#civicdesign — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #civicdesign, aggregated by home.social.
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Fonts In Use is the ultimate playground for typography nerds who can't get enough of fonts in action! 🤓🔍 Dive into this endless archive and discover all the places you never knew fonts were used, from the obscure corner of governmental civic projects to the high-fashion runway—because knowing what font your local DMV uses is just *that* critical. 😂🏢
https://fontsinuse.com/ #FontsInUse #TypographyNerds #FontDiscovery #DesignInAction #CivicDesign #HackerNews #ngated -
Fonts In Use is the ultimate playground for typography nerds who can't get enough of fonts in action! 🤓🔍 Dive into this endless archive and discover all the places you never knew fonts were used, from the obscure corner of governmental civic projects to the high-fashion runway—because knowing what font your local DMV uses is just *that* critical. 😂🏢
https://fontsinuse.com/ #FontsInUse #TypographyNerds #FontDiscovery #DesignInAction #CivicDesign #HackerNews #ngated -
I want San Jose to build something like this under the overpasses at Guadalupe River...
#civicDesign #civilengineering #skate #skatepark #china #sweet #sk8girls
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One of the biggest myths in civic life is that feelings are somehow separate from governance, education, technology, or peacebuilding.
They aren’t.
Anger tells us where justice has failed. Fear shows us where trust has broken. Burnout reveals where the design is asking too much of the human nervous system.
https://associationredefine.substack.com/p/peace-but-make-it-systemic-a-blueprint-161?r=6l8ed8
#PeaceEducation #CivicIntelligence #SystemsThinking #EmotionalIntelligence #DemocracyEducation #YouthParticipation #CivicDesign #MediaLiteracy #Education
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One of the biggest myths in civic life is that feelings are somehow separate from governance, education, technology, or peacebuilding.
They aren’t.
Anger tells us where justice has failed. Fear shows us where trust has broken. Burnout reveals where the design is asking too much of the human nervous system.
https://associationredefine.substack.com/p/peace-but-make-it-systemic-a-blueprint-161?r=6l8ed8
#PeaceEducation #CivicIntelligence #SystemsThinking #EmotionalIntelligence #DemocracyEducation #YouthParticipation #CivicDesign #MediaLiteracy #Education
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There’s a reason simplicity is so persuasive.
It might not clarify things, but it relieves us.
The moment we stay with the full complexity of something, we run into a limit: of knowledge, of control, of certainty.
And that’s not a place we’re trained to sit in.
So we reach for something cleaner. Something that feels resolved.
It might not be true, but it lets us move on.
#SystemsThinking
#Complexity
#Sensemaking
#Democracy
#CriticalThinking
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There’s a reason simplicity is so persuasive.
It might not clarify things, but it relieves us.
The moment we stay with the full complexity of something, we run into a limit: of knowledge, of control, of certainty.
And that’s not a place we’re trained to sit in.
So we reach for something cleaner. Something that feels resolved.
It might not be true, but it lets us move on.
#SystemsThinking
#Complexity
#Sensemaking
#Democracy
#CriticalThinking
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Some places make belonging feel effortless.
Everything is structured in a way that leaves no friction: paths are clear, rhythms are shared, nothing pushes you to the edges.
It looks natural from the outside.
But it’s not accidental.
It’s the result of systems designed well enough that people don’t have to fight to be part of them.
#Education #Belonging #PublicSystems #SocialInnovation #LearningBeyondSchool #CivicDesign #Democracy #YouthEngagement #SystemsThinking
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Some places make belonging feel effortless.
Everything is structured in a way that leaves no friction: paths are clear, rhythms are shared, nothing pushes you to the edges.
It looks natural from the outside.
But it’s not accidental.
It’s the result of systems designed well enough that people don’t have to fight to be part of them.
