Spring Blooms in the Hackable City

Good weather is here, and the hackable events are poppin'. A quick rundown:

Providence Open Market: gotta love how the organizers of this outdoor market [downtown | local vendors | Saturdays] are using the online discussion forums of Urban Planet (see Hackable Places, below left) to communicate to the public, get feedback, and decide what changes to make to this new community experiment. Very smart.

New design for the Waterfront Park: have to give the city props for holding an open competition for the park design, and opening the final designs up for public feedback. Now that the winner has been picked, it deserves its own post, which I'll accomplish later.

ProvFlux 2007: personifying hackability in the art world, ProvFlux "brings together artists, theorists, urban adventurers, and the public to share their visions of what the city can be, and to take action to make it a reality. It is a completely free, unjuried, and 100% participatory event." Run by the Pipsters, which stands for a whole bunch of things, simultaneously. These folks are crazy (in a good way), I think they may be my first Hackable City interview.