Hi All. Please find below the announcement of a new collaborative project that has been funded by The Architectural League of New York as part of the Situated Technologies exhibition, which will take place in September 2009. Apologies for cross-posting. Best, Laura http://www.situatedtechnologies.net/?q=node/89 BREAKOUT! Escape from the Office Key team members: Anthony Townsend (Research Director, Technology Horizons Program, Institute for the Future), Tony Bacigalupo (co- founder, CooperBricolage), Georgia Borden (Associate Director, DEGW), Dennis Crowley (founder dodgeball.com), Laura Forlano (Kauffman Fellow in Law, Information Society Project, Yale Law School), Sean Savage (co-founder, PariSoMa), Dana Spiegel (Executive Director, NYCwireless) Over a two week period, BREAKOUT! will return creative work to the streets of New York. Using co-working as a model, and injecting lightweight versions of essential office infrastructure into urban public spaces, BREAKOUT! will explore new and productive niches for working outside of traditional office buildings. As the 21st century moves towards a knowledge-based economy, conventional office spaces are becoming obsolete; people no longer need to co-locate in order to access shared tools and resources. BREAKOUT! seeks to create a new architecture for the creative city by appropriating public spaces for the collaborative knowledge work that drives the contemporary city. Laura Forlano, Ph.D. Kauffman Fellow in Law Information Society Project Yale Law School