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On today's episode of Architectette we welcome Shin-pei Tsay.Shin-pei's experience converges on policy, design, and governance to shape inclusive, sustainable, people-centered cities. Throughout her career, she has spearheaded innovative approaches to systemic challenges across numerous urban issues, often with a focus on the public realm and transportation. Shin-pei currently leads the Mayor's Office for New Urban Mechanics in Boston, and was most recently director of global policy for cities and sustainability at Uber. She has also held leadership roles at Gehl Institute, Transit Center, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and served on the boards of SPUR and Transportation Alternatives. We talk about:- The development of Shin-pei's career in urban policy, planning, and transportation innovation and how her career evolved from working for advocacy groups, think tanks, tech companies, to now- city government.- Shin-pei shares her origin story including her hometown and how it framed her perspective of urban life in terms of community, mobility, and access. - We define the “Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics” and Shin-pei explains how her teams are working to redefine Boston's future by testing small scale urban interventions which then inform long-term solutions using examples like the very first 311 program or cooling towers during a recent heat wave.- We talk about urban changes in the past few years, using examples of failures of urban policy as well as successful interventions both in the US and abroad. - We dive into Shin-pei's unique role at Uber and discuss her global impacts on positioning, sustainability, and accessibility. You'll be inspired to get more involved to help shape public policy and urban environments.____Thank you to our sponsors:Arcol is a collaborative building design tool built for modern teams. Arcol streamlines your design process by keeping your model, data and presentations in sync enabling your team to work together seamlessly.- Website:Arcol.io- LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/company/arcol-tech- Twitter/ X:https://x.com/ArcolTechLayer is the workflow platform for buildings, empowering teams to capture field data & photos, connect it to their drawings & models, and create beautiful deliverables & reports.Use Layer to build your own workflow to generate Room Data Sheets from Revit, manage your CA processes such as RFIs or Punch lists, conduct field surveys and much more. The best thing is, it's all connected directly to Revit so you'll never have to copy and paste data between windows again.- Website:https://layer.team/architectette____Links: Department of New Urban Mechanics:https://www.boston.gov/departments/new-urban-mechanicsConnect with Shin-pei:https://www.linkedin.com/in/shin-pei-tsay-48b777/____Connect with Architectette:- Website:www.architectette.com (Learn more)- Instagram:@architectette (See more)- Newsletter:www.architectette.com/newsletter (Behind the Scenes Content)- LinkedIn:The Architectette Podcast Page and/orCaitlin BradySupport Architectette:- Leave us a rating and review!-PatreonMusic byAlexGrohl fromPixabay.
To improve quality of life for as many people as possible, the places to start are cities. Rob and Jackie sat down with multiple award-winning technology and business leader Jonathan Reichental to discuss why the United States is falling behind other countries in the “smart city” movement and why it matters in a data-driven world.MentionedJonathan Reichental. Data Governance for Dummies.For Dummies, 2022.Jonathan Reichental. Smart Cities for Dummies.For Dummies, 2022.“New Urban Mechanics.” boston.gov, January 29, 2016. RelatedAshley Johnson, “Balancing Privacy and Innovation in Smart Cities and Communities” (ITIF, February 2022).Colin Cunliff, Ashley Johnson, and Hodan Omaar, “How Congress and the Biden Administration Could Jumpstart Smart Cities With AI” (ITIF, March 2021).
