‘NYC’ Category
Telling stories with your body and voice
5 Questions With Elena Parker What will you be doing at DIY DAYS? This year at DIYDays, I’ll be showing a project called “Constellation of Stories,” as part of the new Open Design Experiences section. I’m also excited to hear about what other people are working on and to learn new techniques or approaches [...]
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DIY DAYS NYC FINAL PROGRAM
The following is the current program for DIY DAYS NYC 2012. We’re excited to team with the New School, the Parsons School of Design, the Makerbot Community, FreedomLab, Story Pirates, the Writers Improv Studio, Reboot Stories and the Buckminster Fuller Institute to bring you an action packed day of talks, workshops, networking and experiences. Important [...]
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Wish for the Future
IMPORTANT UPDATE If you have children or know of someone who does – let them know that they should bring them to the DIY DAYS Experience Hall which runs from 1:30pm to 4:30pm. It’s totally FREE. There will be 8 different experience stations to participate in. Plus children and adults will be about to co-create… [...]
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Breaking out of the confines of traditional didactic approaches to education
5 Questions for Karen Bellinger Wehner What will you be doing at DIY DAYS? Together with Laura Fleming and Lucas JW Johnson, I’m presenting a workshop on educational transmedia content creation for and with children, both in traditional classroom settings and beyond. What is your background? My background is pretty mixed. I have [...]
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Helping children construct their own understanding of the world around them
5 Questions With Lauren Packard What is your background? Studied Art History and Religion at Barnard and Columbia, taught art for over 8 years, love swimming What’s your wish for the future? My wish for the future is positive change and to hear voices that have predominantly been unheard. If you could share [...]
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The art of starting something from nothing
5 Questions for Ryan Aynes What will you be doing at DIY DAYS? Speaking on ”Measuring Success – new methods for funding, engaging and creating” I’ll also touch on brand storytelling and what we’re doing at Ogilvy to move forward on this. But really, starting something from nothing, I’ve made an art out of [...]
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Growing the Internet into an Open Garden of Expertise, Experience & Understanding
5 Questions For Michael Dinerstein What will you be doing at WS WP? I’m not exactly sure. I hope to offer some ideas for narratives and also program a bit if necessary. What is your background? I am an entrepreneur and programmer who comes from a film studies background. I have experience working [...]
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Attendee Profile: Tesia Kosmalski
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. 5 Questions With Tesia Kosmalski What’s your background? My background is in both the practice of [...]
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Bringing Bucky’s Ideas to Life
5 Questions With Sophie Nichols What will you be doing at DIY DAYS? I’ll be representing The Buckminster Fuller Institute, working with Kurt Przybilla on Saturday to help bring Bucky’s ideas to life with the bamboo dome and some toys and artifacts that help explain his work! What is your background? I’m always [...]
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Helping Children Protoype Ideas for the Future
5 Questions for Lee Overtree What will you be doing at DIY DAYS? Story Pirates is helping to curate the collaboration between kids and adults at DIY Days NYC. We’ll be guiding the kids through prototyping their own ideas for the future, side by side with the adult participants at WS WP. What [...]
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Exploring the Works of Buckminster Fuller
5 Questions With Atley Loughridge What will you be doing at DIY DAYS? I’m helping to produce aspects of the event such as the explorations into Buckminster Fuller’s work, as well as facilitating overall development, communications, documentation and sponsorship support. What is your background? I’ve sort of wandered in this order: math, physics, [...]
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Categorizing the Different Stations of Gameplay
5 Questions For Alex Hermann What will you be doing at WS WP? I will try to categorize the different stations concerning gameplay, dramaturgy and structure in order to find out something about mechanics and architecture of storys and games (or mixtures) in general. I will be closly working with Ele Jansen, Jasmine [...]
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Attendee Profile: Kathryn Jones
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. What’s your background? Kathryn is the founder of VirtualOvation.TV- turning the performing arts into an interactive, global [...]
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Drawing connections between transmedia and education
5 Questions With Laura Fleming What will you be doing at DIY DAYS? I am participating in a panel with Lucas Johnson and Karen Wehner called Worlds of Learning: Transmedia for Children & Education. What is your background? I have been an educator in the state of New Jersey for 15 years. I have been [...]
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Building Stories That Live Beyond the Screen
5 Questions With StoryCode What will we be doing at DIY Days? We will highlight three case studies that have been presented at StoryCode as examples of the types of projects being created that intersect storytelling and technology. With the help of the audience, we will then workshop a mini-story hackathon giving the [...]
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Generating an Openness Towards the Sharing of Knowledge
Five Questions With Jasmine Lyman What will you be doing at DIY DAYS? At DIY days I will research aspects of co-creation and experience design, meet friends and share inspiration. What is your background? My background is a bricolage of scientific artistic exploration. A Master’s degree in archaeology and studies in film, cognitive [...]
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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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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