#Education #Belonging #PublicSystems #SocialInnovation #LearningBeyondSchool #CivicDesign #Democracy #YouthEngagement #SystemsThinking
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»Tot comença al centre« — everything starts at the center. these are posters for Barcelona's Centres Cívics spring enrollment. each poster shows a head with the face filled with fractal-like patterns. there are 52 such civic centers spread across the city, offering various kinds of courses. publicly funded, decentralized cultural infrastructure. i can't tell how well the offerings are, but the posters sure look great!
#Barcelona #CentresCívics #CivicDesign #Illustration #CulturalInfrastructure
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»Tot comença al centre« — everything starts at the center. these are posters for Barcelona's Centres Cívics spring enrollment. each poster shows a head with the face filled with fractal-like patterns. there are 52 such civic centers spread across the city, offering various kinds of courses. publicly funded, decentralized cultural infrastructure. i can't tell how well the offerings are, but the posters sure look great!
#Barcelona #CentresCívics #CivicDesign #Illustration #CulturalInfrastructure
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Jahad Metro Plaza in Tehran: Reclaiming Infrastructure as Civic Space
Jahad Metro Plaza/ KA Architecture Studio. Photo © Mohammad Hassan Ettefagh Share Share Facebook Twitter Mai…
#NewsBeep #News #Artsanddesign #ADNarrative #AgaKhanAwardforArchitecture #Architecture #Articles #Arts #ArtsAndDesign #AU #Australia #CivicDesign #Design #Entertainment #Iran #KAArchitectureStudio #PublicInfrastructure #Publictransport #UrbanDensity #UrbanIntervention #UrbanMobility
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New gear alert! 🚨🗽
NYC belongs to the people. Show your civic tech pride with our brand-new "No Kings" tote bag—now available as a thank-you for a $35 donation to BetaNYC. 🎒✨
Whether you’re heading to a town hall or the farmer's market, carry the mission with you. Your support helps us keep NYC’s data open and its democracy strong.
🔗 Head to https://www.beta.nyc/support-us-no-king to claim your bag!
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New gear alert! 🚨🗽
NYC belongs to the people. Show your civic tech pride with our brand-new "No Kings" tote bag—now available as a thank-you for a $35 donation to BetaNYC. 🎒✨
Whether you’re heading to a town hall or the farmer's market, carry the mission with you. Your support helps us keep NYC’s data open and its democracy strong.
🔗 Head to https://www.beta.nyc/support-us-no-king to claim your bag!
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Making Infrastructure Visible: When Systems Become Architecture
CopenHill Energy Plant and Urban Recre…
#NewsBeep #News #Artsanddesign #ArchDailyTopic2026TheTechnosphere #Architecture #Arts #ArtsAndDesign #BIG #Cities #CivicDesign #Design #DesignSystems #Energy #EnergyPlant #Entertainment #IndustrialArchitecture #Infrastructure #Mecanoo #Port #PowerPlant #PublicInfrastructure #Technology #UK #UnitedKingdom #UrbanDesign #UrbanTranformation #ZahaHadidArchitects
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Governance systems are not malfunctioning.
They are operating beyond their design capacity.Orpheus 2045 examines what comes next.
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It stays calm because it’s designed not to attract people who want to cause trouble.
Starting around March, we’ll slowly add more categories for worries and hobbies.Nonprofit Organization Yururi Concept
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There’s a difference between giving a community a tool and giving them access. Only one of those rewires how a place thinks.
Today’s piece is about the moment everything clicked. Just not the way we expected.
https://associationredefine.substack.com/p/rebuilding-digital-commons?r=6l8ed8
#DigitalCommons #CivicTech #OpenSource #PublicInfrastructure #SystemsThinking #EdTech #DigitalSovereignty #FutureOfDemocracy #CollectiveIntelligence #CivicInnovation
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Every institution has a ghost. And no, not the Halloween kind. The kind made of old habits, old fears, old rituals and old incentives. The kind that politely swallows our best reform ideas time and again.
