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IDEAS
CITY
FESTIVAL
Program
May 28–30, 2015
Around the Bowery
New York City

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Conference May 28, 2015
Great Hall, the Cooper Union
Location:
Great Hall,
the Cooper Union
7 East 7th Street
(between 3rd and
4th Avenues )
Tickets:
Tickets may be purchased at ideas-city.org
$50 Conference Pass for all Thursday events
at the Cooper Union including Mayoral Panel
$25 Mayoral Panel only
Free for students with valid I.D.
as capacity allows, space is limited
Theme:
This year’s IDEAS CITY Festival will take
place May 28–30 and center on the theme of
The Invisible City. Dozens of artists, one hundred
organizations, and tens of thousands of visitors
will come together to explore questions of
transparency and surveillance, citizenship and
representation, expression and suppression,
participation and dissent, and the enduring
quest for visibility in the city.
The Festival will kick off with a series of talks,
panels, discussions, and short films at the Great
Hall at the Cooper Union. Speakers will include
some of the world’s most forward-thinking
visionaries, who will discuss key civic issues
and formulate action for the city of tomorrow.
Panelists will address the following pressing
questions, among many others:
• The designers shaping the cities of the future must
engage with an increasingly challenging set of hypothe-
tical conditions—scenarios that often remain invisible to
their inhabitants. How do urbanists, artists, architects,
and activists create habitats that anticipate drastic fu-
ture change such as overcrowding and climate change?
• A vast proportion of our lives exists as an invisible
online record of our identities, interests, and affiliations.
What role do data and privacy play in the perpetuation
of democracy in the twenty-first century?
• We are increasingly dependent on global-network
infrastructures that are as invisible as they are vast.
How can networks and processes be made more
transparent, accessible, and empowering? How can they
guarantee accountability? Can art be the connective
membrane in this process?
• Within the city, an increasing number of people—
such as the homeless, the elderly, and undocumented
immigrants—are disappearing from sight. Is there a
cartography to identify those who have wandered or
been driven from the center?
IDEAS-CITY.ORG@IDEASCITY #IDEASCITY
IDEAS CITY is a collaborative, civic
program founded by the New Museum in
2011 with the belief that art and culture
are essential to the future vitality of cities.
IDEAS CITY builds on the New Museum’s
mission of “New Art, New Ideas” by ex-
panding the Museum beyond its walls into
the civic realm. Addressing some of the
key challenges and opportunities facing
cities around the world today, the Festival
creates networks, produces cultural capi-
tal for economic development, and seeds
concrete projects that realize innovative
ideas.
IDEAS CITY provides an important
platform for thinkers and practitioners
from a variety of disciplines, including the
arts, design, architecture, urban planning,
technology, science, business, sociology,
and education, as well as civic and govern-
mental institutions, to exchange ideas,
locate problems, propose solutions, and
engage the public’s participation.
Livestreaming:
All events will be livestreamed
on the IDEAS CITY website:
ideas-city.orgNew Museum (Founder)
The Architectural League of New York
Bowery Poetry Club
The Cooper Union
Storefront for Art and Architecture
The Drawing Center
Program is subject to change
Please visit ideas-city.org for updates
Executive Committee

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Jonathan Bowles (moderator)
Executive Director, Center for an Urban Future
Since 2002, Jonathan Bowles has been Executive Director of the
Center for an Urban Future, a Manhattan-based think tank dedicated
to independent research about key policy issues facing New York City
and other cities. Under Bowles’s direction, the Center authored an
acclaimed study about the significant impact immigrant entrepreneurs
are having on cities’ economies, a study about New York City’s inno-
vation economy, as well as a report about how to retain and grow New
York City’s middle class.
Mannahatta: Trailer for an Opera
about Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs
Directed by Joshua Frankel,
composed by Judd Greenstein, libretto by Tracy K. Smith
9 min
Rivane Neuenschwander
Selected Photographs
from Mapa-Mundi BR (postal), 2007
10 min (looped)
@IDEASCITY #IDEASCITY
9:30–10 AM
Lisa Phillips Toby Devan Lewis Director, New Museum
Joseph Grima Director, IDEAS CITY
10–10:10 AM
11 AM–12:15 PM
10:10–11 AM
Lawrence Lessig
Director, Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics,
Harvard University
Lawrence Lessig is a proponent of reduced legal restrictions on copyright, trademark,
and the radio frequency spectrum, particularly in technology applications. In May
2014, he launched a crowdfunded political action committee, which he termed Mayday
PAC, with the purpose of electing candidates to Congress who would pass campaign
finance reform. Lessig is a founding board member of Creative Commons and Foun-
der of Rootstrikers.
In the information age, we are increasingly de-
pendent on global-network infrastructures that are as
invisible as they are vast. These networks dictate the
dynamics of decision-making and the shape of power
structures, from government records and trading
platforms to the seemingly more “democratic” web
and social media. How, as citizens, do we relate to
the networks, infrastructures, and technologies that
underpin urban life today? What role, if any, do they
play in promoting justice and accountability, there-
by shaping the future of society? How can art and
culture encourage awareness of the centrality of data
in twenty-first-century life?
Lawrence Lessig
Seeing Through the Noise
Hope and
Unrest in
The Invisible
City
The age of network culture
offers new, powerful tools for
individual and collective expres-
sion, and in response, the act
of protest is rapidly evolving;
individuals, groups, and entire
communities once conveniently
invisible to decision-makers are
self-organizing to make their
voices heard. From Cairo to
Istanbul and from Barcelona to
São Paulo, the sight of public
squares inundated by a sea of
protesters has become one of
the key images of our time. At
the same time, an increasing
number of people—the poor,
the homeless, the elderly, the
mentally ill, and undocumented
immigrants, to name just a
few groups—are disappearing
from view. How do the disen-
franchised find representation
in the city today? Is there a
cartography to guide those who
have wandered or been driven
from the center? This panel will
analyze the social and political
crises triggered by new techno-
logies, the shifts in the balance
of power within society they are
bringing about, and the role of
art in defining a new paradigm
of social justice.
Rosanne
Haggerty
President,
Community Solutions
A recipient of a MacArthur
“Genius Grant,” Rosanne
Haggerty is President and
CEO of Community Solutions, a
nonprofit organization working
to strengthen communities
and end homelessness. In 1990,
she founded Common Ground
Community and reopened the
legendary Times Square Hotel
as a place for homeless and
low-income residents, thereby
reducing homelessness by 87
percent in the twenty-block
vicinity surrounding it. In 2012,
Haggerty was awarded the
Jane Jacobs Medal for New
Ideas and Activism.
Jonathas
de Andrade
Artist
Jonathas de Andrade lives and
works in Recife, Brazil, and
creates art that investigates
cultural phenomena that are
in danger of vanishing. He has
participated in the 12th Lyon
Biennial (2013), the 2nd New
Museum Triennial (2012), the
12th Istanbul Biennial (2011), the
29th São Paulo Biennial (2010),
and the 7th Mercosul Biennial
(2009). In 2012, he received a
special jury prize for the Future
Generation Art Prize Exhibition
at the Victor Pinchuk Founda-
tion, Kiev, Ukraine.
