With good panelists and an interesting venue given the subject (remember all the “collaboration” around the sign on the roof?!) this should be well worth attending tonight:
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WHITE STAG DISCUSSION: SEE YOU THERE…

Matt Davis was news editor of the Mercury from 2009 to May 2010.

7 replies on “Building A Collaborative City Talk Tonight”

  1. This is lame. This flyer (and post too) tells us exactly ZERO about what “Building a Collaborative City” is, the point of it, and what this group is trying to accomplish.

    Is it a city wonk art circle jerk or something?

    Communications 101 and PR FAIL.

  2. Seriously. I saw that flier and was all “ooh, shiny!”, which immediately lapsed into “uhgg, edward tufte would take that designer out back and drown him/her”.

  3. Will the collaboration be “sustainable”? Will there be “synergy”, and a new “paradigm”? Will there be self-righteous brow beating from vegan urban farmers and bike advocates?

  4. so let’s see a developer with three small buildings to his name, a former arch critic and local high culture design mag editor, and a dancer….

    wow. now that sounds like a serious line up to discuss collaborative urbanism.

    who needs the Bureau of Planning and Sustainable Development when we have this trio?

  5. Blabby – and don’t forget we need a vaguely foreign sounding title “Kumbacha” or “Pet-cha-catcha-later” or “Kumbaya” or something equally dumb and esoteric. And slideshows made on crappy KeyNote presentations. And maybe Ariel dancers? Portland has become such a parody of itself that they really should rename the website Stuff White People like to http://www.portlandonline.com

    Urban Junkie – I love you.

    Samuri Pizza Cats – Yes, let’s have tonight’s dialogue on visual information.

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