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Posts Tagged ‘NEA’
April 12, 2012
$100,000 to be awarded via TED’s City 2.0
TED has issued a call for proposals in conjunction with its 2012 TED Prize, the City 2.0. Between now and May 15, groups can apply for mini-grants of $10,000, of which ten will be awarded, to support local projects in line with the values of the City 2.0–inclusive, innovative, healthy, thriving, soulful. Selected projects will be announced in late-June at the annual TEDGlobal conference. Among other notes, TED emphasizes that “Unproven concepts with a strong action plan are welcome.”
This one-time grants program from TED constitutes a fraction of the funding being mobilized through ArtPlace, profiled here previously, and the National Endowment for the Arts‘ Our Town program, profiled here previously. But what it lacks in deep pockets, the global reach of TED may be even more significant.
Click here to apply for the City 2.0 grants.
April 3, 2012
Social Impact Design Summit Reflection
Last month, Heather Fleming of Catapult Design published a powerful blog post, reflecting on the Social Impact Design Summit, which took place February 27 at the Rockefeller Foundation headquarters in New York. Co-hosted by the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Lemelson Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), another participant in the exclusive day-long event was Kirtee Shah, a practicing architect and Director of the Ahmedabad Study Action Group in India. In his own reflections, published on the Cooper-Hewitt’s website, Shah challenges with the limited scope of the convening, writing:
To me, a wider definition of socially responsible design would embrace: The client groups that are served (are poor, low-income, and those un-serviced by formal markets excluded?); quality and reach of design output (for mass or class?); cost and affordability (who can buy/access?); sensitivity to larger ecological/environmental/social challenges in production, marketing, and delivery processes (carbon footprint, environmental crisis, energy/ resource constraints, inequality, exclusion, waste); people centeredness (sensitivity to culture, tradition, local wisdom; innovation (technology, tools); approaches to design (is the approach participatory, consultative, enabling, empowering, or is it more conventional–i.e., designers offering solutions from ivory towers?).
Click here to read Kirtee Shah’s full reflection on the Social Impact Design Summit.
January 24, 2012
ArtPlace names finalists for second grant cycle
Just a little over two months ago, more than 2,000 letters of inquiry flowed into ArtPlace–the newly-established consortium that supports creative placemaking with grants and loans, research, and advocacy. In another sign of its nimbleness and efficiency, ArtPlace has already narrowed the field to 127 finalists, representing 68 cities.
The selected projects represent the best of the more than 2,000 applications from across the country. Finalists were chosen for their potential to have a transformative impact on community vibrancy. Proposed projects run the gamut from temporary art spaces to permanent performance venues, from music festivals to art walks and from streetscaping to artist residencies.
Click here to read the official release and list of finalists on the ArtPlace website.
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