Yto Barrada
Artist
Yto Barrada was born in Paris
and grew up in Tangier, Morocco.
She studied history and political
science at the Sorbonne and
photography at the International
Center of Photography. Her work
moves across photography, film,
publications, and installation, and
engages with the specific situation
of Tangier as a transitory locale.
She is the cofounder of the
Cinémathèque de Tanger and a
member of the Beirut-based Arab
Image Foundation. Barrada’s
work was recently featured in the
exhibition “Here and Elsewhere”
at the New Museum.
Micah White
Co-creator, Occupy Wall
Street, former Editor,
Adbusters magazine, and
Founder, Boutique Activist
Consultancy
Driven by the belief that social
change movements like Occupy
are too focused on urban environ-
ments, Micah White moved to
Nehalem, Oregon. He sees rural
towns as “clean slate[s] for buil-
ding social change,” where inha-
bitants are still recovering from
the economic and environmental
impacts of the capitalist system
that Occupy fought against. His
new for-profit firm, Boutique
Activist Consultancy, specializes
in “impossible campaigns.” White
argues that to be a full-time acti-
vist, you must have an income.
Thursday May 28
Suggested lunch location:
ETH Zurich Future Garden and Pavilion, First Street Garden
Enter at the corner of East Houston Street and 2nd Avenue
Food and drinks by Café Select (11:30 a.m.–10 p.m.)
1–2 PM 2–2:10 PM
Toward a Plausible Utopia
As the speed of technological innova-
tion accelerates, life in the twenty-
first century metropolis is coming
closer to fulfilling the predictions
of science-fiction writers of decades past, and not always for the
best. Many of the most apocalyptic scenarios envisioned by nove-
lists—extreme overcrowding, conflict driven by climate change,
the crisis of capitalism, mass uprisings—have also become all too
familiar. Could it be that the solutions to today’s challenges are
already written? What can architects learn from the wild specula-
tions of their literary heroes? Two of today’s most acclaimed voices
from the fields of architecture and science fiction will discuss their
visions for life in the near-future metropolis.
Bjarke Ingels
Architect, Founder, Bjarke Ingels
Group (BIG)
Bjarke Ingels is renowned for his innovative ap-
proach to sustainable development and renewable
energy, and his acclaimed architectural practice,
BIG, operates within the fields of architecture,
urbanism, research, and development. BIG was
recently selected as the designer of a $335 million
storm defense system to defend lower Manhattan
from future floods, as well as the new Google
campus in Palo Alto, California, in association with
Thomas Heatherwick.
IDEAS-CITY.ORGConference
12:15–1 PM
Kim Stanley Robinson
Novelist
Robinson is best known for his award-winning
“Mars” trilogy (1993–99), in which humans, in light
of environmental catastrophe, are forced to colonize
the planet Mars. His books address issues revolving
around the imminent warming of our planet as
well as the dark sides of capitalism and democracy.
He has been invited to speak at multiple fiction
and science-fiction conferences as well as at the
“Rethinking Capitalism” conference at the Univer-
sity of California, Santa Cruz, in 2011.
Connie Hedegaard
Chair, KR Foundation, and Chair, OECD
Round Table for Sustainability
In 1984, at the age of twenty-three, Connie
Hedegaard became Denmark’s youngest ever
Member of Parliament when she was elected as
a member of the Conservative People’s Party. In
1989, Hedegaard became First Spokesperson for
the Conservative People’s Party, but chose to leave
politics for journalism in 1990. In 2004, she was
appointed as Danish Minister for the Environment
and, in 2007, was placed in charge of setting up the
Danish Ministry of Climate and Energy, for which
one of the main tasks was to prepare the UN
Climate Conference in Copenhagen in December
2009. She was appointed as the European Union’s
first Commissioner for Climate Action in
February 2010.
Rohit Aggarwala
Professor of Professional Practice, School
of International and Public Affairs (SIPA),
Columbia University
Rohit Aggarwala works on cities, transporta-
tion, and the environment from the perspectives
of a former public official, a policy expert, and a
historian. In addition to his teaching and research
at Columbia’s School of International and Public Af-
fairs, he currently serves as Special Advisor to the
Chair of the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group
and leads environmental programs for Bloomberg
Philanthropies. He is also Co-chair of the Fourth
Regional Plan of the Regional Plan Association of
New York City.
Policy and The Invisible City
As more and more people flock
toward urban areas, the size and
complexity of cities is growing ex-
ponentially. As a consequence, the
designers shaping the cities of the future must engage with an
increasingly challenging set of hypothetical conditions—critical
scenarios that remain invisible in the day-to-day lives of today’s
inhabitants. In light of the author of Chicago’s seminal modern
masterplan Daniel Burnham’s invective to “make no little plans,”
how will urbanists, architects, and activists think about creating
a habitat that anticipates drastic future change, overcrowding,
and climate change? What are the guiding principles in an archi-
tecture that is preventative? This discussion will analyze the ex-
traordinary challenges of designing for unpredictable conditions,
accelerated change, and the new opportunities that arise when
one takes radical change into account.
2:20–3 PM
12 PM
Richard Flood
Director of Special Projects and
Curator at Large, New Museum

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4:30–4:35 PM
Full Disclosure and
the Morality of Information
Everything we do, from messaging our
friends to streaming music to using
public transport, generates information.
90 percent of the data in the world today
has been created in the last two years
alone, and its sheer volume means that a vast proportion of our
lives exists as an invisibile online record of our identities, interests,
and affiliations. Yet even after recent revelations of mass collection
on the part of governments, we take surprisingly little interest
in what happens to our data. This panel comprises international-
lyrenowned artists, researchers, activists, and geographers whose
work is organized around the practice of making visible, through
art and activism, the critical importance of data and privacy to the
perpetuation of democracy in the twenty-first century.
OpenStreetMap
Maps for The Invisible City
To make a map is an inherently politi-
cal act. By documenting that which is
unfamiliar and invisible, maps define
our universe; they not only record the
organization of physical space, but
shape its future form. Cartography is almost as ancient as huma-
nity itself, yet it is undergoing unprecedented change. Once drawn
and managed by an elite few, maps are increasingly collaborative,
open, fluid, and freely accessible. What is cartography’s potential
as a form of activism in the twenty-first century? What will the
map’s role be in shaping the city of the future? How can it guide us
through The Invisible City?
3–4:30 PM
Trevor Paglen
Artist, Geographer, and Author
Trevor Paglen is credited with coining the term
“Experimental Geography” to describe practices
coupling experimental cultural production and
art-making with ideas from critical human geogra-
phy about the production of space, materialism, and
praxis. Paglen’s visual work has been exhibited in
museums including the Metropolitan Museum of
Art, New York City, and Tate Modern, London.
Gabriella Coleman
(moderator)
Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological
Literacy, Art History and Communication
Studies Department, McGill University
Trained as an anthropologist, Gabriella Coleman
teaches, conducts research, and writes on computer
hackers. Her work examines the ethics of online col-
laboration and institutions as well as the role of the
law and digital media in sustaining various forms of
political activism. Her first book, Coding Freedom:
The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking, was publi-
shed by Princeton University Press in 2012.
