Stories from the field
121 accounts of what actually happened when people tried these practices — in their own words, with their names on them. The short ones live here whole; the longer ones open into their own pages.
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596 Acres: Signs on Fences
Paula Z. Segal obtained a New York City spreadsheet listing all publicly owned vacant land in Brooklyn — 596 acres of it — and did two things with it. The expected one: put it online as a map (which grew into Living Lots NYC). And the brilliant one:…
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Adopt-a-Hydrant and Its Descendants
In 2011, Code for America fellow Erik Michaels-Ober built Adopt-a-Hydrant for Boston: a map of the city's fire hydrants where a resident could claim one and pledge to shovel it out after snowstorms. That's the whole app. It encoded exactly one civic…
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After the Assault
A participatory project with sexual assault survivors, law enforcement, and advocates, co-created through listening and decision sessions over time. It produced a seven-part podcast, broadcast features, a county reporting guide, and a conversation kit to help others support survivors.
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An Accelerator for Community Builders
<p>Colton Heward-Mills grew up in New Jersey among Ghanaian immigrants — he had, as he puts it, an abundance of aunties. People in his life who knew him and cared about him, beyond just his parents. Saumya Gupta grew up in India, moved nine times as a kid,…
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An Outer Sunset Story
<div class="space-y-4"> <p class="text-base leading-relaxed">Looking across the street in January, I wanted to know my neighbors. I wanted them to know me. I wanted them to know I cared about them, and I wanted to know they cared about my kids. It felt…
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Asking for Help, Offering Support
Some neighbors admit they've been hesitant to ask for help. They build a small system to share needs and offers—borrowing gear, installing solar panels together, even sharing small loans. Trust deepens as generosity circulates.
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Asset-Framing Post-It Notes
At a community listening session, organizers put out Post-it notes with asset-framing prompts like 'What do you love about your community?' to surface pride and give reporters positive community assets to draw on even when covering hard topics.
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Barbershop Talk
Free haircuts in exchange for conversations about civic engagement and entrepreneurship, connecting young Black men with relatable mentors in a familiar, trusted setting.
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Barcelona's Neighborhood Budget: Hybrid by Design
Barcelona's 2020–2023 participatory budget dedicated €30 million to fund the most-voted neighborhood proposals in each of the city's districts, run on Decidim — the open-source platform the city itself birthed. Residents drafted geolocated proposals with…
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Beautiful News
Shares positive trends and uplifting statistics through elegant data visualizations.
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Bed-Stuy Strong: Slack, Airtable, and a Phone Number
In March 2020, Sarah Mathews posted a handmade sign in Bedford-Stuyvesant inviting neighbors into a Slack workspace. Within a week it held a thousand people; at its height, Bed-Stuy Strong moved about $1.2 million in grassroots donations into a week's…
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Boston Ujima Project
<p>Before the Boston Ujima Project officially launched in 2017, its creators spent years hosting study circles and discussion groups in Roxbury, Dorchester, Jamaica Plain, and Mattapan — predominantly working-class communities of color — hashing out how an…
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Boulder Reporting Lab Pop-Up Newsroom
After the 2021 Marshall Fire, a small newsroom ran a pop-up community newsroom to harness local expertise and fill information gaps, and published a replication toolkit.
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Bradley Street Bicycle Co-op, New Haven
<p>The Bradley Street Bicycle Co-op started with a serendipitous encounter. In 2015, John Martin — an architect by training — was refurbishing a brick building at 138 Bradley Street in New Haven's East Rock neighborhood. The building had been his father's —…
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COPS: A Thousand Conversations Before the First Meeting
Communities Organized for Public Service was not founded at its founding convention. It was founded in more than a thousand one-on-one relational meetings that Ernesto Cortés Jr., freshly trained by the Industrial Areas Foundation, ran through the Catholic…
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Camerados and Public Living Rooms
<p>Maff Potts had spent years as CEO of various charities in the UK, working on homelessness, domestic abuse, and social isolation. What he kept noticing was that traditional approaches addressed symptoms but missed root causes. The two things every person…
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Car Free Megacities
A campaign to reimagine cities as private-car-free and build policy and public support, including a 'Car Free Stories' report series of people-friendly, clean-air city case studies.