We the Possibility: Harnessing Public Entrepreneurship to Solve Our Most Urgent Problems by Mitchell Weiss Can we solve big public problems anymore? Yes, we can. This provocative and inspiring book points the way. The huge challenges we face are daunting indeed: climate change, crumbling infrastructure, declining public education and social services. At the same time, we've come to accept the sad notion that government can't do new things or solve tough problems—it's too big, too slow, and mired in bureaucracy. Not so, says former public official, now Harvard Business School professor, Mitchell Weiss. The truth is, entrepreneurial spirit and savvy in government are growing, transforming the public sector's response to big problems at all levels. The key, Weiss argues, is a shift from a mindset of Probability Government—overly focused on safe solutions and mimicking so-called best practices—to Possibility Government. This means public leadership and management that's willing to boldly imagine new possibilities and to experiment. Weiss shares the three basic tenets of this new way of governing: Government that can imagine: Seeing problems as opportunities and involving citizens in designing solutions Government that can try new things: Testing and experimentation as a regular part of solving public problems Government that can scale: Harnessing platform techniques for innovation and growth The lessons unfold in the timely episodes Weiss has seen and studied: the US Special Operations Command prototyping of a hoverboard for chasing pirates; a heroin hackathon in opioid-ravaged Cincinnati; a series of experiments in Singapore to rein in Covid-19; among many others. At a crucial moment in the evolution of government's role in our society, We the Possibility provides inspiration and a positive model, along with crucial guardrails, to help shape progress for generations to come. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Mitchell Weiss is a Professor of Management Practice in the Entrepreneurial Management unit and the Richard L. Menschel Faculty Fellow at Harvard Business School. He created and teaches the school's course on Public Entrepreneurship. He also teaches The Entrepreneurial Manager course in the first year of the MBA Program. Prior to joining HBS in 2014, Mitch was Chief of Staff and a partner to Boston's Mayor Thomas Menino. During this time, he co-founded the Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics.
Mitchell Weiss is a Professor of Management Practice in the Entrepreneurial Management unit and the Richard L. Menschel Faculty Fellow at Harvard Business School. He created and teaches the school's course on Public Entrepreneurship. He also teaches The Entrepreneurial Manager course in the first year of the MBA Program. Prior to joining HBS in 2014, Mitch was Chief of Staff and a partner to Boston's Mayor Thomas Menino. During this time, he co-founded the Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics.--Vince Thompson from www.meltalt.com, is back talking Super Bowl.Fun conversation about iconic legend Hank Aaron.
Kathryn interviews Harlan Cohen, NY Times bestselling author of “Win or Learn: The Naked Truth About Turning Every Rejection into Your Ultimate Success.” A leading expert on social and emotional learning, leadership, grit, resilience, college readiness, navigating change, parenting and getting comfortable with the uncomfortable, he's appeared in The NY Times, The Washington Post and on the Today Show. Kathryn also interviews Professor of Management Practice, Harvard Business School Mitchell Weiss, author of “We the Possibility: Harnessing Public Entrepreneurship to Solve Our Most Urgent Problems.” Weiss believes that governments can imagine, try new things and serve the many. He lays the framework for identifying your wants, identifying the risks necessary to pursue them and finding success no matter what the outcome. He created and teaches HBS's courses on Public Entrepreneurship and Entrepreneurial Management and co-founded the Boston Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics.
Kathryn interviews Harlan Cohen, NY Times bestselling author of “Win or Learn: The Naked Truth About Turning Every Rejection into Your Ultimate Success.” A leading expert on social and emotional learning, leadership, grit, resilience, college readiness, navigating change, parenting and getting comfortable with the uncomfortable, he's appeared in The NY Times, The Washington Post and on the Today Show. Kathryn also interviews Professor of Management Practice, Harvard Business School Mitchell Weiss, author of “We the Possibility: Harnessing Public Entrepreneurship to Solve Our Most Urgent Problems.” Weiss believes that governments can imagine, try new things and serve the many. He lays the framework for identifying your wants, identifying the risks necessary to pursue them and finding success no matter what the outcome. He created and teaches HBS's courses on Public Entrepreneurship and Entrepreneurial Management and co-founded the Boston Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics.
Kathryn interviews Harlan Cohen, NY Times bestselling author of “Win or Learn: The Naked Truth About Turning Every Rejection into Your Ultimate Success.” A leading expert on social and emotional learning, leadership, grit, resilience, college readiness, navigating change, parenting and getting comfortable with the uncomfortable, he's appeared in The NY Times, The Washington Post and on the Today Show. Kathryn also interviews Professor of Management Practice, Harvard Business School Mitchell Weiss, author of “We the Possibility: Harnessing Public Entrepreneurship to Solve Our Most Urgent Problems.” Weiss believes that governments can imagine, try new things and serve the many. He lays the framework for identifying your wants, identifying the risks necessary to pursue them and finding success no matter what the outcome. He created and teaches HBS's courses on Public Entrepreneurship and Entrepreneurial Management and co-founded the Boston Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics.