https://associationredefine.substack.com/p/designing-with-ghosts-a-practical?r=6l8ed8
#democracy #governance #systemsthinking #reform #publicpolicy #politics #politicalculture #InstitutionalMemory #civicdesign
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Every institution has a ghost. And no, not the Halloween kind. The kind made of old habits, old fears, old rituals and old incentives. The kind that politely swallows our best reform ideas time and again.
https://associationredefine.substack.com/p/designing-with-ghosts-a-practical?r=6l8ed8
#democracy #governance #systemsthinking #reform #publicpolicy #politics #politicalculture #InstitutionalMemory #civicdesign
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🎥 A short film on institutional memory, reform as ritual, and the systems that continue not because they serve — but because they survived.
Also live:
📖 Why Reform Fails When It Forgets the Ghost Layer — a companion essay on architectural memory, cultural delay, and the emotional residue of power.Watch → youtu.be/RfijSyrjwww
Read → https://redefine.pt/2025/07/07/ghost-layer-of-systems/#IllegibleSystems #CivicDesign #SystemThinking #politics #Power
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Wired for Collapse: How Digital Systems Hijack Human Resilience
Digital tools shape more than behavior—they shape what we notice, what we ignore, and whether we act.
This piece explores how algorithmic saturation and aestheticized crisis quietly erode civic agency and emotional bandwidth.
Read here →https://redefine.pt/2025/07/03/wired-for-collapse/
#DigitalSystems #CivicDesign #EmotionalLiteracy #resilience #democraticbacksliding
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Applying CHÔRA’s City Transformation Stencil — a Story from Georgia by CHÔRA: Reflections on the Design of a Startup Ecosystem Portfolio for a city called Batumi
https://link.medium.com/qagg5PSeOQb #civicdesign #civictech -
Applying CHÔRA’s City Transformation Stencil — a Story from Georgia by CHÔRA: Reflections on the Design of a Startup Ecosystem Portfolio for a city called Batumi
https://link.medium.com/qagg5PSeOQb #civicdesign #civictech -
What a beautiful tool where we can play around to design, remix, and experiment in streets-design: https://streetmix.net/-/2814713
I am doing a course via EIT Urban Mobility on Streets for Children, and found a few tools, including this one. h/t Cristina Rivas
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What a beautiful tool where we can play around to design, remix, and experiment in streets-design: https://streetmix.net/-/2814713
I am doing a course via EIT Urban Mobility on Streets for Children, and found a few tools, including this one. h/t Cristina Rivas
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We're hiring a Lab Manager to support with research, lead data-driven community projects and monitor incoming data requests! 📣 👀
Interested or know someone who might be? Come work with us! 🎉
Learn more and apply at: https://beta.nyc/lab-manager
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We're hiring a Lab Manager to support with research, lead data-driven community projects and monitor incoming data requests! 📣 👀
Interested or know someone who might be? Come work with us! 🎉
Learn more and apply at: https://beta.nyc/lab-manager
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We're hiring a Civic Tech Lab Manager to oversee data-driven community projects and monitor incoming data requests! 📣 🙌
Interested or know someone who might be? Come join our team! 🥳
Learn more and apply at: https://beta.nyc/lab-manager
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We're hiring a Civic Tech Lab Manager to oversee data-driven community projects and monitor incoming data requests! 📣 🙌
Interested or know someone who might be? Come join our team! 🥳
Learn more and apply at: https://beta.nyc/lab-manager
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We're hiring a Lab Manager to assist with research, monitor data requests, and manage data-driven projects! 📣 👀
If you're interested or know someone who might be, come join our team! 🎉
Learn more and apply at: https://beta.nyc/lab-manager
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We're hiring a Lab Manager to assist with research, monitor data requests, and manage data-driven projects! 📣 👀
If you're interested or know someone who might be, come join our team! 🎉
Learn more and apply at: https://beta.nyc/lab-manager
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We're looking for a Lab Manager to support our research efforts, handle data requests, and contribute to data-driven projects! 📣 👀
Interested or know someone who might be? Join our team! 🥳
Learn more and apply at: https://beta.nyc/lab-manager
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We're looking for a Lab Manager to support our research efforts, handle data requests, and contribute to data-driven projects! 📣 👀
Interested or know someone who might be? Join our team! 🥳
Learn more and apply at: https://beta.nyc/lab-manager
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We're hiring a Lab Manager to assist with research, data requests, and work on data-driven projects!📊 📣
Sound like you or anyone you know? Come work with us!