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Citizens' Assemblies: From Ancient Athens to Your Town Hall
<p>The idea that a randomly selected group of ordinary citizens can make better decisions than elected officials sounds radical until you realize it's one of the oldest ideas in democracy. Athenian democracy ran on sortition — selection by lottery — for most…
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City Repair and Intersection Painting, Portland
<p>In the mid-1990s, architect Mark Lakeman returned from villages in Central America where residents gathered in common spaces at the center of their communities. He looked at his own neighborhood in Portland, Oregon — the Sellwood neighborhood — and saw…
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Community Bulletin of the CCC of NC
A Khmer-language bulletin providing vaccine information, produced by a cultural center and the city to reach the community in the most effective language and style.
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Community Help Desk
Viewers file 'tickets' with information needs; the station answers, builds FAQs, and turns tickets into stories, reframing local news as a service that responds to what residents need to know.
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Community Mapping
Reporters set up tables with printed maps and asked residents to draw their neighborhood's boundaries, using it as a conversation starter and a window into how locals understand their place.
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Community Newsroom
A shared physical space for training, workshops, drop-ins, town halls, an FOI club, and screenings, with co-working desks and podcast/video facilities, letting journalists work alongside community organizations.
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Community Sports Reporting
Lets thin-resourced newsrooms partner with parents, coaches, and athletic directors to cover high school sports via SMS reminders and simple forms that convert submissions into draft stories.
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Community Supplies
A handful of neighbors realize they don't need to each buy everything. They start pooling ladders, tools, and tents through a simple directory. Before long, it feels less like borrowing and more like building together.
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Complaints Choir
A choir that sings democratically chosen community complaints, turning grievance into something creative and communal. A nine-step guide exists; a newsroom could adapt it around specific issues with responses from officials.
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Cool Block
<p>David Gershon had spent decades studying how to change behavior at scale when he arrived at a deceptively simple insight: the block — the eight or so households that share a stretch of sidewalk — might be the most powerful unit of social change. He…
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Crafting Tech as Care
Neighbors push back against the false choice between tech utopia and tech doom. They find a third way: building tech as acts of care, enabling relationships rather than replacing them.
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Darebin Participatory Budgeting
<p>Darebin is a municipality in Melbourne's northern suburbs — diverse, working-class, and not the kind of place that usually makes headlines for democratic innovation. In 2014, the city council had two million dollars in infrastructure funding and a…
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DavisWiki: The Town That Wrote Itself Down
In June 2004, housemates Philip Neustrom, Mike Ivanov, and Paul Ivanov sketched an idea over burritos: an openly editable encyclopedia of Davis, California — everything local, from bike-route lore and burrito rankings to city council politics and…
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Democracy 101
A bilingual event for Latinos and Pascua Yaqui tribe members mixing culture, arts, food, and experts to inform people about elections, combat misinformation, and build trust.
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Denver Community Museum
A temporary storefront museum (2008-2009) with monthly community-generated exhibitions built from open creative challenges; each month displayed the prior month's submissions.
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Desi-Connect
A WhatsApp network for the Indian diaspora to share resources and event info and connect, meeting people on the platform they already use heavily.
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Developing In-Person Content Formats
A quarterly series ('Social Studies') that moved in-depth journalism into live, recorded events, letting reporters present material that wouldn't fit in print and partner with nonprofits, giving reporting a second life.
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Disfactory: Anonymity as a Relational Design Choice
Taiwan was losing roughly 1,500 hectares of farmland a year to illegal factory construction, and the official reporting process required citizens to attach their personal identification — which meant reporting the factory often meant reporting your neighbor,…
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Dudley Street: 'How Many of You Live in This Neighborhood?'
By the early 1980s, arson-for-insurance and disinvestment had left about 1,300 vacant parcels — a fifth of the land — in Boston's Dudley Street neighborhood, which outsiders used as an illegal dump. Foundations and agencies arrived with a revitalization…
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E-Democracy: The Forums Built by Door-Knocking
Steven Clift's E-Democracy.org — a pioneer of online civic space since 1994 — launched neighborhood Issues Forums across Minneapolis–St. Paul starting in 2007, including in Cedar-Riverside, a neighborhood of about 7,500 residents where thousands of Somali…
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East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative, Oakland
<p>In 2017, residents of an Oakland apartment complex learned their landlord had put their building on the open market. Facing displacement in one of America's most expensive housing markets, they approached a new organization: the East Bay Permanent Real…
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Edmonton's Community League System
<p>In 1917, residents of a neighborhood in Edmonton, Alberta, formed the city's first community league. By 1921, nine leagues existed, and the Edmonton Federation of Community Leagues was established to support them. Today, virtually every residential…
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FYLPRO COVID-19 Task Force
A Tagalog information phone line for older Filipino residents who were scared and confused during the COVID lockdown.
