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Hey friends,
Happy Monday! It's that time of the week again to preuse over all the happenings that NYC has to offer. So here's more to add to your inspiring and fruitful week.

Cheers,

Brielle

Tuesday, September 27

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6pm Sarah Rich, “Tracing Footprints: Exploring the Intersection of Design, Technology, Cities and Food”

Sarah Rich will discuss the ways that food can be applied as a lens for understanding and shaping urban environments, and how design can be used to transform and improve food systems.

Where:

136 West 21 Street
New York, NY

Website

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6:30 Skillshare: Mind Mapping: Get Your Ideas Out of Your Head and Into Reality

Do you have an idea you know could be big if you could figure out how to bring it to life? Or a project with so many pieces you aren't sure where to start? Mind mapping is a powerful technique used by project teams and individuals to conquer overwhelm, organize and assess information and create action plans.

Where:

University Settlement at the Houston Street Center
273 Bowery, Bowery and Houston
New York, NY

Cost:
$25

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Wednesday, September 28

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3pm BMW Guggenheim Lab: Mapping the Distributed Self by spurse

Can paying attention to our moods help us rethink the self? Can we develop a different view of the self—a self that extends beyond our skin, out into the surrounding environment? One that is distributed and woven into the environment? In this workshop, led by creative consulting and design collaborative spurse, participants will use wayfinding and psychogeographic exercises to evolve a model of the self as a combination of mind, body, and environment.

Where:

BMW Guggenheim Lab
Houston St at 2nd Ave,

Website

6:30pm The Role of Certification in the Socially Conscious Economy

You won't want to miss this panel discussion on the role of certification in the socially conscious economy. Joleen Ong of Social Accountability International, Nathan Gilbert of B Lab, Soledad Milius of STR Responsible Sourcing, and Teresa Baxter of HandCrafting Justice will join us to lay out and analyze the present situation of socially responsible certification and reporting as well as consider what developments still must occur in order to achieve an economy that guarantees all a high level of well-being.

Where:
Vig Bar
12 Spring St, New York, NY

RSVP

Thursday, September 29 No events

Friday, September 30

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7pm Love Night

New insights in brain science suggest that we are hard-wired for altruism and trust—even among strangers. We invite neuroscientist Paul Zak, psychologist Emanuele Castano, and Kio Stark of NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program to help design a party that will bring out the love in even the most hardened New Yorker. Join us for a night of experiments in trust, play, and radical conviviality.

Where:

BMW Guggenheim Lab
Houston St at 2nd Ave,

Website

Upcoming Events

October 3rd "Be" - Change the World Through Design

Social innovation is one of the most dynamic, expansive and exciting fields of endeavor today – with the capacity to change how we work, what we work on and how we live. Some people are calling it the beginning of a new economy. Design has the potential to be the most powerful integrating force in Social Innovation. Find out how the tools and process of design can be used to help you turn your good intentions, and your great ideas, into positive impact.

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October 5th Design thinking techniques for non-profits & entrepreneurs

Design thinking can be used to solve real world problems and is a technique that can be used by design or non-designer to approaches every day challenges.

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