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Brainstorming the creation and use of an intuitive graphic website with 3d visualization tools for sharing ideas on community development possibilities. User collaboration wikis and forums for past, present and future visualizations and discussions.

Users contribute photos and information to help develop virtual recreations of their town in various years past, current, and future possibilities. Users can search and 'land' in various 'times' of the same town.

Becomes a searchable and sortable archive of user-contributed content...(self-assembling ((memory palaces)))

Collaboratively Creating Utopias. Ideally a tool-based advanced wiki forum where users can create, share,discuss and collaborate on community development visualizations. Allows for freedom of expression/opinion, formation of groups based on common interests, thinktanks, news. Giving the citizens a voice in an ongoing ONLINE design charrette (http://www.eere.energy.gov/buildings/info/design/wholebuilding/conductdesign.html). Resource for community leaders. An easy way to see and discuss whether certain additions/changes to the present community structure would be desireable. Subgroups form to rally projects they agree on.

VersionB is A teacher's guide and program for use in schools as a special 3week(?) project. Student awards for best cdv presentation/project.

Each town/city has it's own main page/section and wiki. for example: cdv.net/ny/southampton brings you to member login

or mycdv.net/ny/southampton member login

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Table of contents

1 Past, Present and Future 2 Virtual 3 Global 4 Local - City & Neighbourhoods

Past, Present and Future

self-assembling searchable archive of tagged photographs, videos and memories by location and date....main streets are recreated through collage of digital photographs... example: main street southampton 1945 utilizes flickr tags and youtube tags

Video Volunteers interview the elderly and archive their memories of specific places...these sound/video clips are embedded into the maps, clickable...

Virtual

mapping and virtual visualizations

• NEW= Google releases SketchUp (http://sketchup.google.com/) a free 3-D modelling software with which you can build and texture houses -- or billboards, for example, and then place them in Google Earth.(=)
• Cyburbia: Feedback from the Virtual (http://www.livejournal.com/users/avad/96971.html?mode=reply)
• Visions using photo manipulation (http://www.sierraclub.org/sprawl/community/transformations/index.asp)
• Platial.com (http://platial.com) and Mappr.com (http://mappr.com/)
• Walkable Communities
• Hybrid Spaces
• EXPLORATION AND STUDY OF DESIGN AND SOCIAL COMMUNITIES on SecondLife (http://lindenlab.com/press_story_17.php)
• Creating community prototypes in SecondLife/Virtual Worlds
  • City (http://www.cloudpad.org/wiki/index.php/BOREALIS_CITYBorealis) model on SecondLife
  • BetterWorldIsland on SecondLife
  • Pier10 off BetterWorldIsland (http://www.omidyar.net/group/bwi/news/13/) FunFunFundraising Virtual Amusement Park

• Connecting First and Third Worlds in symbiosis

Global

• Connecting First and Third Worlds in symbiosis with
  • Awareness: Visualizations and Statistics
    • Twin Cities/ A Worldwide Connectory (http://www.omidyar.net/user/u494644901/news/0/)
    • WorldMapper (http://www.sasi.group.shef.ac.uk/worldmapper/index.html)
    • Material World (http://www.pghs.org/library/material_world.htm) a Global Family Portrait
    • Fundraising for 'Sister Cities'. Weekend shopping with Charity focus.
  • Sustainable Development Projects
  • Fair Trade
  • Community Arts Workshops
    • PeaceTiles (http://www.tagstudio.net/devarts/index.php?q=peacetiles)
    • arts (http://www.cloudpad.org/wiki/index.php/OLA_artsOLA)
    • Amoration (http://amoration.org/)/Sugar Shack (http://www.thesugarshack.org/)
  • artisan empowerment
    • International (http://www.cloudpad.org/wiki/index.php/CoopaCraft_InternationalCoopaCraft)
  • traditional craft
  • microphilanthropy
  • microloans
  • Municipal Dump projects
    • Phillipines- Recycled foil juice containers into fairtrade goods (http://www.preda.net/article/r05050501copy2.html)
    • Guatemala- Fotokids, Out of the Dump Photogrpahy project (http://www.theepochtimes.com/news/6-2-11/38054.html)
    • Cambodia- Center for Children's Happiness (http://www.cchcambodia.org/index.html)

Example: Tsunami Reconstruction in India

(project of Architecture for Humanity)

Ambedkar Nagar Community Center -- Creating a sustainable building while honoring local tradition (http://www.architectureforhumanity.org/programs/India/)

"As you can tell from the plan this is far more than a community center. It is also a childcare center, a playground/theater, a library, a meeting place for newly formed womens’ cooperatives and a center for livelihoods projects and technology training. "

- AFH Floor Plan Illustration (http://www.architectureforhumanity.org/programs/India/colored-floor-plan.jpg)

Local - City & Neighbourhoods

How would you change/evolve your own town?

Brainstorms and visualizations:

• CDV Southampton (http://www.cloudpad.org/wiki/index.php/CDV_Southampton)
• CDV Riverhead (http://www.cloudpad.org/wiki/index.php/CDV_Riverhead)

• ((CDV Bookmarks/Resources))

• West Toronto Railpath Park (http://railpath.communitybicyclenetwork.org/): please see images for examples of CDV in action=

• [1] (http://www.murmurtoronto.camurmur): you are hear
  • an audio archive of 3 Toronto neighbourhoods