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Flatpack Democracy, Frome, England
<p>The legend — which happens to be true — is that it started in a pub. A group of locals in Frome, a small town in Somerset, England, had been meeting as regulars over the course of many evenings, united primarily by their dissatisfaction with the local…
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France's Convention Citoyenne pour le Climat
<p>In the autumn of 2018, the Gilets Jaunes — Yellow Vests — erupted across France. Hundreds of thousands of people, many from rural and peri-urban areas, blocked roundabouts and marched against a fuel tax that President Macron had framed as essential for…
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Give Us Your Two Cents
At an events booth, people drop pennies into topic-labeled containers to 'give their two cents' on what local news should cover.
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Greene Street
A study of the 486-foot strip of Greene Street, tracing the historic development of one block in one of the world's richest neighborhoods.
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Grow Food Northampton, Massachusetts
<p>Grow Food Northampton began with a community raising $670,000 to purchase 121 acres of farmland — an act of collective investment in a vision of local food sovereignty. The land now hosts a community farm where ten small farms and farming collectives…
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How to Make (and Celebrate) a Podcast with Community
A 250-person celebration of the 'Making Meadowview' documentary podcast with 25 info booths, dance performances, and history presentations; the podcast itself grew from a year of relationship-building.
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Inclusive Local Ancestry Posters
Families submitted a short story and photos of an ancestor and descendant; volunteers curated and printed vinyl banners displayed neighborhood-facing, fostering inclusive belonging, pride, and dignity. First shown 2017, with later rounds.
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Invisible Cities
Trains people who have experienced homelessness to become storytellers and walking-tour guides in their own cities, challenging stereotypes and creating opportunity. Founded 2016.
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Ireland's Citizens' Assembly on the Eighth Amendment
<p>For decades, Ireland's politicians refused to touch abortion law. The Eighth Amendment to the Constitution, passed by referendum in 1983, gave equal right to life to the mother and the unborn — making Ireland one of the most restrictive countries in…
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Jesse Evers and Highside Workshop, Brooklyn
<p>For a few years, Jesse Evers ran a space in Brooklyn called Highside Workshop. It was a multipurpose warehouse that hosted concerts, art galleries, motorcycle repair workshops, tattoo popups, band practices, and people just hanging out. He estimates they…
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KALW Voter Turnout Project
Identified five lowest-turnout neighborhoods and distributed door hangers describing what was on the ballot and where to learn more and vote.
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KC Tenants: Evicted People Run the Union
In 2019, Tara Raghuveer came home to Kansas City after researching its eviction crisis and started doing what the research couldn't: meeting tenants. Among the first was Tiana Caldwell, who with her husband and son had been evicted in late 2018 while she…
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Lamplight Summer Camp
<p>Daniel Marshall's grandfather, D.C. Waid, built a cabin on Lake Guntersville in the 1950s. Decades later, Daniel — a social studies teacher from Southern California who'd landed in New York — was given a book by his mentor: <em>The Long Haul</em>, the…
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Large Lots: The $1 Lot and the One-Page Form
Chicago's Large Lots program began in Englewood, where Demond Drummer at Teamwork Englewood pushed a community-planning insight to its logical end: the city owned thousands of vacant lots on Black South and West Side blocks, residents wanted them, and the…
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Living Room Conversations
<p>Joan Blades knows something about political intensity. In 1998, she and her husband sent an online petition urging Congress to censure President Clinton and move on to pressing issues. It went viral before viral was a word, gathering half a million…
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Lunch & Listens
Journalists introduce themselves over a meal, learn community values and needs, and set up structures for ongoing listening, letting residents shape editorial direction.
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MAMAS: Pods, Phone Trees, and Spreadsheets
Mutual Aid Medford and Somerville (MAMAS) was started in March 2020 by a group of friends in their twenties — Hannah Freedman, Sophia Grogan, Miriam Priven, and Anna Kaplan — and became one of the Boston area's most effective COVID networks using a stack any…
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Meadowview Community Fair
A fair showcasing activities reporters and residents can do together to build knowledge and relationships for the editorial process.
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Melbourne People's Panel
<p>In 2014, Melbourne's city government faced a familiar problem: it needed to plan a decade's worth of spending — roughly five billion dollars — and the standard public consultation process was broken. Council meetings drew the same handful of vocal…
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Memories of the Market
A photo booth built to fit the flea market, gathering stories from patrons and vendors to inform reporting and build trust, while spotlighting an institution that reflects the area's diversity.
