Tag: occupy sandy

  • How to Run Collaborative Projects That Don’t Fall Prey to Bureaucracy

    How to Run Collaborative Projects That Don’t Fall Prey to Bureaucracy

    This piece was published at Sharable on July 21st, 2017. Today, when people call something “bureaucratic,” they usually mean that in a negative sense, but bureaucracy didn’t always have this negative connotation. About 100 years ago when many professional bureaucracies were being built, they were seen as a means of bringing quality control, predictability, and integrity to administrations. But…

  • Occupy Sandy and the Rise of Open Aid at AIANY on 9/10/16

    Occupy Sandy and the Rise of Open Aid at AIANY on 9/10/16

    The AIANY invited me to present my perspective on Occupy Sandy at their event “Stand Up! How to be Part of the Solution after a Disaster.” My presentation argues that Occupy Sandy, and the mutual aid work of its predecessor Occupy Wall Street, were physical-world manifestations of the “Open Aid” trend taking place in the disaster relief…