Steve Coast
Founder, OpenStreetMap
Steve Coast is a British entrepreneur. In 2004, he
founded OpenStreetMap (OSM), a community-based
world-mapping project dubbed by the Guardian as
“the Wikipedia of maps,” thanks to its millions of
contributors across the world. OSM has created a
platform for individuals to map everything from ci-
ties to hiking trails, footpaths, and local services, as
well as slums in Sub-Saharan Africa that previously
translated as blank spots on most online maps.
William Rankin
Founder, Radical Cartography
William Rankin is a historian and cartographer. His
mapping activity is focused on reimagining every-
day urban and territorial geographies as complex
landscapes of statistics, law, and history. His maps
have appeared in publications such as Perspecta,
Harvard Design Magazine, and National Geographic
and in exhibitions at Harvard University, Pratt
Institute, the Cartographic Biennial in Lausanne,
Triennale di Milano, and the Toronto Images
Festival. Rankin’s maps traveled for several years
with the Independent Curators International’s
“Experimental Geographies” exhibition. He teaches
at Yale University, where he is Assistant Professor
of History of Science.
Laura Kurgan (moderator)
Associate Professor of Architecture,
Columbia University Graduate School of
Architecture, Planning and Preservation
Laura Kurgan is Director of the Spatial Informa-
tion Design Lab (SIDL) and Associate Professor
of Architecture at Columbia University’s Graduate
School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.
Her work explores issues ranging from digital loca-
tion technologies, the ethics and politics of mapping,
to new structures of participation in design, and the
visualization of urban and global data. Her work
has appeared at the Venice Architecture Biennale;
the Whitney Altria, New York City; Museu d’Art
Contemporani de Barcelona; the Center for Art and
Media Karlsruhe (ZKM), Germany; and the Museum
of Modern Art, New York City.
Christopher Soghoian
Principal Technologist and Senior Policy
Analyst, ACLU’s Speech, Privacy, and
Technology Project
Between 2009 and 2010, Christopher Soghoian was
the first in-house technologist at the Federal Trade
Commission’s Division of Privacy and Identity
Protection, where he worked on investigations of
Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, and Netflix. Prior to
joining the FTC, he co-created the Do Not Track
privacy anti-tracking mechanism now adopted by all
of the major web browsers. His PhD, completed at
Indiana University in 2012, focused on the role that
third-party service providers play in facilitating law
enforcement surveillance of their customers.
Jillian C. York
Director for International Freedom
of Expression, Electronic Frontier
Foundation
Jillian C. York’s work focuses on free expression,
particularly in the Arab world. She has written for
a variety of publications, including Al Jazeera,
the Atlantic, the Guardian, Foreign Policy,
and CNN. York recently contributed a chapter to
the volume Beyond WikiLeaks: Implications for
the Future of Communications, Journalism and
Society (2013).
4:35–5:45 PM
2008, A Year of Edits
1:30 min (looped)
Finding The Invisible City
5:45–6 PM
Adam Magyar
Stainless, 42 Street, 2013
10:49 min
6–6:15 PM
6:15–6:20 PM
6:20–7:30 PM
Joseph Grima
Director, IDEAS CITY
Annise Parker
Houston, Texas
Annise Parker has been elected Houston Mayor
three times, serving since 2010, and is one of only
two women to hold the city’s highest elected office.
She has been named by Time magazine as one of the
hundred most influential people in the world. In ad-
dition to her duties as Mayor, Parker is a member of
President Obama’s Task Force on Climate Prepared-
ness and Resilience and chairs the US Conference of
Mayors Criminal and Social Justice Committee.
Carmen Yulín Cruz
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Carmen Yulín Cruz, Mayor of San Juan since 2013,
has been involved in the city’s politics since 1992,
when she served as an advisor to the then-mayor.
She is a long-standing member of the Popular
Democratic Party (PPD) and is a leading figure
in the Party’s Soberanista wing, which supports
Puerto Rican sovereignty while keeping such US
ties as currency, common defense, and American
citizenship. The Mayor is a champion of women’s
rights and has, since 2005, served as President
of the Popular Women Organization; she has also
served as the PPD Speaker for the Commission of
Women’s Affairs. One of her prime initiatives has
been to incentivize the municipal economy, with
the revitalization of the Rio Piedras neighborhood
serving as a paradigm.
Kurt Andersen (moderator)
Host of the Peabody Award–winning Studio 360,
a coproduction of Public Radio International and
WNYC, Kurt Andersen is also Cofounder and
Editor of Spy magazine. He is also the author of two
novels, Heyday and Turn of the Century.
@IDEASCITY #IDEASCITYThursday May 28 IDEAS-CITY.ORGConference
9:30–10 AM
Selected Photographs
from Mapa-Mundi BR
(postal), 2007
By Rivane
Neuenschwander
Screening
10–11 AM
Lawrence Lessig
Keynote Address
11 AM–12:15 PM
Hope and Unrest in
The Invisible City
Panel Discussion
12:15–1 PM
Make No
Little Plans:
A CONVERSATION
IN TWO PARTS
Part 1.
Towards a
Plausible Utopia
Conversation
1–2 PM
Lunch Break
2–2:10 PM
Mannahatta:
Trailer
for an Opera
about Robert Moses
and Jane Jacobs
Directed by Joshua
Frankel, composed
by Judd Greenstein,
libretto by
Tracy K. Smith
Screening
2:20–3 PM
Make No
Little Plans:
A CONVERSATION
IN TWO PARTS
Part 2.
Policy and
the Invisible City
Conversation
3–4:30 PM
Full Disclosure
and the Morality
of Information
Panel Discussion
4:30–4:35 PM
2008, A Year of
Edits
By OpenStreetMap
Screening
4:35–5:45 PM
Maps for the
Invisible City
Panel Discussion
6–6:15 PM
Stainless, 42
Street, 2013
By Adam Magyar
Screening
6:20–7:30 PM
Finding the
Invisible City
Mayoral Panel

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Entrance on Mott Street between Prince and East Houston Streets
7–8:30 PM Municipal Art Society
and Architizer
Pitching the City
Free and open to the public. Registration required: MAS.org/PitchingTheCity
Seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis.
235 Bowery
12–3 PM IDEAS CITY:
Detroit Workshop Session
By invitation only
This by-invitation-only workshop will be conducted byDetroit
cultural activists Piper Carter, Halima Cassell, Pashon Murray,
and Jerry Paffendorf.
In preparation for IDEAS CITY Detroit, which will take place in the
fall of 2015, IDEAS CITY convenes a by-invitation-only workshop to
be led by Detroit cultural activists and urban entrepreneurs. Partici-
pants include Halima Cassell, Vice President, Oakland Avenue Artist
Coalition; Piper Carter, educator and founding member, Detroit Digi-
tal Justice Coalition; Khalil Mogassabi, Head of Urban Design, City
of Detroit; Pashon Murray, CEO, Detroit Dirt; and Jerry Paffendorf,
Founder, Loveland Technologies.
