Civic hacknight #160 with Lilian Radovac: Alternative Toronto

Presenter: Lilian Radovac, University of Toronto

Topic: Tech, meet history: About Alternative Toronto

Lilian Radovac will speak about her project Alternative Toronto, a digital community archive that is documenting the city’s radical and countercultural histories of the 1980s and 1990s. Using some of the material the project has crowdsourced so far, she’ll discuss the importance of thinking about tech both critically and historically, and underscore how the struggles of the past can help us to resist injustice in the city today.

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Twitter: @LilianRadovac @alternTO
IG: @alternativetoronto

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Dr. Lilian Radovac is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology at the University of Toronto Mississauga.

*** THIS MONTH'S VENUE SPONSOR:

Sidewalk Labs

https://sidewalktoronto.ca/

Sidewalk Labs is an Alphabet company that imagines, designs, tests, and builds urban innovations to help cities meet their biggest challenges. They are designing a district in Toronto’s Eastern Waterfront to tackle the challenges of urban growth, working in partnership with the tri-government agency Waterfront Toronto and the local community. This joint effort, called Sidewalk Toronto, aims to make Toronto the global hub for urban innovation.

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*** ABOUT US:

Our weekly civic tech hacknights bring together designers, coders, urban planners, government staff, mappers, policy-makers, students, communications strategists, and all other Torontonians who share an interest in making Toronto more responsive, prosperous, sustainable and equitable, through design, tech, and data. (Coders are welcome, but you don’t have to be a coder to contribute!) Come and be part of it!

Agenda:

6:30-7: Welcome and intros
7-7:30: Presentation and Q&A/discussion
7:30-9: Breakout groups (make something!)

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Hope to see you Tuesday!