Kathryn interviews Harlan Cohen, NY Times bestselling author of “Win or Learn: The Naked Truth About Turning Every Rejection into Your Ultimate Success.” A leading expert on social and emotional learning, leadership, grit, resilience, college readiness, navigating change, parenting and getting comfortable with the uncomfortable, he's appeared in The NY Times, The Washington Post and on the Today Show. Kathryn also interviews Professor of Management Practice, Harvard Business School Mitchell Weiss, author of “We the Possibility: Harnessing Public Entrepreneurship to Solve Our Most Urgent Problems.” Weiss believes that governments can imagine, try new things and serve the many. He lays the framework for identifying your wants, identifying the risks necessary to pursue them and finding success no matter what the outcome. He created and teaches HBS's courses on Public Entrepreneurship and Entrepreneurial Management and co-founded the Boston Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics.
On today’s episode of Catalysts for Change, Jill talks to Mitchell Weiss, Richard L. Menschel and Professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School. The former chief of staff to Mayor Thomas Menino of Boston, Jill talks to Mitch about his new book, We the Possibility. At Harvard Business School, Mitch teaches a course on Public Entrepreneurship and also teaches the Entrepreneurial Manager for first year students in the MBA program. Before coming to Harvard, Mitch was the chief of staff and partner to Mayor Menino up until 2014. While working at City Hall, Mitch was a major figure in shaping New Urban Mechanics, Boston’s municipal innovation strategy. Mitch also was on Mayor Menino’s staff during the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, where he helped to oversee recovery efforts as well as implementing the One Fund to provide support to survivors. Today marks the release of Mitch’s new book, We the Possibility, which focuses on government and innovation. We talk to Mitch about the contents in the book, the importance of his concept of possibility government and the difference between probability government, and more. If you would like to learn more about We the Possibility and obtain a copy, you can purchase it on Amazon. Check out the resources below to learn more about Mitch’s work, We the Possibility, and more. Resources We the Possibility Website Mitchell Weiss’ Bio Order on Amazon Connect with Mitch
Mainstream “smart” city discourse offers a technocentric, efficiency-driven utopian fantasy that elides or exacerbates many urban problems of the past and present. Significant critical literature has emerged in recent years that highlights the importance of lived experience in smart cities, wherein values of equity, quality of life, and sustainability are prioritized. This literature has focused on models that center people in the design and implementation of smart city plans. Instead of maximizing efficiency, these models strategically produce what I call meaningful inefficiencies into process and outcomes, or the intentionally designed productive lag in a system wherein users are able to explore, connect, and invent in a non-prescribed fashion. In this talk, Visiting Professor Eric Gordon will discuss a recent project in Boston, MA in collaboration with the Boston Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics, called Beta Blocks, that uses meaningful inefficiency as a structuring logic for sourcing, questioning and making decisions about public realm technologies. Eric Gordon is a visiting professor in Comparative Media Studies/Writing at MIT and a professor of Media Art at Emerson College, where he directs the Engagement Lab. His research focuses on the transformation of public life and governance in digital culture, and the incorporation of play into collaborative design processes. He is the editor of Civic Media: Technology, Design, Practice (MIT Press, 2016) and the author of Meaningful Inefficiencies: Civic Design in an Age of Digital Expediency (Oxford University Press, 2020). Video and transcript also available: https://cms.mit.edu/video-eric-gordon-meaningful-inefficiency-smart-city.
Design impacts everything around us, and so does government. Think of all the services you use and experience within local, state, and federal government. Everything from the DMV to elections to unemployment to city streets, government plays a significant role in our lives. Government is, in essence, a service provider. Like any service provider, these services and experiences are designed, either designed well or designed poorly — too often, our interactions with government are not great. On this episode to have two experts, civic designers who are working at different scales and levels of government. We talk about applying design within government, using creative problem solving and innovation to improve service, digital, and physical experiences. We speak with Sabrina Dorsaninvil, Director of Civic Design for the Boston Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics about their work in the urban environment. And we interview Anne Petersen, Director of Experience Design at 18F, an office of federal employees that collaborates with other agencies to improve how government serves the public through technology and more. Plus, we share our weekly dose of good design.For links to resources we discuss on this episode, visit our show page: Civic Design with Intention and Service at the Core
As the co-chairs of Boston's New Urban Mechanics, Nigel Jacob and Kris Carter are connecting the city's strengths of innovation and creativity to an experimental approach to learning in order to make living and working in Boston better for all its residents.