Projects @IDEASCITY #IDEASCITY IDEAS-CITY.ORGFriday May 29
Projects May 29, 2015
On its second day, morning’s keynote speech will lead into an afternoon of
workshops and an evening of screenings, rapid-fire pitches, and performative
actions. The invisible undercurrents of urban life will come alive throughout the
Lower East Side and Little Italy as IDEAS CITY takes over a basilica and a
former gym, ending just before the break of dawn.
7 East 7th Street (between 3rd and 4th Avenues)
Tickets are $25 and may be purchased at ideas-city.org
Livestreaming: This event will be livestreamed
on the IDEAS CITY website: ideas-city.org
10–11 AM
Welcome and Introduction to the Keynote Speaker by
Lisa Phillips, Toby Devan Lewis Director, New Museum
IDEAS CITY Keynote
Julián CastroUS Secretary of Housing and Development
As three-term mayor of San Antonio, Julián Castro was known
for innovative governance. His “Decade of Downtown” program
campaigned for new investments in San Antonio’s city center and
older communities and brought in $350 million of private sector
money, generating more than 2,400 housing units. In 2010, Cas-
tro was enrolled in the World Economic Forum’s list of Young
Global Leaders and named by Time magazine as one of its “40
under 40” notable leaders in American politics. At the 2012
Democratic National Convention, he became the first Latino to
deliver a keynote. Castro took office as the sixteenth Secretary
of the US Department.
235 Bowery
Special panel moderated by Lisa Phillips,
Toby Devan Lewis Director, New Museum
Details to be announced on the IDEAS CITY website:
ideas-city.org
3:30–5 PM
Screening of The Dent
by Basim Magdy 19:02 min (looped)
Introduction by Lauren Cornell
Free and open to public. Seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis.
A screening of the lush and evocative experimental film The Dent by
Basim Magdy, currently featured in the 2015 New Museum Triennial:
“Surround Audience.”
Basim Magdy, The Dent, 2014, Super 16mm film transferred to full HD video: 19:02 min
(Commissioned by the Abraaj Group Art prize 2014.) Photo: Courtesy the artist
(Doors open at 6:30 PM)
Vote for the next best design idea at this high-energy pitch event
showcasing the newest city-building projects presented by an array
of urban entrepreneurs and innovators.
After a months-long open call and selection process, five urban entre-
preneurs will present their ideas to improve the contemporary city at
the biennial Pitching the City competition. These finalists will present
their visions to an expert panel that includes Majora Carter, urban
revitalization strategist; Shohei Shigematsu, Principal at OMA; and
Scott Anderson, Cofounder of the design and technology company
Control Group. The panel will offer each project-team advice on how
these ideas may be realized, and the event will culminate with a live
audience poll to determine a winner. In 2013, Pitching the City cap-
tured our imaginations with projects including +Pool and New Lab.
This year’s finalists include the Miami Underground (Meg Daly, Foun-
der, Friends of the Underline, and Hamish Smyth, Designer, Pen-
tagram), Open Lobby (Lindsey May, Creator), East River Skyway
(Daniel Levy, President and Founder), Melbourne Docklands Surf
Park (Damian Rogers, Creator), and NYC Real Estate Investment
Cooperative (Interim Steering Committee and Facilitation Team:
Mark Scott, blacklandmatters; Paula Z. Segal, 596 Acres; and Caroline
Woolard, NYCTBD and OurGoods).
9 PM–12 AM

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11–11:30 PM
ACT 8.
Jace Clayton, aka
DJ/Rupture, and
Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts
The Last Dance
This collaborative performance by Jace
Clayton, aka DJ/Rupture, and Sharifa
Rhodes-Pitts, author of Harlem is Nowhere,
will incorporate music, text, and dance in
tribute to the recently torn-down Harlem
Renaissance Ballroom.
11:30 PM–12 AM
Intermission
12–3 AM
ACT 9.
Ursula Scherrer
afloat
In an immersive performance of floating
sounds and images, the visible will become
invisible, the invisible will become visible.
The audience is invited to sit, lie down, come,
and go. Supported by the Swiss Arts Council
Pro Helvetia.
7:55–8:10 PM
Deflation Performance
of Nomadic Place by
Jordi Enrich Jorba
10Projects @IDEASCITY #IDEASCITY IDEAS-CITY.ORGFriday May 29
268 Mulberry Street (between East Houston and Prince Streets)
7:30 PM–3 AM
A Performative
Conference in Nine
Acts
Tickets are $20 and may be purchased at ideas-city.org.
Guests are welcome to come and go at any time. Tickets
and seating are available on a first-come, first-served
basis, as capacity allows.Valid photo I.D. required.
A Performative Conference in Nine Acts
will take issues discussed in the auditorium
the previous day onto the stage with spoken
word, dance battles, hot-air balloon perfor-
mances, and immersive video and sound ins-
tallations. Start times are approximate. There
will be three intermissions.
7:30–7:50 PM
ACT 1.
Jordi Enrich Jorba
Nomadic Place
From the bowels of an inoperative hot-air
balloon, artist Jordi Enrich Jorba will
summon a work of temporary architecture.
7:50–7:55 PM
Welcome by Master
of Ceremonies
Bob Holman, Poet and Proprietor,
Bowery Poetry Club
8:10–8:40 PM
ACT 2.
United States
Department of Arts
and Culture
People's State of the Union:
“2015 Poetic Address to the Nation”
Inspired by stories shared at hundreds
of People’s State of the Union events
nationwide, poets will perform the “2015
Poetic Address to the Nation.”
8:40–9 PM
ACT 3.
Penny Arcade
Projections during intermissions
provided by:
ARTPORT_making waves
COOL STORIES FOR WHEN THE PLANET
GETS HOT, IV
COOL STORIES IV is the fourth edition by
ARTPORT_making waves of short art videos and
animations addressing climate change. This edition
focuses on food production and consumption.
The European Balloon Festival in Igualada, 2014. Photo: Marc Vila
Penny Arcade. Photo: Steven Menendez
BattleFest dancer Lil G at BattleFest 30. Photo: Epic Major
Saída De Emergência performance, Havana, 2012. Photo: Élida Lima
Danny Hoch, Taking Over
Katja Loher, Last Supper?, 2013
Photo: Nina Kuo
Photo: the artist
Longing Lasts Longer
Penny Arcade’s Longing Lasts Longer is
a passionate rumination on love, longing, and
the loss of New York’s cultural identity, set to
a rollicking live-mixed soundscape.
9–9:25 PM
ACT 4.
BattleFest
Curated by Kareem Baptiste
The home of the most exciting Extreme
Street Dancing competitions around the
nation, BattleFest will bring amazing
one-on-one dance battles to IDEAS CITY.
9:25–9:40 PM
Intermission
9:40–10 PM
ACT 5.
Joshua Frankel
Plan of the City
Plan of the City is an animated film about the
architecture of New York City blasting off
into outer space and resettling on Mars.
10–10:30 PM
ACT 6.
Daniel Lima,
Featuring Eugênio
Lima, Felipe Teixeira,
and Élida Lima
Presented by Invisíveis Produções
Harlem: Cultural Capital
Daniel Lima will present an audiovisual
experience set to a live score and featuring in-
terviews with residents from cities across the
world threatened by displacement. Supported
by Sesc São Paulo.
