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]]> http://s-p-r-a-w-l.com/blog/2009/08/18/won-g/feed/ 0 GO BAG project http://s-p-r-a-w-l.com/blog/2009/07/10/go-bag-project/ http://s-p-r-a-w-l.com/blog/2009/07/10/go-bag-project/#comments Fri, 10 Jul 2009 05:52:34 +0000 admin http://s-p-r-a-w-l.com/blog/?p=598 Last semester, as part of Service Design for Public Spaces, a class taught by Rachel Abrams, my fellow students and I produced GO4: A ‘Go Bag’ for New York’s recently laid-off.

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From the website:

“GO4 is a suite of services for New York’s New jobless, connecting people to resources they need for the arc of time between a layoff, surviving unemployment and getting back on their feet…

After 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina, New York City’s Office of Emergency Management (OEM) ran a campaign called Ready New York to prompt individuals to prepare a bag of essentials to have handy in case of emergency, whenever a natural or man-made disaster called for a quick exit out of town.

This year’s ‘Go Bag’ responds to New Yorkers facing a crisis of a different kind:
The economic downturn – intangible and invisible and not site-specific, but no less disastrous for some.

It’s a concept proposed by an architect and an interaction designer and articulated by a group of ITP grad students who live and work and study (in) NYC”

Click here to download the full presentation.

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It has since been picked up by Brian Lehrer of WNYC Radio under ‘Uncommon Economic Indicators,’ a project focusing on unusual manifestations of the downturn.  More info here.

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