![]() And yet, it still astonishes me how quickly ‘open’ ideas are being accepted, built and implemented into city governments from the east to west coast. Change tends to be delivered slowly, as evident during President Obama’s re-election campaign this year when many of us had to remind ourselves that though some change has trickled down over the past four years, much of it has yet to come to pass due to the inherent processes of government bodies. Follow her on Twitter or you can contact her at open government movement in our country is well underway, though still brand new in terms relative to the pace of the workings of government. Jen also helps other businesses develop their content strategies and blogs about growth in downtown Raleigh, NC where she lives. Jennifer Wike is an Editor and contributor for, a community service website of Red Hat dedicated to highlighting the ways in which the ‘open source movement’ is shaping government, law, education, science and technology, and other areas of life. Sunlight Foundation is not responsible for the accuracy of any of the information within the guest blog. The design project will be presented to the City Council next month.Disclaimer: The opinions expressed by the guest blogger and those providing comments are theirs alone and do not reflect the opinions of the Sunlight Foundation or any employee thereof. All of these venues have to be designed into the plaza.” "You have to have places for people to sit and be alone, (and) you have to have places to pull chairs together and talk where they can eat lunch, have music. “He talked a lot about each space has to have multiple functions," Howe said. An urban planner from Project for Public Spaces, a New York nonprofit that specializes in public space, already has been consulted. The city is also relying on outside help. "So, by making a blank canvas and saying, 'Come help us think about it,' we can actually learn something about it.”Ī previous creative conference organized by Khalifa, called SparkCon, brought many ideas to the table that caught Raleigh Mayor Charles Meeker’s attention. “I think we have more talent than we think we do," she said. ![]() Community members will play out scenarios that could include vertical surfaces and interactive sound. Khalifa said they hope to get crazy ideas to inspire the process. Members of the creative community will hold a workshop Thursday night to talk through traditional, artistic and pragmatic design concepts. So, we just want to help facilitate the public and see what kind of neat ideas can come out,” said Aly Khalifa, owner of Designbox. “It’s pretty exciting that the city is considering opening this up and talking about what could be some flexible ideas, what could be some interesting ideas. It will be a good place for sitting in the daytime, for parties at night, and it will be surrounded by a lot of active uses,” Assistant City Manager Dan Howe said.Ĭity leaders are looking for homegrown art that expresses more of what Raleigh is about. “We are very confident it will be an even better place than Mr. Now, there's a new push for art in the plaza. President and Chief Executive Jim Goodmon in support of Plensa's project was taken off the table. City Manager Russell Allen said it wasn't the right fit, and the City Council agreed.Īrt supporters said Raleigh wasn't willing to embrace an international idea, and a $2.5 million donation from Capitol Broadcasting Co. The city hopes 2007 will be different, and members of the community will meet this week to brainstorm new ideas for a city plaza.Īrtist Jaume Plensa's plan for the plaza had lots of lights and lots of critics. Public art in downtown Raleigh didn't make it very far in 2006.
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