On Wednesday, April 15th, we'll have our next Chicago IxDA meeting a review of Manifest Digital's entry in the PhizzPop design challenge held at SXSW: to design a digital experience that encourages a community to adopt a sustainable lifestyle. We'll also be discussing the process in generating the solution, and facilitating a discussion around engaging community-focused sustainability.
What's PhizzPop? It's a multi-company, multi-city design challenge hosted by Microsoft. Teams in 5 cities compete, with the winners from each city meeting in Austin for a final challenge at SXSW. Manifest Digital won the Chicago challenge last November, and competed in this final challenge in March, winning the People's Choice award for its solution. In response to the challenge, Manifest concepted a solution for the city of Austin called “Carbon Nation.” At its core, this solution is designed to integrate into a municipal structure at many levels: governmental, community, activist, and individual citizen. The team has built a core component that allows various audiences to manage and view their performance in improving the environment at www.CarbonNation.me. From this central point, a citizen can begin observing and improving their performance in the community and can participate in and celebrate the community’s improvement as a reduced energy and improved environmental consciousness takes hold. The team focused on tools that improve utility usage in the home, reduce travel and commuting, expose implications of shopping decisions, layout home improvements with the likes of solar panels, and reveal community performance, a holistic picture is built for the average citizen. Integrated marketing components and environmental advertising throughout the community further build involvement and momentum. Solar powered digital billboards, eco friendly paint on the curbs of successful neighborhood streets, and in-store displays create a sense of community and personal impact. Please be sure to *RSVP by Monday, April 13th* at the link below if you'd like to come, as we need to give names to security two days beforehand. RSVP: http://tinyurl.com/cy7eey Details: Wednesday, April 15th from 6:30-8pm Manifest Digital - *New office* 600 W. Chicago Ave., Ste 290 Chicago, IL 60654 Manifest will provide refreshments. See you there! ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
