Friends Talking About Friends

Friends. We all have them, for better or for worse. Some of us have a hard time finding them, some can't stop making them. But in the end, we all need friends in this big, scary city and these are three that we've come to rely upon in New York's mapping and data experiences.

And to go all totally meta 'n stuff, we are going to make some of our wonderful geo-friends TALK ABOUT FRIENDS. So get ready for a great night of three wonderful women who have each made a massive impact upon their fields in NYC and beyond. Join us and be our friend(s), our BFFs, our arm-buddy, or our conference bestie.

SPEAKERS
Giorgia Lupi giorgialupi.com (http://www.giorgialupi.com/) [@giorgialupi] is an award-winning information designer and researcher, she is co-founder and design director at Accurat (http://www.accurat.it/)a data-driven design firm with offices in Milan and New York. Her work in information visualization frequently crosses the divide between digital and print, exploring visual models and metaphors to represent dense and rich data-driven stories. Giorgia received her M-Arch at FAF in Ferrara and she then earned a PhD in Design at Politecnico di Milano in 2014. Her design work has been featured on the New York Times, Wired, the Guardian, Popular Science, Time Magazine, The Washington Post, Forbes, among all.Her work has been exhibited at: the New York Hall of Science, The Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York, Triennale Design Museum in Milan, Milano Design Week and Somerset House in London. She is currently authoring and designing the Dear Data (http://www.dear-data.com/)book, published be Penguin (Uk) and Princeton Architectural Presso (US), in the Fall.

Jessie Braden http://www.pratt.edu/savi [@ (https://twitter.com/vr00n)jessiebraden] [@prattsavi] is the co-founder and Director of Pratt Institute’s Spatial Analysis & Visualization Initiative (SAVI). SAVI uses GIS and visualization to understand urban communities and collaborates with non-profits and academic partners on projects. Educating mappers to think critically about data and to understand the complexity of spatial information is a current area of focus for SAVI. Jessie also developed and coordinates SAVI’s GIS & Design certificate program and she teaches GIS in Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.

Wendy Brawer http://greenmap.org [@greenmap] [@wendybrawer] Designer and ‘climaterian’, Wendy Brawer is best known as the founding director of Green Map System (http://GreenMap.org), a nonprofit that engages local communities in 65 countries in mapping sustainability and social change using a shared set of icons and tools. She has published numerous NYC Green Maps and produced public exhibits, tours and workshops. In addition to mapping green sites, Wendy is pitching in on energy, cycling and community green infrastructure projects, all connected to her personal Agenda 21. With exciting changes taking shape at Green Map, this talk will share new ways to get involved in support of our common future.

Caroline Bauer http://curbyourlitter.org Director of "Curb Your Litter : Greenpoint"

Caroline Bauer is the Director of Curb Your Litter: Greenpoint, a project she co-designed with Alan Minor and Dana Rachlin to solve the Greenpoint’s litter problem and reduce overall waste produced in the neighborhood. Prior to bringing this project to the Greenpoint Chamber, Caroline was a Project Manager at the Design Trust for Public Space, where she worked on a diverse portfolio of projects to improve NYC’s public realm. Her most notable projects at the Design Trust included developing the first-ever data collection toolkit for urban gardeners and farmers and co-editing the forthcoming Under the Elevated: Reclaiming Space, Connecting Communities book with the NYC Department of Transportation.

OUR SCHEDULE
6:30PM: Mingle: doors, beer, pizza, dumplings! and people
7:00PM: Presentations & Q&A
8:30PM+: The after hours celebrations