10:30–10:45 PM
Intermission
10:45–11 PM
ACT 7.
Danny Hoch
Excerpt from Taking Over
Taking on the character of a taxi dispatcher,
Danny Hoch will perform an excerpt from
his heartbreaking and raucously funny play
about gentrification and feelings of displace-
ment in New York.
Asians in New York
(Lorin Roser and Nina Kuo)
CorbuRuption
CorbuRuption will use I Ching–inspired animations
and 3-D simulation generatrices to recompose past
architectural styles of New York City, bringing our
attention to the ways architectural shifts mirror the
physical transitions within our city.

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1 ecoartspace
2 ArtHome
3 Solar One
4 Institute for Public Architecture
5 Fourth Arts Block (FABnyc)
6 Downtown Art / LES History Month
7 Center for Urban Pedagogy
8–14 Family and Playlab
8 Genspace NYC, Inc
9 Groundswell
10 City Atlas
11 French Institute Alliance
Française (FIAF) (12–3 p.m.)
11 + POOL (3–6 p.m.)
12 Fixers Collective
13 Anne Apparu-Hall, Ted Hall,
and Friends
14 Public Interactives Research Team
(the New School) and Playable Media
Lab (Sarah Lawrence College)
15 Second Media
16 Med44–Media Architecture
17 Changing Environments
18 Emily Johnson/Catalyst
19 The Bowery Mission
20 The Living Theater
21 Naturally Occurring Cultural Districts
New York (NOCD-NY)
22 Loisaida, Inc.
23 Bowery Arts + Science, CityLore,
Endangered Language Alliance,
and the U.S. Department of Arts
and Culture
24 miLES
25 The Irwin S. Chanin School of
Architecture of the Cooper Union
26 The Uni Project
27 The Sketchbook Project
28 Visual AIDS
29 Transportation Alternatives
30–39 Hester Street Fair
40 Center for Genomic Gastronomy with
Edible Geography, presented by the
Finnish Cultural Institute in New York
41 Marjetica Potrč and Design for
the Living World
42 Lower East Side Ecology Center
(E-waste)
43 New Museum Education Department
44 New York City Department of
Design and Construction
45 Circus for Construction with
Austin+Mergold
46 The Drawing Center
47 Jordi Enrich Jorba
48 Technoculture, Art and Games
Resource Center (TAG) with Gina
Haraszti and Pierson Browne
49 Storefront for Art and Architecture
(Plush)
50 Storefront for Art and Architecture
and Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural
and Educational Center
with Jonah Bokaer
51 Arte Institute and Albanian
Institute New York
52 The Lodge Gallery
53 Art in Odd Places
54 The New York City Urban
Debate League
55 Two Bridges Neighborhood Council
56 Abrons Arts Center (12–3 p.m.)
56 Materials for the Arts (3–6 p.m.)
57 Come Out & Play
58 The Movement Creative
59 596 Acres and Deborah Berke
Partners
60 The Greenpoint Bioremediation
Project (gBP)
61 NYC Parks
62 Lower East Side Ecology Center
and NYC Compost Project
63 Manny Cantor Center and Laura Nova
64 MTWTF
65 Municipal Art Society of New York
66 The Lower Eastside Girls Club
67 Cooper Square Committee
67 Davidson Rafailidis
67 Lower East Side Business
Improvement District
67 Muséum National d’Histoire
Naturelle de Paris
67 New York City Housing Authority
67 NYU ITP, NYU CUSP, MIT DUSP
67 Woodward Gallery &
Gotham SideWalks
68 The Institute for Aesthletics
69 Chinatown YMCA

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Future Garden
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Information and Press Check-In Food
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Bike Valet Medical Tent Foamspace
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New Museum
235 Bowery
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231 Bowery
The Bowery Mission
227 Bowery
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for tours
Rhizome at
University Settlement
at the Houston Street Center
273 Bowery
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Street Program May 30, 2015, 12–6 p.m.
One hundred cultural and community groups will transform the streetscape
around the Bowery neighborhood into a temporary city of ideas, redefining
public space through participatory programming and unexpected structures
for gathering, several of which will be constructed from normally invisible
commercial materials. These programs are free and open to the public, and
all ages are welcome!
Around the Bowery
11 + POOL
The World’s First Water-
Filtrating, Floating Pool
+ POOL is a floating pool in the inner
harbor of the New York City waterfront,
designed to filter the very river in which it
floats, cleaning more than 600,000 gallons of
water that enters through its walls every
single day. No chemicals or additives are
used—just natural river water. (3–6 p.m.)
59 596 Acres with
Deborah Berke Partners
What do we do with our land?
Self-guided audio tours and annotated
maps of the Bowery and the Lower East
Side will make visible sites of past, present,
and future opportunities for neighbors to
shape the city together.
56 Abrons Arts Center
The City of the Lost and Found
Use recycled materials to recreate an
object, a feeling, or an idea you have lost.
Chart its travels on a New York City map.
(12–3 p.m.)
13 Anne Apparu-Hall,
Ted Hall, and Friends
Spider Web
Artists Anne Apparu-Hall and Ted Hall,
along with a group of friends, will present
a “spider web” of talks, demonstrations,
collectives, and workshops.
53 Art in Odd Places
RECALL
Ten visual and performance art interven-
tions, selected from AiOP’s ten years of
public art programming, will be performed
throughout the Festival area.
51 Arte Institute and
Albanian Institute New York
Surface Markers and I will
play your soul
Visual artist Joana Ricou will take “selfies”
of visitors. Pianist Renato Diz and guitarist
Taulant Mehmeti will improvise melodies
inspired by the photographs.
2 ArtHome
ArtBuilt Mobile Studios
Moveable work spaces can house artists,
social service agencies, and vendors. Learn
how they support our disappearing cultural
sector by making small-scale enterprise
visible and mobile.
Wojciech Gilewicz,
Presented in Collaboration
with Artists Alliance Inc.
RRRC: Reduce, Reuse,
Recycle, Compost
During the course of the IDEAS CITY
Festival, Polish-American artist Wojciech
Gilewicz will quietly collect, sort, and
recycle discarded waste produced by
visitors to the event.
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67 Cooper Square Committee
Tenants’ Rights Walking Tour:
An Exploration of Current
Housing Issues on the Lower
East Side
This tour is designed to both highlight
tenant-organizing victories and the
present-day struggles tenants face on the
Lower East Side. The tour will be leaving
from the Shared Tour Hub in Sara D.
Roosevelt Park at 1 p.m.
25 The Irwin S. Chanin
School of Architecture of
the Cooper Union
Building a Model of Education
A student-built model of the Cooper Union
Foundation Building journeyed through
New York City to engage with the public
and key civic monuments.
67 Davidson Rafailidis
“MirrorMirror”
Winner of the 2013 IDEAS CITY Street
Architecture Prize, “MirrorMirror” reflects
the cityscape and human activity on the
ground, offering a dynamic, intensified
view of street life.Tours will be leaving
Roosevelt Park.
6 Downtown Art /
LES History Month
LES STORIES
LES STORIES will celebrate Lower East
Side History by chalking the neighbo-
rhood’s past on its pavement; this version
will include call-in recordings of music and
readings of text.
