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Speak! Listen! Act!
Join our inspirational colleague and friend Professor Zenovia Toloudi this Saturday, Oct. 29th at 2pm to explore the use of design as a catalyst for public action!

http://blog.shiftboston.org/2016/10/speak-listen-act

A big week for SHIFTboston.
Treepods on CNN and featured on Bill Nye's Global Meltdown on National Geographic Channel Sunday:

http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/26/tech/pioneers-carbon-sink-geoengineering-climate-hack/index.html

http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/explorer/

Explorer Nat Geo's award-winning and longest-running show, Explorer, is back to bring you amazing stories and tackle provocative subjects that touch the core of human existence.

See the proposals for Boston's Living with Water Competition and vote for your favorite:

http://www.bostonlivingwithwater.org/submission-gallery

Curb the PHUBBING
http://www.npr.org/blogs/goatsandsoda/2014/10/14/351254666/forget-facebook-abandon-instagram-move-to-a-village

Forget Facebook, Abandon Instagram, Move To A Village People who live in a traditional village — that means a community of about 150 people — are far better off than the rest of us. The author of a new book explains "the village effect."

One of my most inspired contributors, a true visionary and two-time SHIFTboston competition finalist Anthony Dimari completes 'Undulated Inundation' a permanent land art installation commissioned as winner of the Riverscaping Competition Grant. I caught up with Anthony recently to learn more about his project, please read more here:

http://blog.shiftboston.org/2014/12/undulated-inundation-by-anthony-dimari

Join Kim Poliquin, Director of SHIFTboston, at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum tomorrow for a conversation with Lee Mingwei, a fascinating and truly engaging participatory installation artist from Taiwan and NYC. I will be hosting the conversation in the ISG library from 1-3pm. Hope to see you!

http://www.gardnermuseum.org/contemporary_art/artists/lee_mingwei

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum : Mingwei, Lee Born in Taiwan and currently living in New York City, Lee Mingwei creates both participatory installations, where strangers can explore issues of trust, intimacy, and self- awareness on their own, and one-on-one events, where visitors explore these issues with the artist himself through eating, slee…

Have you seen the twinkling sky in the Fenway?
http://blog.shiftboston.org/2014/10/a-web-of-sparkle-wonder-in-evans-way-park-for-opening-our-doors-14

SHIFTboston blog» Blog Archive » A Web of Sparkle + Wonder in Evans Way Park for Opening Our... Have you seen the twinkling sky in Evans Way Park? I passed near sunset and was mesmerized by what appeared to be a milky-way of tiny dancing stars– I’ve not seen anything quite like this!

Nicky Enriquez ()
4/29/14
SHIFTboston Hydra
"This Hydra has some GRIT." pic.twitter.com/BK8zRhe794