The third and final day of the Festival will transform the streetscape into a temporary city of ideas, redefining public space and architecture. One hundred cultural and community groups will come together to share their ideas through hands-on workshops, performances, tours, and exhibitions. See map (below) for locations.
Participating Organizations
11 + POOL
The World’s First Water-Filtrating, Floating Pool
59 596 Acres and Deborah Berke Partners
What do we do with our land?
56 Abrons Arts Center
The City of the Lost and Found
13 Anne Apparu-Hall, Ted Hall, and Friends
Spider Web
53 Art in Odd Places
RECALL
51 Arte Institute and Albanian Institute New York
Surface Markers and I will play your soul
2 ArtHome
ArtBuilt Mobile Studios
Wojciech Gilewicz, Presented in Collaboration with Artists Alliance Inc.
RRRC: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Compost
23 Bowery Arts + Science, CityLore, Endangered Language Alliance, and the US Department of Arts and Culture
Ministry of Endangered Language
19 The Bowery Mission
227 Bowery Tours
40 Center for Genomic Gastronomy with Edible Geography, presented by the Finnish Cultural Institute in New York
Smog Tasting
7 Center for Urban Pedagogy
Sewer in a Suitcase
17 Changing Environments
Soofa
69 Chinatown YMCA
Fitness Demos
45 Circus for Construction with Austin+Mergold
The Wall Inside
10 City Atlas
Share Your City II
57 Come Out & Play
Sesame Street Boxheads, ART BOY SIN, and Sloth Chase
67 Cooper Square Committee
Tenants’ Rights Walking Tour: An Exploration of Current Housing Issues on the Lower East Side
25 The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of the Cooper Union
Building a Model of Education
67 Davidson Rafailidis
MirrorMirror
41 Design for the Living World: Marjetica Potrč
The Invisible Lunch Discussions
6 Downtown Art / LES History Month
LES STORIES
46 The Drawing Center
Meditation Room: Horizon
18 Emily Johnson/Catalyst
Conjuring Future Joy
9–14 Family and PlayLab
The Worms
12 Fixers Collective
Fixing Session
5 Fourth Arts Block (FABnyc)
Invisible Memory, Movement, & Sound
11 French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF)
Lights in French and American cities
8 Genspace NYC, Inc
Genspace Citizens Science and the City
60 The Greenpoint Bioremediation Project (gBP)
Free Soil Testing
9 Groundswell
Scaffold Up! Making the Invisible City Visible
30–39 Hester Street Fair
IDEAS CITY Food Court
68 The Institute for Aesthletics
Mayan Ball Game Tournament
4 Institute for Public Architecture
Total Reset
47 Jordi Jorba
Nomadic Place
20 The Living Theatre
No Place to Hide
22 Loisaida, Inc.
Invisible Loisaida
52 The Lodge Gallery
The Positivity Scrolls
67 Lower East Side Business Improvement District
Lower East Side Public Art Tour featuring 100 Gates
42 Lower East Side Ecology Center
E-waste Recycling Collection and Upcycle Workshop
62 Lower East Side Ecology Center
Save the Swales
66 The Lower Eastside Girls Club
Destination: Avenue D
63 Manny Cantor Center and Laura Nova
Moving Stories
56 Materials for the Arts
Make Visible the Music: Giant Xylophones with Materials for the Arts
16 Med44–Media Architecture
“Urban Speaker“http://www.ideas-city.org/#event/urban-speaker
24 miLES
Pop-up Caravan
58 The Movement Creative
Parkour and the Pop-up Playground
64 MTWTF
WAPR: Astor Place Radio
65 Municipal Art Society of New York
FREE! Walking Tour: “On and Off the Bowery”
67 Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle de Paris
A Pigeon’s Perspective
21 Naturally Occurring Cultural Districts New York (NOCD-NY)
Underground Justice: a Five Borough Perspective
43 New Museum Education Department
Collecting Memories
44 New York City Department of Design and Construction
Visually Impaired Way-finding through Construction Zones
67 New York City Housing Authority
Out in Public
54 The New York City Urban Debate League
IDEAS CITY Youth Debate Tournament
62 NYC Compost Project hosted by the Lower East Side Ecology Center
Bin Build!
61 NYC Parks
Trees Count! 2015
67 NYU ITP, NYU CUSP, MIT DUSP
City Sensing Bike Tour
14 Public Interactives Research Team (the New School) and Playable Media Lab (Sarah Lawrence College)
Let’s SEE the Trash!
15 SecondMedia
Foamspace
27 The Sketchbook Project
The Sketchbook Project Mobile Library
3 Solar One
The Peril the Wind Sings To: Making Electricity Visible
49 Storefront for Art and Architecture
Plush
50 Storefront for Art and Architecture and the Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Educational Center with Jonah Bokaer
Rivington Migrations
29 Transportation Alternatives
Free Bike Valet
48 Technoculture, Art and Games Resource Center (TAG) with Gina Haraszti and Pierson Browne
MINDCRAFT
55 Two Bridges Neighborhood Council
Beyond the Grid & the Cooper Lumen
26 The Uni Project
The Uni Portable Public Reading Room
28 Visual AIDS
Undetectability Mapping Exercise
67 Woodward Gallery & Gotham SideWalks
Street/Art, Lower East Side: An Interactive Community Art Walk
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