Learn more and apply at: https://beta.nyc/lab-manager
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We're hiring a Lab Manager to assist with research, data requests, and work on data-driven projects!📊 📣
Sound like you or anyone you know? Come work with us!
Learn more and apply at: https://beta.nyc/lab-manager
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David Guarino transformed the formerly-complex #CalFRESH digital application into a simple, 10-minute process. "The end result was a lowest-burden application form that actually gets a caseworker what they need to efficiently and effectively process it. We did a lot of iteration to figure out that sweet spot," he says. Learn more about building great government websites from this real-world example in Asterisk Magazine https://asteriskmag.com/issues/06/how-to-make-a-great-government-website #drupal4gov #civicdesign
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David Guarino transformed the formerly-complex #CalFRESH digital application into a simple, 10-minute process. "The end result was a lowest-burden application form that actually gets a caseworker what they need to efficiently and effectively process it. We did a lot of iteration to figure out that sweet spot," he says. Learn more about building great government websites from this real-world example in Asterisk Magazine https://asteriskmag.com/issues/06/how-to-make-a-great-government-website #drupal4gov #civicdesign
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Public sector organizations need help with their digital transformation journeys as much as anyone. Our experience in this area has helped us create a digital communications governance guide that covers the fundamentals. Read on for:
- The evolution of digital governance and transformation
- Agile practices for communications governance
- Auditing and identifying stakeholders
- Documenting communications governance policies
https://www.palantir.net/blog/digital-communications-governance #drupal4gov #civicdesign #drupal -
Public sector organizations need help with their digital transformation journeys as much as anyone. Our experience in this area has helped us create a digital communications governance guide that covers the fundamentals. Read on for:
- The evolution of digital governance and transformation
- Agile practices for communications governance
- Auditing and identifying stakeholders
- Documenting communications governance policies
https://www.palantir.net/blog/digital-communications-governance #drupal4gov #civicdesign #drupal -
Videos for the 2024 NYC Schoolf of Data community conference about #CivicDesign, #CivicTech, and #OpenData became recently available, via @BetaNYC
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgCe1KzF20iy1lktOJw4_FGzw1P74QlRF
Past years, and other events: https://www.youtube.com/@betanyc/playlists
More about the event: https://schoolofdata.nyc
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Videos for the 2024 NYC Schoolf of Data community conference about #CivicDesign, #CivicTech, and #OpenData became recently available, via @BetaNYC
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgCe1KzF20iy1lktOJw4_FGzw1P74QlRF
Past years, and other events: https://www.youtube.com/@betanyc/playlists
More about the event: https://schoolofdata.nyc
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An example of citizens-centric service design—"Inclusive decision-making requires openness, expertise and structures" by VTT Finland
https://www.vttresearch.com/en/news-and-ideas/inclusive-decision-making-requires-openness-expertise-and-structures #civictech #civicdesign
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An example of citizens-centric service design—"Inclusive decision-making requires openness, expertise and structures" by VTT Finland
https://www.vttresearch.com/en/news-and-ideas/inclusive-decision-making-requires-openness-expertise-and-structures #civictech #civicdesign
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"Every interaction between the government and the American public is an opportunity to deliver the services our people expect and deserve. And when we don’t, that’s a cost to our nation." Authors Lashanda Hodge and Aaron Stienstra break down the government's nationwide effort to implement equitable, human-focused civic design that serves all people. Check it out in Digital Gov https://digital.gov/resources/embedding-equity-in-civic-design-to-transform-customer-experience/ #civicdesign #civictech
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"Every interaction between the government and the American public is an opportunity to deliver the services our people expect and deserve. And when we don’t, that’s a cost to our nation." Authors Lashanda Hodge and Aaron Stienstra break down the government's nationwide effort to implement equitable, human-focused civic design that serves all people. Check it out in Digital Gov https://digital.gov/resources/embedding-equity-in-civic-design-to-transform-customer-experience/ #civicdesign #civictech
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JOB ALERT — we’re hiring a Data Analyst to join our Civic Innovation Lab. Are you looking to make a difference in NYC civic engagement? Come join us to perform data analysis and do research for civic stakeholders.
