In addition to the 4Culture Doors Open Facilities Grant for Sky Artworks (see our previous post), we are proud to share that we at Third Place Technologies have also received a three-year Sustained Support grant from 4Culture — and that…
4Culture Open Doors Facilities Grant for Sky Artworks
We’re so happy to announce that Third Place Technologies has received a 4Culture Doors Open Facilities grant for building improvements for Sky Artworks – our arts-oriented community center including a collaborative art studio, meeting space, makerspace, and gallery in Skykomish,…
Summary of Activities for 2023
For a 4Culture sustained support grant we put together this slide deck as our report of activities for 2023, which gives a good overview of not only our activities, but our approach in fostering collaboration at the intersection of art,…
Electric Sky 2024 Wrap-up
(CC LinkedIn post: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/genevieve-tremblay_electricsky-typonexus-skyartworks-activity-7213997750823047169-CguH?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop) Epic 8th hashtag#ElectricSky 2024 Art + Tech Retreat: SUN, WIND, WATER! ☀️ 💨 💦 THIRD PLACE TECHNOLOGIES invited artists, designers, and creative technologists to dive into the realms of renewable energy and art for a our…
2024 Community Accelerator Grant Recipient
We are delighted to announce that Third Place Technologies is once again a proud recipient of a Community Accelerator Grant, funded by The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation and awarded by ArtsFund. This unrestricted grant enhances our work across King…
Electric Sky 2024 Theme: Sun Wind Water
We’re excited to announce Electric Sky‘s date and theme for 2024! As you know, each year we orient our collaborative installations, workshops, and Saturday night art show around a theme. We are pleased to announce for 2024 our theme is Sun…
Seattle City of the Future Wrap-up
First of all, let me say, Wow! What a fantastic show, with such great energy, a seamless setup and takedown, open hours spanning 4 weekends, and two super fun parties — all crammed into two months! We estimate between the parties…
Get your Tickets Now for Seattle City of the Future
We are extremely excited after several months of fundraising, recruiting artists, and setting up the space, we are now selling tickets to our immersive art experience, Seattle City of the Future We cannot thank everyone enough for all the hard…
Call for Artists & Art Groups
CALL FOR ARTIST IS CLOSED! Learn everything about the show and buy tickets at: Seattle: City of the Future Artist? Technologist? Civic Activist? Interdisciplinary Art Group? We invite you to apply to participate in an immersive art experience exploring our…
Bling Ball Wrap Up
It takes a village to raise a fundraiser. At Third Place Technologies, our mission is to build community through collaboration — helping diverse, creative people connect and make things fabulous. Events such as the Bling Ball are great exemplars of…
The Bling Ball
Pleas join us at The Bling Ball The New Years Eve gala of 2022! Come dressed as your best bling self, and dance the night away at a benefit to support the local arts and LGBTQ+ communities in Capitol Hill,…
Teal Building Art Place
We at Third Place Technologies are excited to partner with Tam Nguyen and the Tamarind Tree Family, the new owners of the “Teal Building” on 619 E Pine St, to help activate the space with arts programming through the summer…
A Tale of Two Collaboration Spaces
2022 is our first full year we have had our collaboration spaces up and running, including Sky Artworks and Passable, and we have been very excited to see the impact we have already had on the community development in these…
Electric Sky 2022 A Midsummer Nights Tempest
It was great to have Electric Sky up and running full steam for 2022, a challenge given Covid-19. Our theme this year was A Midsummer Night’s Tempest, and the fairy village workshop and exhibition in the trees in particular was…
Sky Artworks
We are very excited to announce after several years of searching we have successfully found a home for Sky Artworks in the Town of Skykomish! Sky Artworks was just an idea several years ago, as we dreamt of finding a…
Electric Sky 2018
We are really excited to be hosting Electric Sky again for 2018. The event has evolved into more than just a hackathon — it is an arts incubator for people at the intersection of art and technology. Because of the grants…
Spokin Focus Group October 18th
To help us prioritize bugs and features to fix and implement in Spokin we are organizing a focus group for October 18th with the help of Open Seattle. If you are a member of the civic tech community please consider…
City of Seattle’s Investment in Smart City Technology
We were very excited to get an email from Michael Mattmiller, the City of Seattle’s CTO, outlining aspects of Mayor Murray’s proposed 2017-18 budget presented to the city council. We thought it was worth quoting in full but wanted in…
Participating in Microsoft’s Hack for Good program
This year we participated in the Microsoft “Hack for Good” subdivision of their oneweek hackathon, working with several people internal to Microsoft to explore a problem for Spokin. The Nonprofit Hackathon session was brought to us by Microsoft Philanthropies, the Garage and 501 Commons,…
Spokin Soft Release Party
This July we hosted a party in the cloud room celebrating the “soft release” of Spokin. The site is still pretty rough around the edges, but we knew it was time to start engaging users and soliciting feedback as…
Engaging with Tech Creatives through Electric Sky
We were very happy to help organize and sponsor Electric Sky this June, it has proven to be a great event for engaging with — and fostering the growth of — the community of tech creatives at the intersection of art…
Thank You UW Entrepreneurial Law Clinic
We want to express our gratitude to the UW Entrepreneurial Law Clinic for providing a review of our organizing documents and our plans for our intellectual property. For the most part everything was in order. The most important heads-up was…
Spokin Visualization at the UW iSchool Capstone Event
This spring we had the opportunity to work with a student group at the UW for an iSchool capstone project. As a final project before graduation, a team of students created a general purpose network visualization for our Spokin communities using D3.…
Demo’d Spokin at the City of Seattle’s Open Data Policy launch event
As users of the City of Seattle’s open data, we’ve been really excited about the proactive stance the City has been taking toward increasing transparency and engagement with citizens through their Open Data program. They recently “launched” a…
Ignite Talk: The Data is In: (Top 5 Ways) How to Improve your Neighborhood Community’s Wellbeing
Our Executive Director Shelly Farnham gave an Ignite talk last week to a sold out house of over 800 people at Town Hall last week. Below is the video, and a slightly extended version of the talk in text. The Data Is…
Network visualization in Spokin
Network visualizations are a risky feature to add to community tool. While they can provide a good overview of a community and its connections, they require some training to interpret, so are often not well received by every day users.…
Announcing our R&D Consulting Division
We are pleased to announce the opening of our consulting division, focused on helping new technologies positively impact people’s lives through user research, social data analytics, prototyping, and knowledge sharing. As a non-profit research and development organization with the mission…
Introducing Spokin
The CTO of the City of Seattle saw our presentation of our community well-being report pages at the DSSG program, and asked that we demo Spokin and the community well-being report pages to the mayor’s office. We did this last…
Electric Sky: An Experimental One Day “Campathon” Fostering Art & Tech
One of our target creative communities for our technology interventions and community engagement activities is the art and tech community in the Pacific Northwest. As such, we helped host “Electric Sky” this summer, as a way to bring together people…
Wrapping Up Our Community Wellbeing Report Pages Prototype at DSSG
During the summer of 2015, we were selected to participate in the University of Washington’s eScience Institute Data Science for Social Good summer incubator program, where we worked with an interdisciplinary group of graduate student fellows and faculty research scientists…