46 The Drawing Center
Meditation Room: Horizon
The Drawing Center presents Balmori
Associates’ Meditation Room: Horizon, a
work that creates the sense of an expansive
horizon in the smallest of spaces.
The Drawing Center presents Balmori Associates,
Meditation Room: Horizon, 2015
1 ecoartspace
To What Measure? Designs for
Incremental Preparedness
ecoartspace and Habitat for Artists will
collaborate on a series of art and environ-
mental workshops, displays, and discus-
sions on topics including renewable energy
and growing food alternatively.
23 Bowery Arts + Science,
CityLore, Endangered
Language Alliance, and
the U.S. Department of
Arts and Culture
Ministry of Endangered Language
With a projected film, speakers of endange-
red languages, and an interactive booth, we
will create an exciting tribute and call to
action for linguistic diversity.
19 The Bowery Mission
227 Bowery Tours
The Bowery Mission will open its doors to
the public for tours of its historic building
at 227 Bowery. Tours will occur every half
hour from 12 to 6 p.m.
40 Center for Genomic
Gastronomy with Edible
Geography, Presented
by the Finnish Cultural
Institute in New York
Smog Tasting
Smog Tasting uses egg foams to harvest air
pollution. We will serve smog meringues
from different locations to allow urban
atmospheres to be tasted and compared.
7 Center for Urban Pedagogy
Sewer in a Suitcase
Sewer in a Suitcase will demystify the
hidden workings of New York City’s water
infrastructure by following the journey
water takes beyond the drain.
17 Changing Environments
Soofa
Powered by solar energy, the Soofa
bench will collect valuable environmental
data while giving urban dwellers a place to
chat and charge up.
69 Chinatown YMCA
Fitness Demos
Our fitness staff will demonstrate exercises
and workout ideas to keep people from
being invisible.
45 Circus for Construction
with Austin+Mergold
The Wall Inside
Circus for Construction is a traveling event
space situated on the back of a truck for
exhibiting and experiencing works of art
and architecture.
The Circus for Construction is a mobile gallery that travels to
and generates sites of discourse in unexpected locations
10 City Atlas
Share Your City II
Our temporary-tattoo series will continue
at the IDEAS CITY Festival by showing
what the city needs but doesn’t have.
57 Come Out & Play
Sesame Street Boxheads, ART
BOY SIN, and Sloth Chase
Come Out & Play will present three games
from their popular festival of street games,
which turns New York City into a giant
playground.
18 Emily Johnson/Catalyst
Conjuring Future Joy
Conjuring Future Joy is a collective ima-
gining of a joyful, shared future. Inspired
by wild imaginings, our ideas become
actions, thus manifesting true change for
our communities.
8 – 14 Family and PlayLab
“The Worms”
“The Worms” tents can be combined in an
infinite number of different configurations,
generating important gathering spots and
orientation points at public events.
12 Fixers Collective
Fixing Session
Bring your broken things to our table and
we will examine, diagnose, and (hopefully)
repair that broken item!
5 Fourth Arts Block
(FABnyc)
Invisible Memory, Movement,
& Sound
Share your Lower East Side stories
and explore our neighborhood through
Typewritten Tales and a neighborhood
Sound Walk. Sound Walks will be leaving
from FABnyc’s tent at 1 p.m. and 3 p.m.
11 French Institute
Alliance Française (FIAF)
Lights in French and
American Cities
The French Institute Alliance Française
(FIAF) will present activities en français
for kids about how lights make a city
visible or invisible, focusing on French and
American cities. (12–3 p.m.)
8 Genspace NYC, Inc
Genspace Citizens Science
and the City
Genspace, a citizen science biotech lab, and
scientist Christine Marizzi from the DNA
Learning Center will offer a hands-on bac-
teria-printing workshop, making New York
City’s microbiome visible and accessible.
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Bioremediation Project
(gBP)
Free Soil Testing
Bring your soil! The gBP with the Urban
Soils Institute at Brooklyn College will
perform on-site soil testing. Act to alleviate
the anxiety of the unknown properties of
urban soils.
9 Groundswell
Scaffold Up! Making The
Invisible City Visible
Join Groundswell, New York City’s leading
community public art organization, to dis-
cover the symbols and public artworks that
make visible our “invisible cities.”
30 – 39 Hester Street Fair
IDEAS CITY Food Court
Hester Street Fair will bring together
favorite local restaurants, along with exci-
ting new food vendors, for a mini artisanal
food festival.
68 The Institute for
Aesthletics
Mayan Ball Game Tournament
This tournament will mash the ancient
Mesoamerican sport with New York City
street basketball, pitting cultural institu-
tions against each other to crown the 2015
Mayan Ball Game champ.
4 Institute for Public
Architecture
Total Reset
Explore the Institute for Public Architec-
ture’s proposals for public and below-mar-
ket housing in New York, created in
response to Mayor de Blasio’s “total reset”
for housing.
47 Jordi Enrich Jorba
Nomadic Place
Artist Jordi Enrich Jorba repurposes ino-
perative hot-air balloons to create colorful,
temporary structures that house commu-
nity events, performances, and workshops.
20 The Living Theatre
No Place to Hide
No Place to Hide is an experimental and
participatory theater experience about
hiding and the human condition in which
we all find ourselves.
52 The Lodge Gallery
The Positivity Scrolls
This project, led by Thailand-born, New
York City–based artist Pairoj Pichetme-
takul, will utilize socially inviting plein
air portrait painting sessions to create
temporary outdoor art spaces that are free
for open participation.
22 Loisaida, Inc.
Invisible Loisaida
Loisaida, Inc. presents a performance and
workshop tent highlighting the invisible
creative and social history of the larger—
and more accurate—downtown scene,
making Loisaida, Inc., visible.
67 Lower East Side
Business Improvement
District
Lower East Side Public Art
Tour featuring 100 Gates
This tour of public art in the neighborhood
will include intermittent stops into perti-
nent galleries. The tours will be leaving
Roosevelt Park at 12:30 p.m. and 3:30 p.m.
42 Lower East Side
Ecology Center
E-waste Recycling Collection
and Upcycle Workshop
The Lower East Side Ecology Center will
collect unwanted electronics (computers
and TVs, and everything that plugs into
them) and offer an upcycle workshop with
collected materials.
62 Lower East Side
Ecology Center
Save the Swales
Lower East Side Ecology Center, Looms-
tate, and Open Source Landscape will
expose the public to the invisible green
infrastructure that is all around us.
66 The Lower Eastside
Girls Club
Destination: Avenue D
Lower Eastside Girls Club alumni will pro-
vide free walking tour maps and informa-
tion about art on Avenue D.
63 Manny Cantor Center
Manny Cantor Center and
Laura Nova
Join a senior citizen–led walking tour of the
Lower East Side. This immersive journey
will combine physical movement with
memory to share personal stories of our
ever-changing neighborhood.The tours will
be leaving at 1:30, 2:30, and 4:30 p.m.
56 Materials for the Arts
Make Visible the Music:
Giant Xylophones with
Materials for the Arts
Materials for the Arts invites everyone to
collaborate in the creation of giant xylophones
made of reused materials, making visible the
invisible resources of New York City.
