Save the date: MakeShift 2026 โ happening this May 20 + 21 in NYC alongside NYC Design Week.
Organized with Superbloom, Helpful Places and SVA, itโs focused on a core question:
How do we make digital systems in our cities more visible, understandable, and trustworthy?
The program includes:
โ sessions on civic tech, AI, governance, digital rights
โ DTPR-based design challenge projects
More soon ๐
Register here: https://luma.com/602z282n
๐ฃ Final call: MakeShift 2026 call for proposals closes this Friday!
MakeShift 2026 is asking what it would look like to design technology in public spaces that people can actually see, understand, and trust.
Weโre looking for sessions or design challenge projects using #DTPR
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Deadline: Friday, April 10
๐ MakeShift 2026 | NYC Design Week | School of Visual Arts
โ Apply here: https://lnkd.in/etpg7s4a
๐ Read our guide: https://lnkd.in/encUDxwz
Last call for NYC School of Data tomorrow, hosted by BetaNYC.
Weโre running a hands-on workshop with Helpful Places on #DTPR for #AI and designing for transparency in public systems.
๐ Making the Invisible Visible: Workshopping a New Open Data Standard for AI Processes
๐ March 28, 2:30pm - 3:30pm EDT
๐ CUNY School of Law, Queens (Room 2-116)
Register here๐ https://nycsodata26.sched.com/event/2I0ou/making-the-invisible-visible-workshopping-a-new-open-data-standard-for-ai-processes
๐ฃ Submissions for MakeShift 2026 are open โ the deadline is approaching!
Weโre inviting proposals that explore how technology in public space can be made more visible, accountable, and understandable.
Sessions + design challenge projects are welcome
๐ Call for Proposals Deadline: April 10
Apply here: forms.gle/gbVY6rc93JSmPAcU8
Weโre excited to be hosting a session at NYC School of Data with BetaNYC later this month.
Weโll introduce an early draft of DTPR for AI, an open standard designed to make AI decision-making more legible to the people it affects.
The session will include real NYC examples and a hands-on co-design workshop to help improve the standard.
๐ March 28, 2:30โ3:30 PM
๐ CUNY School of Law
Register: https://lnkd.in/gHKFbDwz
Last week, Helpful Places and Superbloom came together during @NSF I-Corps training, supported by the National Science Foundation.
The training was linked to our NSF-funded DTPR project and focused on ecosystem research, interviewing, impact measurement, and mapping complex systems.
Many thanks to our friends at School of Visual Arts MFA in ixD for hosting us for the week. We now move into the next phase of the project with interviews and research.
We're teaming up with Helpful Places to grow the open-source ecosystem around DTPR.
This program is made possible with grant support from the U.S. @NSF
This next phase is about:
๐ Seeing โ making invisible tech in public spaces visible
๐ ๏ธ Building โ research, community spaces, and shared governance
๐ Shifting โ moving transparency from one-off pilots to a public expectation
Read the announcement here:
https://superbloom.design/learning/blog/growing-the-dtpr-ecosystem-a-new-chapter-for-digital-trust-and-transparency/
Helpful Places and Superbloom are excited to team up in order to grow the open-source ecosystem around Digital Trust for Places & Routines (DTPR). This next chapter isnโt just about launching new work. Itโs about expanding a shared story: seeing the invisible digital systems around us, building practical tools that make transparency meaningful for everyone, shifting norms, and setting new expectations for how technology is introduced into communities.
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