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Moms 4 Housing: The Vacant House on Magnolia Street
In November 2019, a group of homeless and marginally housed Black mothers — publicly led by Dominique Walker, with organizer Carroll Fife alongside — moved into a vacant house at 2928 Magnolia Street in West Oakland. The house belonged to Wedgewood Inc., a…
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Montgomery: 381 Days of Bus Fare
In December 1955, Black residents of Montgomery, Alabama — forced to sit at the back of segregated buses and surrender seats to white passengers — began refusing to ride. The boycott held for 381 days, deprived the bus system of most of its riders' fares,…
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My Oakland Agenda
Sidewalk and event pop-ups asked Oaklanders 'If you were an elected official, what would your first act be?'; responses were synthesized into a community agenda shared with officials. Ran 2022 and 2024.
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Nate Tubbs and The Island, Chicago
<p>In 2016, Nate Tubbs and his family moved to The Island — a micro-neighborhood on Chicago's West Side that sits at the intersection of three large and very different communities. Nate is a communications professional and community organizer who had worked…
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NeighborCircles, Lawrence, Massachusetts
<p>Lawrence, Massachusetts, is a city that has been underinvested in for decades — a former mill town where civic disengagement had become the norm rather than the exception. Lawrence CommunityWorks, a community development corporation, responded with a…
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Neighborhood Teams: The Snowflake at National Scale
In 2007, Marshall Ganz and colleagues designed a volunteer architecture for the Obama campaign that ran directly on the practices of this shelf: multi-day 'Camp Obama' trainings where volunteers learned to tell a story of self, us, and now — then organized…
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Neighborland
A platform for agencies, place-makers, and civic groups to collaborate on neighborhood development; 3M participants; acquired by Nextdoor in 2019. Operated 2010-2023.
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Networks Beyond Borders
Starting with NYC street vendors, traces the migration routes that brought them to the city and the economic networks that operate beyond nation-states.
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Nuns, Nones, and Sacred Hospitality
<p>Casper ter Kuile had spent years studying how people — especially younger people — were leaving institutional religion but still hungering for spiritual community. As co-founder of the Sacred Design Lab, he was exploring what 21st-century spiritual…
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Oakland Lowdown: Endless Storefronts
Talked to owners, organizers, residents, and brokers to understand empty storefronts from all angles, then documented findings in their own large sidewalk windows to support efforts to reverse vacancies.
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Outer Sunset Field Guide
<p>Folks in the Outer Sunset kept asking for a self-guided history walking tour. The idea showed up multiple times in neighborhood meeting notes, so one neighbor decided to stop workshopping and start building. Inspired by a local history archive and some…
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Parent Mentors: The Program Where the Win Is the People
In 1995, Chicago's Logan Square Neighborhood Association — schooled by years of anti-displacement fights — launched a program disarming in its simplicity: parents work two hours a day in their children's classrooms, a hundred-plus hours a semester, with a…
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Parklets for Communities
A toolkit for creating parklets, small parks in parking spots, as part of climate-action public engagement.
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Participatory Investigation Process
Lets people directly affected by issues raise challenges, then supports them to investigate at scale for high-profile impact, shifting power in the process.
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People's Supper
Builds trust across difference over dinner; 10,000+ people in 100+ cities since 2017, in partnership with local government, faith groups, colleges, and workplaces, asking 'What needs healing here?'
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Poetry for the People
Empowers students to speak with clarity and urgency and builds supportive community for hearing each other; also taught in prisons and at Glide Memorial, with public readings and published anthologies.
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Porchfest, Ithaca to Everywhere
<p>In 2007, in Ithaca, New York, Lesley Greene and her husband were playing ukuleles on their front steps when a neighbor — Gretchen Hildreth — walked by. They got to talking about how nice it was to hear music outside. They looked around their neighborhood…
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Prison Journalism Project Collections
Trains incarcerated writers to be their own journalists and publishes Collections of advice and lived experience, building reentry skills and advocating for criminal justice reform.
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Promise Tracker
Boiled progress on the mayor's promise to house 17,000 Angelenos down to a few trackable metrics so anyone could answer, at any moment, whether the administration was making progress.
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Public Source Community Zine
A short, tangible neighborhood zine of stories, reflections, and resources made with and for a specific community, meant to reach people offline and feel approachable and grounded.
