requiring control. Ideally the architect achieves success when all the elements are arranged as presented. The architect makes the physical world obey.
Gardening is attentive, responsive, and warm-hearted. It’s about helping living things grow to their potential—living things that are under your influence, but not within your control. The elements provide or destroy, and the gardener is in dialogue with the plants to encourage and heal.
Read more... http://livabilitylaw.com/archives/11159
Register to hear Michael Speak in Chattanooga... http://chattanooga.aiga.org/event/innovation-starts/
Creative Leadership Is Gardening, Not Architecture In 1975, musician Brian Eno and painter Peter Schmidt…
05/09/2013
10 Ideas Driving The Future Of Social Entrepreneurship The 10th Annual Skoll World Forum, which brought together several hundred of the world’s leading social entrepreneurs to Oxford, has just wrapped for another year. The Forum serves as a useful barometer for how the climate of social enterprise is changing.When it launched in 2004, it was all about c...
05/03/2013
City Council is discussing making it legal to have chickens in Chattanooga... for $50. What do you think?
City Council to consider allowing urban chicken farming | Nooga.com City Council to consider allowing urban chicken farming
05/01/2013
Today we discussed the upcoming IDEO event, Public Office, future partnerships, and creative ways for people to become creative citizens.
04/30/2013
Where does innovation start? Find out on May 21st from Michael Hendrix, a Creative Director and an Associate Partner at IDEO. Learn more by following the link http://chattanooga.aiga.org/event/innovation-starts/
We're excited to be partnering with our friends at AIGA on Innovation Starts [ ].
Michael Hendrix, Associate Partner and Studio Director at IDEO Boston, will spend an evening with AIGA Chattanooga to discuss innovation culture. Attendees will learn where innovation starts and what sustains it. Designers and non-designers alike should join this conversation. This time will yield new relationships, collaborations, and conversations by connecting people of diverse backgrounds and worldviews.
04/24/2013
Chattanooga City Council OKs Mayor Andy Berke's restructuring plans The Chattanooga City Council unanimously approved a major City Hall reorganization, but not without a warning to Mayor Andy Berke.
03/15/2013
Returning Urban Design to Chattanooga http://www.chattanoogapulse.com/articles/a-return-to-urban-dreaming/page-2.html
A Return to Urban Dreaming? After years of neglect under Ron Littlefield, will Andy Berke embrace urban design as part of his agenda?
03/06/2013
City Politics Cartoon by Clay Bennett
03/05/2013
03/05/2013
This just in from Nooga.com
Get your voter perks and join the movement, voting is just the beginning...
http://www.nooga.com/160369/on-the-ballot-voter-perks/
On the ballot: Voter perks | Nooga.com On the ballot: Voter perks