Growing Public Space with Interactive Art

Kawandeep Virdee • @whichlight

New American Public Art

CultureNOW, Boston February 2015

meaning from...

interactivity

agency

creativity

Bring people together

Make a space more welcoming

Be expressive

Experiments in interactive interfaces

Opportunities to connect to a space

We can design new ways for people to engage with public spaces

New and underrepresented narratives can be surfaced and expressed

Visibility is voice

Being able to "touch"

across public space

over the internet

between digital and physical

We can widen the commons

and make it more welcoming

Activated public space gives new ways to know one another

new ways to be expressive and playful

new ways to find joy.

thanks

@whichlight

with

New American Public Art - dan sternof beyer, bevan weissman, brandon stafford, greg macglashing

goodgood - ben gaydos, karen stein shanley, and matthew shanley