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Public Source Points of Pride
An asset-framing initiative mapping community strengths in underresourced areas, with an interactive resource map, photo stories, and reported features on the people and institutions that make the community strong.
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Radio Ambulante Listening Clubs
Listener-organized events to hear podcasts together and discuss, strengthening relationships and empathy, with light-touch facilitation guides provided by the show.
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Red Hook WiFi: The Network That Held When Sandy Hit
The Red Hook Initiative — a youth nonprofit in a low-lying, geographically isolated Brooklyn neighborhood dominated by the Red Hook Houses — began building a small rooftop mesh network in November 2011 with the Open Technology Institute, running open-source…
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Repair Cafe
<p>In 2009, Martine Postma — a Dutch journalist who had been writing about sustainability and waste reduction — attended an art exhibition on repair and was so inspired that she organized the world's first Repair Cafe in Amsterdam. The idea was simple:…
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Sal Si Puedes: The House Meeting That Found Cesar Chavez
Fred Ross Sr. spent the late 1940s organizing Mexican-American communities across Southern California for the Community Service Organization, refining a deceptively simple instrument: the **house meeting** — a small gathering in someone's living room, hosted…
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Sandy Storyline
Used storytelling to amplify community voices during the multi-year rebuilding after Hurricane Sandy, centering residents in decisions reshaping land, water, and energy.
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Savannah Kruger and The Neighborhood Accelerator, Boulder
<p>Savannah Kruger and her partner Jon Bo lived in a 31-unit apartment building in Boulder, Colorado, and knew almost nobody in it. The loneliness of proximity — surrounded by neighbors but disconnected from all of them — was the starting condition for what…
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Savannah's Grants for Blocks
In 1993, Savannah's assistant city manager Henry Moore did something unusual with a $20,000 Ford Foundation grant: he asked residents what to do with it. The answer became **Grants for Blocks**: grants of up to $500 to groups of neighbors on a block, for…
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Snowmageddon Cleanup: One Neighbor, One Weekend, One Map
When back-to-back blizzards dropped nearly three feet of snow on Washington DC in February 2010 and shut the federal government, Ryan Ozimek — a Dupont Circle resident who ran a nonprofit-sector web firm — stood up an Ushahidi deployment to coordinate his…
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Sound OFF
Semi-facilitated small-group conversations in a welcoming space (food required, childcare ideally), where the discussion itself is the goal and story ideas or information needs are 'the icing.'
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South Australia Citizens' Jury on Nuclear Waste
<p>In 2016, the government of South Australia faced a question most politicians would rather avoid: should the state accept and store nuclear waste from other countries? A Royal Commission had produced a 318-page report recommending it. But the government…
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Story Circles
Structured deep-listening where participants share personal stories on a theme without interruption or advice, surfacing common ground across difference.
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Swapping Stories
Community members of different ages and backgrounds interview each other, then perform each other's stories on stage, building empathy and bridging across generations and backgrounds.
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The 49th Ward: America's First Participatory Budget
In November 2009, Alderman Joe Moore of Chicago's 49th Ward (Rogers Park) did something no US elected official had done: he turned his entire $1.3 million annual 'menu money' infrastructure budget over to his constituents, working with the Participatory…
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The Beautician and the Bus Driver
Myles Horton founded Highlander Folk School in Monteagle, Tennessee in 1932 — by the 1950s one of the only places in the segregated South where Black and white activists lived, ate, and planned together. Rosa Parks attended a two-week Highlander workshop in…
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The Block Connectors of Edmonton
In January 2013, Howard Lawrence launched an experiment on his own street in Edmonton's Highlands neighbourhood, explicitly inspired by McKnight and Block's 'The Abundant Community.' The architecture is small enough to memorize: one **neighbourhood…
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The Bushwick Collective, Brooklyn
<p>In 2012, Joseph Ficalora did something improbable in Bushwick, Brooklyn. He started inviting street artists — from around the world, from the legendary New York graffiti scene, and from the neighborhood itself — to paint the walls of industrial buildings…
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The Claypole Commons
<p>Growing up in Pittsburgh, D.J. Trischler noticed something interesting: the entire city was dressed in black and gold. Police cars, fire trucks, sports teams, bridges. Two regular old colors creating social cohesion across a whole city. That observation…
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The Daily Talk
A chalkboard daily newspaper delivering the latest news to locals without TV or internet access. Founded in 2012.