(3–6 p.m.)
16 Med44–Media
Architecture
Urban Speaker
This portable urban art installation will
allow people to broadcast their voices in
public space by calling a telephone number
from their mobile phones.
24 miLES
Pop-up Caravan
A pop-up caravan will publicly showcase
the work in progress of usually invisible
and hidden workplaces. Pop-up Caravan
is a collaboration by miLES, Architecture
Commons, and curated participants.
58 The Movement Creative
Parkour and the Pop-up
Playground
What if your playground grew up with
you? Pop-up is an interactive, all-ages par-
kour playground. Come out and play!
64 MTWTF
WAPR: Astor Place Radio
This self-guided audio tour will remateri-
alize the wildly diverse stories that shape
New York City’s Astor Place.
65 Municipal Art Society
of New York
Walking Tour:
“On and Off the Bowery”
Tours will explore a short section of the
Bowery, highlighting the past, present, and
future of the storied thoroughfare that was
one of New York City’s first streets. The
tours will be leaving at 12 p.m. and 2 p.m.
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Corroboree
“The Giant” with
endangered-language
activist Bob Holman
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d’Histoire Naturelle
de Paris
A Pigeon’s Perspective
This walk will explain the presence of
pigeons on the Lower East Side scientifically,
historically, and culturally. Their ubiquity
reveals as much about human ideology as it
does about bird behavior. The tours will be
leaving from the Shared Tour Hub in Sara
D. Roosevelt Park at 1:30 p.m. and 3 p.m.
21 Naturally Occurring
Cultural Districts New
York (NOCD-NY)
Underground Justice:
a Five Borough Perspective
Through conversations and performances,
NOCD-NY with El Puente will explore
how racial and spatial (in)visibility is
being challenged by artists across the five
boroughs.
43 New Museum
Education Department
Collecting Memories
Celebrate the New Museum’s history and
inaugural 1977 exhibition “Memory” by
participating in a related interactive photo
booth and other art activities.
44 New York City
Department of Design
and Construction
Visually Impaired Way-finding
Through Construction Zones
The New York City Department of Design
and Construction will present research and
design strategies from the Cooper Union
undergraduate students at an exhibition
on visually impaired way-finding through
construction zones.
67 New York City
Housing Authority
Out in Public
Step out on a walking tour of public
housing, including the nation’s first public
housing development tucked into the East
Village and a full-service senior building.
The tours will be leaving from the Shared
Tour Hub in Sara D. Roosevelt Park at
12:30 p.m. and 2:30 p.m.
54 The New York City
Urban Debate League
IDEAS CITY Youth
Debate Tournament
We believe that every school should have a
debate team and that every student should
have access to the best debate education
opportunities.
62 NYC Compost Project
Hosted by the Lower East
Side Ecology Center
Bin Build!
Help the NYC Compost Project build a
three-celled compost bin, and learn about
the various composting options available in
New York City to reduce your waste!
61 NYC Parks
Trees Count! 2015
NYC Parks will teach participants about
the citywide street-tree census and engage
participants in mapping street trees.
67 NYU ITP, NYU CUSP,
MIT DUSP
City Sensing Bike Tour
Join a short, slow cycling tour of new
downtown sensors, try wearing some of
them, and see what your own data looks
like! The tour will be leaving from the
Shared Tour Hub in Sara D. Roosevelt
Park at 5:15 p.m.
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Research Team
(the New School) and
Playable Media Lab
(Sarah Lawrence College)
Let’s SEE the Trash!
This mobile augmented-reality app is
designed to raise awareness of garbage
and waste in the immediate area of the
Festival.
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The Sketchbook Project
Mobile Library
The Sketchbook Project's Mobile Library
will give public access to four thousand–
plus original sketchbooks created by people
of all ages and backgrounds worldwide.
3 Solar One
The Peril the Wind Sings to:
Making Electricity Visible
Solar One will present an exhibition of
objects and activities to demonstrate how
electricity works, from fruit-powered bat-
teries to the Tesla coil.
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The Invisible Lunch Discussions
Artist Marjetica Potrč and her Design for the
Living World students at HFBK Hamburg will
invite incognito speakers to address affordable
housing and food at a 100-foot-long table.
Photo: Design for the Living World, Gerichte auf Tischen [Meals on Tables],
Regionale 12, St.Lambrecht, Austria. Photo courtesy Design for the Living World
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Games Resource Center
(TAG) with Gina Haraszti
and Pierson Browne
MINDCRAFT
A hacked version of the famous game
Minecraft will encourage the audience to
think about the questions surrounding the
creation and destruction of cities, civiliza-
tions, and societies.
29 Transportation
Alternatives
Free Bike Valet
Transportation Alternatives advocates for
more bike lanes, safer streets for pedes-
trians, and affordable public transporta-
tion. Our free bike valet service works like
a coat check...for your bike!
49 Storefront for Art
and Architecture
Plush
Plush is a mobile yet immersive space of
love and secrets, created by Maria Lynch
and Daniel Perlin, that will contain reactive
sounds embedded within its soft, dreamlike
environment.
50 Storefront for Art
and Architecture and
the Clemente Soto
Vélez Cultural and
Educational Center with
Jonah Bokaer
Speechbuster Parade
The Speechbuster, a mobile table with indi-
vidual pieces that create various configura-
tions, will travel in a procession throughout
the streets of the IDEAS CITY Festival.
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“Foamspace”
Winner of the 2015 IDEAS CITY Street Architecture
Prize, “Foamspace” is a mobile work of architecture
and a digital platform of financial tools that will allow
members to propose and vote on the next iterations.
55 Two Bridges
Neighborhood Council
Beyond the Grid and the
Cooper Lumen
What if the power didn’t go out during
Hurricane Sandy? Experience an innova-
tive and resilient energy and communica-
tions network designed to serve diverse
community needs.
26 The Uni Project
The Uni Portable Public
Reading Room
Come sit, read, draw, and explore a curated
collection of books and hands-on materials
at the Uni, a portable reading room for
public space.
28 Visual AIDS
Undetectability Mapping
Exercise
We will coordinate an artist-led mapping
exercise for the public about the HIV
serostatus “undetectable” while displaying
artist-created lenticular lightboxes and
distributing lenticular cards about undetec-
tability.
67 Woodward Gallery and
Gotham SideWalks
Street/Art, Lower East Side:
An Interactive Community
Art Walk
This neighborhood art tour will bring
together the anonymous world of street
art with the white-hot local gallery scene.
Meet key art players. Expect the unex-
pected. The tour will be leaving from the
Shared Tour Hub in Sara D. Roosevelt
Park at 4 p.m.
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Sat. 3:30–4:15 PM
Art in Odd Places:
RECALL/11 Years
Art in Odd Places was conceived in New
York City in 2005 to assert and exercise civil
liberties and engagement through art in
public space—without seeking permission.
Sat. 4:30–4:45 PM
Photosynthesis Projects/
Karla Stingerstein
with Mary Mattingly
Biotope
Karla Stingerstein will present Biotope, an
eco-specific sculpture of flora for fauna that
supports wildlife habitats in Philadelphia
by stewarding damaged riparian zones.
