Mission
The Festival of Ideas for the New City, May 4-8, 2011, is a major new collaborative initiative in New York involving scores of Downtown organizations, from universities to arts institutions and community groups, working together to effect change. A first for New York, the Festival will harness the power of the creative community to imagine the future city and explore the ideas destined to shape it. It will take place in multiple venues Downtown and is organized around three central programs: a conference of symposia; an innovative StreetFest along the Bowery; and over one hundred independent projects and public events. The Festival will serve as a platform for artists, writers, architects, engineers, designers, urban farmers, planners, and thought leaders to exchange ideas, propose solutions, and invite the public to participate.
Conference
A conference of symposia, lectures, and workshops with visionaries and leaders— including exemplary mayors, forecasters, architects, artists, economists, and technology experts—addressing the Festival themes: The Heterogeneous City; The Networked City; The Reconfigured City; and The Sustainable City. Events take place at The Cooper Union, New York University, and the New Museum, Wednesday to Saturday, May 4-7.
StreetFest
An innovative, minimal-waste, outdoor StreetFest takes place along the Bowery. 100+ local grassroots organizations and small businesses present model products and practices in a unique outdoor environment. Saturday, May 7, 11 a.m to 7 p.m.
Projects
100+ independent projects, events, performances, and walking tours that expand on the Festival’s themes, open at multiple venues Downtown, activating a broad geographic area. Projects are listed in chronological order and most events are free.
Organizing Partners
- New Museum (Founding Partner)
- Lisa Phillips
- Karen Wong
- The Architectural League
- Rosalie Genevro
- Bowery Poetry Club
- Bob Holman
- C-Lab/Columbia University
- Jeffrey Inaba
- Center for Architecture
- Rick Bell
- The Cooper Union
- Saskia Bos
- Anthony Vidler
- The Drawing Center
- Brett Littman
- NYU Wagner
- Rogan Kersh
- PARC Foundation
- David Deutsch
- Megan Wurth
- Storefront for Art and Architecture
- Eva Franch i Gilabert
- Swiss Institute
- Gianni Jetzer
Contact
info@festivalofideasnyc.com
press@festivalofideasnyc.com
212-219-1222
Festival of Ideas c/o New Museum
235 Bowery
New York, NY 10002
Festival Organizational Team
- Founding Festival Director
- Founding Festival Co-Director
- Festival Manager
- Conference organizers
- Conference coordinators
- StreetFest Manager
- StreetFest Coordinator
- StreetFest Task Force
- Festival Fellow
- Lisa Phillips
- Karen Wong
- Corinne Erni
- Richard Flood, New Museum; Rosalie Genevro; Rogan Kersh;
- Elizabeth O’Donnell, Cooper Union; Lisa Phillips; Anthony Vidler
- Adam Glick, Benjamin Godsill
- Annie Wachnicki
- Jody Kuh
- Justin Fowler and Jeffrey Inaba, C-Lab; Aimee Good, Drawing Center;
- Tamara Greenfield, Fourth Street Arts Block; Cassim Shepard,
- The Architectural League
- Tory Peterschild
Special thanks to the creative team at Droga 5; designers at NR2154; website designers at Barbarian Group;
PR team – Andrea Schwan, Gabriel Einsohn, Katie Kraft and Serious Business PR; our blog editors at C-Lab, Columbia;
our conference logistics team, Dalzell Productions, and the Bowery Hotel.
Participants
- Abrons Arts Center
- Aicon Gallery
- Allegra LaViola Gallery
- Alliance for the Arts
- Angel Orensanz Foundation
- Anne Apparu
- Anthology Film Archives
- The Architectural League
- Architizer
- Art Cart NYC™
- Art in Odd Places
- Art Loisaida Foundation
- Art Production Fund
- Art Since the Summer of ’69
- ArtHome
- Article22 and Project peaceBOMB
- Artists Alliance, Inc. (AAI)
- Asian American Writers’ Workshop
- Asian Americans for Equality, Inc.
