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Join us in creating a book for the future
DIY DAYS is all about discovery and collaboration. A testing ground for participatory storytelling and design science. In an open experiment, we’ve decided to log the events of DIY DAYS and encourage attendees to help us curate the future. In order to do so we’ve created a Book Sprint. With our Book Sprint, we are going beyond [...]
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Attendee Profile: Playing With Reality
for the lead up to the big day, we decided to contact some of the people who are planning on attending the event to learn about their work and what they plan on taking away from the conference. Five Questions With Carolyn McCandish What’s your background? I’m a member of Playing with Reality (playingwithreality.org), [...]
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Gaming as a tool to create change
Five Questions With Errol King What will you be doing at DIY DAYS? I’ll be play testing and prototyping a board game currently titled “Occupy!”. It is a cooperative game where four or more players work together to build a successful movement. It teaches the general principles and mechanics of the occupy movement [...]
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Gaming as an Approach to Sophisticated Content and Emotions
5 Questions with Nick Fortugno What will you be doing at DIY DAYS? Speaking about play and checking out what others have done-themselves. What is your background? I’m a game designer, game teacher, and game artist. I make systems that create emotion through emergent experience. I started with LARPs and roleplaying and moved on to [...]
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Storytelling as a tool in social change
5 Questions With Lina Srivastava What will you be doing at DIY DAYS? I’m looking forward to leading a discussion and workshop on “Mobilizing Change Through Storytelling.” And I’m looking forward to reconnecting with the great community that gathers around DIY Days events. What is your background? I’m a lawyer-turned-social innovation/social change activist, working [...]
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DIY DAYS is a roving gathering for those who create. Past stops have included Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston and Philadelphia. FREE to participants and organized by volunteers – DIY DAYS is about the accessibility of ideas, resources and networking that can enable creators to fund, create, distribute and sustain.
Currently DIY DAYS is held twice a year
Spring - NYC
Fall - LA
Looking for Partners
In 2012 we are looking for partners to bring DIY DAYS to other countries. If you're interested drop us a line.
Wicked Solutions for a Wicked Problem (WS WP) is a creative exploration into problem solving using storytelling. A think tank meets Social Hackathon that will tackle a wicked problem over the course of 72 hours. The community will work together from concept to prototype. -- READ MORE
Reboot Stories is focused on digital literacy and social change via storytelling. Through our participatory storytelling projects, DIY DAYS events, WS WP social hacks and experiential educational efforts we build stories and social experiences for the 21st Century. For more information visit www.rebootstories.com
Is the first installment in the Reboot Stories digital literacy trilogy. A special co-creation project that ran in conjunction with DIY DAYS featuring: 40 students, 2 teachers, multiple stories, a robot, a rocket and endless creativity. -- READ MORE
