Hello all!

The Move MIT is proud to announce the launch of our new platforms on MIT Open, and on Medium! Please visit these new online spaces for all of podcast and blog post content, as well as resources to on civic design principles and practices.

While our site was under construction, we have been busy working with some amazing community partners. Notably, we have been collaborating with Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC)and Howard Stein Hudsonon planning IGNITE: a community engagement professionals mixerhappening TONIGHT from 5-7PM at Scholar’s Bistro! The Move’s founder, Ceasar McDowell, will be delivering a keynote address. Be sure to stop by to connect others who are passionate about strengthening civic and community engagement in their work!

We are also proud to announce a preview of our second podcast season. In our first season, we focused on public spaces of discourse. We met with people in government and civic society organizations, and discussed how governance could be redesigned to improve public engagement processes. Through our conversations, we learned that there isn't a clear delineation of where civic life begins and ends? Political and social preferences are perhaps as evident by where we choose to shop, as how we choose to vote. Now, in season 2 we're tackling this bigger question: What are the private spaces of civic discourse? We are focusing on the new players shaping civic space and civic life: retailers, developers, social media firms, co-working spaces and more. 

Stay tuned for the release of this new season in late May – and be sure to drop by the community engagement professionals mixer tonight!

Thank you,

-The Move Team

(Professor Ceasar McDowell, Julia Curbera, Misael Galdamez, Ayushi Roy)