Let’s build the future of #civictech #opendata and #civicdesign together! Learn more and apply at https://betanyc.forms.fm/data-analyst-civic-innovation-associate/forms/9800.
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JOB ALERT — we’re hiring a Data Analyst to join our Civic Innovation Lab. Are you looking to make a difference in NYC civic engagement? Come join us to perform data analysis and do research for civic stakeholders.
Let’s build the future of #civictech #opendata and #civicdesign together! Learn more and apply at https://betanyc.forms.fm/data-analyst-civic-innovation-associate/forms/9800.
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Are you looking to make a difference in NYC civic engagement? We’re hiring a Data Analyst to support research and data assistance services (RADAR) in our Civic Innovation Lab.
Come join us! Learn more and apply at bit.ly/betanyc-analyst.
#NYC #JobAlert #dataanalyst #civicdesign #civictech #opendata
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Are you looking to make a difference in NYC civic engagement? We’re hiring a Data Analyst to support research and data assistance services (RADAR) in our Civic Innovation Lab.
Come join us! Learn more and apply at bit.ly/betanyc-analyst.
#NYC #JobAlert #dataanalyst #civicdesign #civictech #opendata
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We're hiring a Data Analyst to assist us with RADARs and to improve public services!
Are you a student looking to develop your research, data viz, and programming skills? Come work with us!
Head to http://bit.ly/betanyc-analyst to learn more and apply.
#NYC #JobAlert #dataanalyst #civicdesign #civictech #opendata
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We're hiring a Data Analyst to assist us with RADARs and to improve public services!
Are you a student looking to develop your research, data viz, and programming skills? Come work with us!
Head to http://bit.ly/betanyc-analyst to learn more and apply.
#NYC #JobAlert #dataanalyst #civicdesign #civictech #opendata
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Public libraries are a vital component of socially-inclusive and welcoming towns and cities. #civicdesign #designthinking #servicedesign https://www.sour.studio/podcast/co-creating-public-libraries-shamichael-hallman
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Sent out earlier this week - Women of IXD Deep Cuts #15 newsletter featuring Sabrina Dorsainvil - Designing Human-Centered Civic Spaces - https://mailchi.mp/ffabb26ef357/women-of-ixd-deep-cuts-15-sabrina-dorsainvil-designing-human-centered-civic-spaces
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Decolonizing Nature:
A symbiotic neighbourhood and community where humans and nature thrive. Instead of artificial construction systems that cannot be recycled, WombHome proposes a gentle carving of space within natural structures. This imagined cave provides shelter and safety, without consuming excess energy or creating harmful emissions and construction waste.
https://regenerativefutures.space10.com/projects/wombhome-decolonizing-nature/
By SPACE10 #regenerativefutures #regenerative #housing #civicdesign
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City After the Flood, by Gustavo Jimenez—the Collective Futures winner, a SPACE10 competition.
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Regenerative Futures: A SPACE10 AI Design Competition—An open call to envision what a more desirable future could look like. https://regenerativefutures.space10.com/apply#brief
#sustainability #ClimateTech #housing #urbandesign #civicdesign #biodiversity
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As Rail Profits Soar, Blocked Crossings Force Kids to Crawl Under Trains to Get to School https://www.propublica.org/article/trains-crossing-blocked-kids-norfolk-southern #railways #civicdesign