- Audi Urban Future Initiative
- Basilica of St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral
- Baukunst Studio
- BIKE BOX
- Bowery Alliance of Neighbors
- Bowery Arts & Science
- Bowery Electric
- The Bowery Mission
- Bowery Poetry Club
- The Bowery Presents
- Broadcastr (A project of Electric Literature)
- Brooklyn Brew Shop
- Brooklyn Bridge Park
- Brooklyn Flea
- Brooklyn Grange Farm
- Brooklyn Soda Works
- The Brotherhood/Sister Sol
- Build It Green
- Bus Roots
- Cabinet Magazine
- Café Habana and Habana Works
- Center for Architecture
- Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP)
- Charles Bank Gallery
- Chinatown YMCA
- Choncho’s Tacos
- Christina Ray Gallery
- City Lore
- C-Lab, Columbia University
- Clayton Gallery and Outlaw Art Museum
- Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Educational Center
- Common Ground
- Community Board 3
- Conflux
- Contrail
- Cooper Square Committee
- The Cooper Union
- Creative Time
- Cuchifritos Project Space
- Culturehub
- Dance New Amsterdam
- Dia Art Foundation
- Dixon Place
- Dodge Gallery
- Dorian Grey Gallery
- Downtown Art
- The Drawing Center
- Eagle Street Rooftop Farm
- The Educational Alliance
- Elastic City
- Eleven Rivington
- Emergency Response Studio by Paul Villinski
- Etsy / The {New New}
- Eyebeam Art + Technology
- FAB Café
- The Fales Library at New York University
- FarmCity.US
- FEAST (Funding Emerging Art with Sustainable Tactics)
- The Film-Makers’ Cooperative
- FINE & RAW chocolate
- Fourth Arts Block (FAB)
- French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF), New York
- frosch&portmann
- FusionArts Museum
- Futurefarmers
- futureflair
- Ghana Think Tank
- GigMaven
- Goldie’s Soap
- GOLES—Good Old Lower East Side
- G.R.E.E.N.H.O.U.S.E. by Anne-Katrin Spiess
- Green Map System
- Green My Bodega and Foodshed Market
- Green Spaces
- GreenHomeNYC
- The Greenhorns
- Grey Art Gallery at New York University
- Growing Chefs
- GrowNYC / Greenmarket
- GrowNYC / Youthmarket
- Hadar Metal Design
- Hendershot Gallery
- Hester Street Collaborative
- The Hester Street Fair
- The Hole
- HoneybeeLives
- Hot Blondie’s Bakery
- Hot Bread Kitchen
- Housing Is A Human Right
- HOWL! Arts Inc.
- Hudson Valley Seed Library
- INABA
- Invisible Exports
- James Fuentes LLC
- Joe’s Pub at The Public Theater
- Kate Payne, HarperCollins Publishers, The Hip Girl’s
- Guide to Homemaking
- Kickstarter
- KINZ + TILLOU FINE ART
- Klaus Von Nichtssagend Gallery
- Kombucha Brooklyn
- Krause Gallery
- La Finca del Sur
- La MaMa Galleria
- The Laundromat Project
- Lesley Heller Workspace
- Lit Crawl NYC
- The Living Room
- Local Projects
- Lower East Side / Chinatown Bicycling Coalition
- Lower East Side Business Improvement District
- Lower East Side Ecology Center
- Lower East Side History Project
- Lower Eastside Girls Club
- Lu Magnus
- Meatless Monday
- Michael Mut Gallery
- Milk Truck
- Millennium Film Workshop
- The MoS Collective
- Mother-In-Law’s Kimchi
- Museum of Chinese in America
- New American Cinema Group, Inc.
- New Art Dealers Alliance / Big Screen Project
- New Museum
- New Museum G:Class and City-as-School
- New York City Department of Buildings
- New York City Department of Parks & Recreation
- New York City Department of Transportation
- No Longer Empty
- Not Eating Out In NY
- Nuit Blanche New York
- Number 35 Gallery
- NY Studio Gallery
- NYU Wagner
- Our Other Location
- OurGoods
- PARC Foundation
- Participant Inc.
- Pecha Kucha
- People’s Pops
- Performa
- Performance Space 122
- Pop-Up Adventure Play
- Project For Empty Space
- ReadyMade
- Recess Activities, Inc.
- Red Hook Lobster Pound
- Rhizome
- Rick’s Picks
- Rockwell Group
- Romanian Cultural Institute in New York
- Safari 7
- Salon 94
- Salon 94 Freemans
- Scaramouche NY
- The School of Art at The Cooper Union
- SCRATCHbread
- Seeding the City
- Sloan Fine Art
- SmartSpaces
- Social Bicycles
- Solar Alignment Walk
- Solar One
- Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
- Spacebuster by Raumlabor
- Sperone Westwater
- Storefront for Art and Architecture
- StoryCorps in collaboration with KQED
- Sue Scott Gallery
- Susan Teller Gallery
- Sweetery NYC Inc.
- Swiss Institute
- Tally Beck Contemporary
- Tenth Acre Farms
- Theater for the New City
- The They Co.
- Thirstea
- Transportation Alternatives
- Travelgoat
- Truck Farm / Wicked Delicate Films
- Trust Art
- Two Bridges Neighborhood Council
- Umbrella Arts Gallery
- The Underground Library
- University Settlement
- Visual AIDS
- White Box
- Windowfarms
- Works In Progress NYC
- Y Gallery
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