Civic design focuses on the common good, and no one quite sums up just how vital that is to our local communities than this week's guest, Sabrina Dorsainvil. As the director of civic design for the Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics in Boston, MA, she uses her skills as a designer and illustrator to develop strategic, human-centered designs that address some of the city's most complex issues.Of course, I was fascinated to learn more about this, so Sabrina described what civic design is about, how she approaches new projects, and the challenges she faces creating solutions that inform and serve hundreds of thousands of people. She also gave some great advice for designers and creatives who want to get more involved in their local communities, and even talked about her work as a design advisor for NY-based design studio designing the WE. Sabrina attributes trusting her passion as her main motivator for success, and I think you'll get inspired from hearing more about her story and her work!Sabrina Dorsainvil's WebsiteSabrina Dorsainvil on TwitterSabrina Dorsainvil on InstagramNew Urban Mechanics on TwitterLike this episode? Then subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, SoundCloud, Spotify, or wherever you find your favorite podcasts.Subscribe and leave us a 5-star rating and a review! Thanks so much to all of you who have already rated and reviewed us!Revision Path is a Glitch Media Network podcast, and is produced by Maurice Cherry and edited by Brittani Brown.You can also follow Revision Path on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Come chat with us! And thanks for listening!Powered by Simplecast. Sign up today for a 14-day free trial!
We are back! This time we are talking to Jaclyn Youngblood Chief of Staff at Boston Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics. Being around since 2010, they are a veteran in the space of civic research and renewal. We are talking about their approach using open office hours to engage with citizens and startups as well as their summer fellowship program and how it creates new perspective on the problems Boston is facing. Follow Jaclyn here: https://twitter.com/jaclyncristine, learn more about what the New Urban Mechanics have been doing here: https://www.boston.gov/departments/new-urban-mechanics and apply for next years summer fellowship here: https://www.boston.gov/departments/new-urban-mechanics/summer-fellowship
The Boston Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics, a research and development lab for city hall, develops new and creative ways to provide better services for the city’s residents. About a year ago, the office published the first volume of its Civic Research Agenda. In some respects, the document follows the trend of federal agencies publishing learning or evidence-building agendas. But Boston’s Civic Research Agenda doesn’t look like a formal government document: it’s colorful, with large font, photos, and cartoon-like illustrations. The authors also use personal pronouns to make it clear that Boston’s “new urban mechanics” want to have a conversation with you, the reader. The language is strategic: they want to welcome you in as a participant in deciding what local public policy issues to address, what questions to ask about them, and how to answer them. In this episode of On the Evidence, we discuss the Civic Research Agenda’s one year anniversary with three members of the New Urban Mechanics team: Nigel Jacob, the office’s co-chair and cofounder; Sabrina Dorsainvil, the office’s director of civic design; and Kim Lucas, the office’s civic research director. We also have a condensed Q&A version of the conversation available here: https://www.mathematica-mpr.com/commentary/boston-invites-community-to-set-a-civic-research-agenda
How can government become more transparent, collaborative and inclusive? The Open Gov conference call series focuses on case studies, challenges, ideas and solutions from communities across the country that are working to open up and invite people in. Featuring Alissa Black, Director of Government Affairs for Code for America, Nigel Jacob, Co-Chair of the Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics, and Aaron Ogle, Code for America Fellow in Philadelphia. Call recorded on March 24, 2011. Call notes online at bit.ly/hfAZLY.
How can government become more transparent, collaborative and inclusive? The Open Gov conference call series focuses on case studies, challenges, ideas and solutions from communities across the country that are working to open up and invite people in. Featuring Alissa Black, Director of Government Affairs for Code for America, Nigel Jacob, Co-Chair of the Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics, and Aaron Ogle, Code for America Fellow in Philadelphia. Recorded on March 24, 2011. Call notes available online at bit.ly/feUp6L.
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