Biotope will be on view 12–6 p.m.
Sat. 6–7:30 PM
ETH Zurich and AIA
New York Chapter
“In the future, there will be no
waste…”
Dirk Hebel and Philippe Block of ETH
Zurich will join David Benjamin and Mark
Wasiuta of Columbia University’s Gra-
duate School of Architecture, Planning and
Preservation in conversation. Together, they
will consider how we can navigate design
methodologies and ethical practice in the
quest for the future smart city.
Registration recommended.
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Sat. 1–1:40 PM
TYTHEdesign
Hear the Unheard
This interactive workshop will introduce
community engagement techniques to the
public and offer tips on how to uncover the
voices in your community.
Sat. 2–2:30 PM
Y Gallery
Invisible Cities: On the Work of
Raquel Rabinovich and Monika
Bravo
In this conversation with critic Ann McCoy
and professor Carla Stellweg, artists
Monika Bravo and Raquel Rabinovich
will discuss their work and its relation to
“invisible cities.”
Fri. 10 AM–6 PM
Workshops and Panel
Discussions
Workshops and panels will take place
throughout the day, with topics ranging from
“Surveillant Anxiety” to “Data & Social
Justice” to “Pipelines to Tech Empowerment”
to “How to PGP.”
RSVP is requested. Guests will be admitted on a
first-come, first-served basis, as capacity allows.
Fri. 8–10 PM
EMA Performance
A performance by experimental rock musician
EMA will engage the audience through sur-
reptitious portrait sketches writ large in an
immersive projection environment. RSVP is
requested. Guests will be admitted on a
first-come, first-served basis, as capacity allows.
Special Projects@IDEASCITY #IDEASCITY IDEAS-CITY.ORG Thu.– Sat. May 28–30
ETH Zurich brings a cutting-edge artifact of the future to the East
Village: a pavilion created from waste materials. Recasting “trash”
as a valuable asset, ETH Zurich Future Garden and Pavilion will
redefine the notion of waste, acknowledging its value as a resource
from which new cities can rise. Over the course of three days, ETH
Zurich Future Garden and Pavilion will host events, workshops, and
an exhibition outlining the future metropolis. Food and drinks will be
provided by Café Select.
The AIRBNB Pavilion will host a livestreamed
salon in a rented apartment to discuss contem-
porary domesticity, interior decoration, and
housing rights in post-Airbnb New York City.
Livestream and chat will be available at rhizome.org. Livestream viewing
sessions will be held at University Settlement at the Houston Street
Center, 273 Bowery. Availability is limited. For information and
reservations, please email info@rhizome.org.Location: First Street Garden enter at the corner of East Houston Street and 2nd Avenue
Information: Free and open to the public. Check back for updates on programming,
times, and information about how to RSVP here: ethmeetsyou.org #ETHMeetsYou
Schedule: Open Thursday May 28–Saturday May 30, 11 AM–10 PM
Sat. 12–6 PM
Y Gallery
Maurício Ianês: Expansion
During the performance Expansion, artist
Maurício Ianês will invite the public to deve-
lop a communal practice of cultural, artistic,
and knowledge exchange.
Sat. 12–6 PM
Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts
Bookstore Project BLACK-
NUSS: Books + Other Relics
Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts and Publication Studio
Hudson will set up an on-demand printing
station showcasing the hand-bound pamphlet
series “On the Blackness of BLACKNUSS.
Sat. 12–12:40 PM
Asian American Arts
Centre and the
Cultural Equity Group
of New York City
Hinterland Arts
Artists and Cultural Equity Group
members will come together to speak
about New York City’s cultural plan and
the increasingly important role of the art
and culture of the city’s diverse neighbo-
rhoods and communities.
Sat. 1 PM and 3 PM
Ingrid Burrington
Internet Infrastructure Walking Tour
This walking tour will teach participants
how to spot fiber optic cables, cell towers,
carrier hotels, and other network in-
frastructure in cities. RSVP required.
AIRBNB Pavilion, Stay With Me, 2015. Digital image. Courtesy the artists
Photo: Examples of telecommunications cable markings,
New York City, 2014. Photo: Ingrid Burrington
Special Projects May 28–30, 2015
Fri. 9–10 AM
ETH Zurich, miLES, and
PareUp
Wasted Food x Wasted Space:
A Morning Dialogue Over
Breakfast
These roundtable discussions will be led by
thought leaders on the causes of, challen-
ges to, and solutions for waste—from
wasted food to wasted space and anything
in between. A “rescued” breakfast will be
served during the event.
Fri. 12–8 PM
Swiss Think Tank W.I.R.E.,
ETH Zurich, and SAVIDA
Social Innovation in the Data Age
Inventing a Truly Smart City
How can digitalization contribute to social
innovation? Formulate your own ideas on
how to design a “truly smart city”—deve-
loping, building, and testing ideas in an
interdisciplinary and fast-paced prototyping
process. Registration recommended.
Sat. 12–6 PM
Thu. 9–10 PM
Drone Painting
Performance
The drone painting will be performed by Deep
Lab Founder and artist Addie Wagenknecht,
in collaboration with NEW INC member Dan
Moore and Becky Stern of Adafruit. No RSVP
required.
Sat. 2:45–3:15 PM
ETH Zurich
Meet the Future
Take a guided tour of ETH Zurich Pavi-
lion, meet its creators, and walk through
an exhibit of twenty-five building materials
produced from waste.
Registration recommended.
NEW INC and cyberfeminist research collective Deep Lab’s weeklong
residency will explore privacy, security, surveillance, anonymity,
and data aggregation, culminating in a drone painting performance,
network infrastructure walking tours, and more. Supported by
Microsoft Civic Innovation and Data & Society Research Institute.
These events are free and open to the public. Check back for updates
on programming, times, and information about how to RSVP here:
newinc.org/deep-lab

Founder Founding Supporter
Supporting Partner
Hotel Partners
Upcoming IDEAS CITY Global Conferences:
Media PartnerSpecial Thanks
New Museum (Founder)
The Architectural League of New York
Bowery Poetry Club
The Cooper Union
Storefront for Art and Architecture
The Drawing Center
The grant from Goldman Sachs Gives
is at the recommendation of
David B. Heller & Hermine Riegerl Heller.
Additional support is provided by
Manhattan Borough President A. Brewer,
New York City Department of
Parks & Recreation, and TD Charitable
Foundation.Volunteer support is made
possible through Goldman Sachs
Community TeamWorks.
The James New York
The Bowery Hotel
IDEAS CITY: Detroit 2015
Lead sponsor:
IDEAS CITY: Athens 2016
Presented by the New Museum
in partnership with the NEON
Foundation.
Lead Supporters
We would like to acknowledge the
following companies and individuals
for their support:
Anomaly, CitiView, Clemente Soto
Vélez Cultural and Educational Center,
David Diamond, Empire Entertainment,
FABCafe, First Street Green,
Hess is More, Kettle, Microsoft, Neo Neo,
Q+A Events and Production LLC,
Rooftop Films, St. Patrick’s Old
Cathedral, The They Co., Tiger Beer,
Uber, Whole Foods Market
Executive Committee

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