Friday, January 15, 2016

The Future of Smart: Oakland Youth Help Their City See Its Way to 2045

The U.S. Department of Transportation is challenging mid-size cities like Oakland to use bold and innovative thinking to improve safety, enhance mobility and address climate change. Only one city will be awarded $50 million to demonstrate how new “smart” technologies can help achieve these important outcomes. Mayor Libby Schaaf thinks that Oakland can be that one city, but only by inviting everyone to help.

The Future of Smart is a special invitation to Oakland youth to join this community-wide effort by helping their city see its way to 2045. The City is partnering with the UC Berkeley Center for Cities + Schools (CC+S) to utilize their proven Y-PLAN Roadmap for change to guide the visioning process.
  1. Start up. Learn more about the “Smart City Challenge”; connect online with the “Smart Oakland Project” team. 
  2. Make sense of Oakland. Study the ways that people and things move in, around and out of your neighborhood and other parts of Oakland; ask some people abut transportation safety, mobility and climate concerns; teamwork and collaboration are key!
  3. Into action. Inspired by your new understanding of our City’s current transportation problems and the future possibilities, brainstorm together and generate an innovative proposal in the form of a short essay, artwork, video, or map to respond to the challenge.
  4. Go public. As soon as possible, but no later than April 1st, 2016, submit your inspired creations to the Smart Oakland Project team by emailing smartoakland@gmail.com.
  5. Looking forward and back. Join the Mayor and other officials in the Council Chambers in mid-April to celebrate our city-wide effort to envision a Smart(er) Oakland.
The Future of Smart initiative is sponsored by the City of Oakland and UC Berkeley’s Center for Cities + Schools. We ask that all essays, maps and artwork include a title or short description of the work’s importance (in the words of the student-artist). For date & time of the celebration, categories & prizes, instructional materials and related information, please visit this site again soon. Please email your questions or comments to mford@oaklandnet.com

Download The Future of Smart flyer here.


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  1. AnonymousJanuary 17, 2016 at 9:15 AM

    Flax- art for kids?- partner for the grant?

    “Venerable art supply store Flax Art & Design [http://flaxart.com/] is relocating to Oakland. Flax, which has been serving the Bay Area since 1938, will open a 14,500-square-foot store Downtown at 1501 Martin Luther King Way. The City has been seeking strong retail tenants to complement Downtown’s rich entertainment and restaurant scene. “Flax is the perfect fit for Downtown. It will be a great anchor for that area and serve our creative community,” says Downtown project coordinator Brian Kendall. The store is scheduled to open late next month.”

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    1. Michael FordJanuary 17, 2016 at 10:47 AM

      Thanks, Anonymous! Not sure what the source is for your quote, but here's another story on this super development from SFGate: http://www.sfchronicle.com/realestate/article/Longtime-Market-Street-arts-supply-store-Flax-6736460.php

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