PUBLIC ACCESS

- technologies for communities and public
  use
- public forums or access in virtual or digital
  realms
- public presence or participation through
  new medias
- local | global, public | private concerns
- re-invention of geography and architecture

BEYOND UTILITY

- design beyond efficiency
- designing for new genres and modalities
- open systems and adaptable products
- designing for appropriation & sustainability
- experimental design methods and
  processes

CIVIC {MIS}BEHANIORS

- new roles and voices in the public sphere
- expression, community, and collectivism
- emerging tactics, strategies & forms of   authorship
- stakeholders and coalitions in public
  projects
- the front line between freedom and
  protection