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The Five Sisters Forum: Slow by Design
In 2000, Michael and Valerie Wood-Lewis — new to Burlington, Vermont's Five Sisters neighborhood and wanting to meet neighbors — started an email list advertised with paper flyers slipped door to door. For six years Michael hand-compiled each day's five or…
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The Folded Map
<p>Chicago's North and South Sides have corresponding street addresses — the same numbers, mirrored across the city's dividing line. But the neighborhoods at those matching addresses often couldn't be more different. Decades of segregation, disinvestment,…
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The Grape Boycott: Farmworkers in Every City
On September 8, 1965, Filipino-American grape workers led by Larry Itliong's generation walked out at Delano, California; Cesar Chavez's largely Latino union voted to join them eight days later. The growers could outlast a strike in the fields. So the union…
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The Kindness Party
<p>In Brownsville, Brooklyn — home to about 100,000 people and the largest concentration of public housing in North America — Teju Ravilochan founded GatherFor on a deceptively simple belief: in community, we have everything we need.</p> <p>GatherFor…
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The Neighbor Gathering Microgrant
<p>It started as a refrain. Every time someone asked Sam Pressler, "What's one thing any community could do right now to strengthen local civic life?" he'd say some version of: every community should offer microgrants for neighbors to gather their neighbors.…
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The Pain Clinic
<p>Portsmouth, Ohio was ground zero of the opioid epidemic — the town where pill mills were invented. Factories had shut down, high-potency opioids were flooding in, and the community was devastated. By the mid-2000s, street corners were dangerous and hope…
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The Relational Commons
What emerges is not just one neighborhood but a commons—a braid of local builders sharing stories, templates, and wisdom. Each experiment enriches the soil for the next.
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The Roving Listener
Broadway United Methodist Church had run the programs a shrinking urban church is supposed to run — a summer program serving 250 kids a day among them. Then nine young men died violently within four blocks in nine months, some of them program alumni. Pastor…
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The School for Grassroots Leaders
<p>In Philadelphia, Hillary Do runs BOLT — an organization built on a conviction that leaders already exist in every neighborhood, even (and especially) the ones that outsiders have written off.</p> <p>BOLT supports grassroots leaders through two core…
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The Village Square, Tallahassee
<p>In 2006, Liz Joyner — a clinical social worker trained in family systems theory — had been volunteering in Tallahassee politics long enough to reach a conclusion: the way Americans work out their disagreements in public is fundamentally broken. Not…
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The Wall of Wrigley Field
The brick right-field wall became a chalk memorial where fans wrote the names of Cubs fans who died before the team won a World Series.
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The Yes House, Granite Falls, Minnesota
<p>In early 2018, a local family in Granite Falls, Minnesota — a small town on the prairie — donated a vacant commercial building to the Department of Public Transformation, an artist-led nonprofit focused on rural revitalization through the arts. The family…
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Trade School, New York to Everywhere
<p>In 2009, a small group of people who ran a skills-sharing website called OurGoods — Rich Watts, Louise Ma, and Caroline Woolard — were given the opportunity to use a vacant shop on New York's Lower East Side. They had no budget and no institutional…
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Up the Block
A guide connecting anyone affected by or at risk of gun violence to services, support, and information, organized by need.
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Welcoming Newcomers
A new neighbor arrives feeling like an outsider at an already lively gathering. Hosts step up with thoughtful invitations, rituals, and relational tech to make landing softer and more joyful.
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Westminster Stories
Told one street's story through 100+ interviews, archives, and an interactive installation in an empty store window with weekly-changing labels, then a two-day street museum and a launch party for everyone interviewed. 2009-2010.
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What's On Your Ballot
Journalists present what's on the ballot, why it matters, and how to vote, centering voters rather than candidates.
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Yard Parties and Sweat Equity
<p>Before prison, Gerrel Jones never thought of being beneficial to anybody. Raised in a hostile environment, he became a hedonist. When he arrived in prison with a life sentence, he attempted suicide. But a life sentence makes you contemplative. While…
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Zinester's Guide to NYC
An on-the-cheap, opinionated insider guide to NYC with listings from 20+ local zine publishers, written from the perspective of people who live it.
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vTaiwan and Digital Democracy
<p>In 2014, Taiwan's Sunflower Movement — a wave of protests over controversial trade legislation with China — mobilized civil society in unprecedented ways. Among those who responded was g0v, a civic technology community founded in 2012 to promote digital…