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Presentations for next CreativesDC Event
Started Apr 20
Summaries from the Jan. 28 2009 CreativesDC group meetings
Started Feb 11
Profile question on how your creativity is influencing our culture and economy
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- What is your interest in the CreativesDC beta community?
- To crowdsource cool places, events and scenes where we can all meet other creatives.
- How are you using your imagination and original ideas to enrich our economy and culture in DC, and beyond? Or, how would you like it to?
- Crowdsourcing the development of places that creatives truly want to be in.
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- Neil Takemoto is the founding director of CoolTown Beta Communities, a crowdsource-based placemaking and economic development firm codeveloping natural cultural districts with creatives. His work over the last 14 years has been committed to the development of places with significant economic, environmental and social benefit, currently working in Syracuse, New Orleans and Washington DC.
Neil is the founder of CoolTown Studios, a ‘crowdsourcing cool places for creatives’ blog/news site that attracts 40,000 unique visitors a month. It has been featured in Architect Magazine and the ULI’s annual developers conference.
He is also the cofounder of Bubbly, a crowdsourcing web application, and Mobfuse, a crowdsourcing consulting firm.
With Andres Duany, Neil co-founded the National Town Builders Association in 1997, the only business trade group of Smart Growth/New Urbanism real estate developers. Prior to that, he founded a national nonprofit educational clearinghouse for the New Urbanism field.
- heyneil@cooltownstudios.com
- Who referred you? (This is how we give credit!)
- DC's creatives
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CreativesParis?
I'll be in Paris on July 4-13 to study the kinds of places, scenes and events that could inspire us here in DC. If anyone has suggestions of people I could meet that would help my mission, perhaps even establish a sister community to CreativesDC, please let me know!
Here's a little story on Paris' drive to… Continue
Posted on June 24, 2009 at 3:30pm — 5 Comments
Affinity Lab in Adams Morgan on Fox News, Express
The Lab was featured in the Fox News story, Despite Economy, Some Businesses Succeed, on Friday, February 13, 2009 at 6 pm. It was also very prominently featured in the Washington Post Express, Natural Affinities: Thinking Outside the Cubicle, on February 11, 2009. Continue
Posted on February 17, 2009 at 12:30pm —
The 'outdoor cafe plaza'
...or outdoor cafe piazza, to be more authentic.Compared to the different types of places that make an outdoor cafe scene, the outdoor cafe plaza is the holy grail. Unfortunately, you probably won't be seeing such places in the U.S. for another 10-20 years, bu… Continue
Posted on February 3, 2009 at 11:30am — 2 Comments
Building a creative economy in DC
The new administration promises to bring true meaning to 'by the people, for the people', and challenges us to take action. So what's a good starting point as far as growing an economy, building places and improving quality of life for DC creatives?
Applying the Lo… Continue
Posted on January 23, 2009 at 1:29pm —
Golden Triangle BID sponsoring artistic bike racks!
The Golden Triangle Business Improvement District is commissioning designs for bicycle racks as public art throughout the 42 block area. The deadline for submissions is Feb. 9.Selected designers will receive $1500 and a Saturday night stay for two at the Mayflower Hotel. Go to the BID's website and download the app… Continue
Posted on December 31, 2008 at 10:00am —
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