designcharrettes

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The Design Charrette will be held at the Upham Hotel, located in downtown Santa Barbara. Please mention the Center for Information Technology and Society when booking. Call 1-800-727-0876 for reservations.

Address:
1404 De la Vina Street
Santa Barbara, CA 93101

Design charrettes are designed to be immersive experiences that move quickly and require full engagement. That means our schedule is different than most events you have attended in two ways: (1) it is fully packed with what appears to be a breakneck pace, and (2) instead of formal breaks where group energy across all groups dissipates, we will ask that individuals excuse themselves for a short break whenever they need a break while their groups continue working. Lunch will be the only large group break.

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CITS draws on a decade of experience with interdisciplinary research on the relationship between technology and society. With several dozen research affiliates from across the faculty of UC Santa Barbara, one of the original hubs to the Internet, CITS has substantial faculty expertise on a wide variety of technology-society topics. In this particular design charrette, lead faculty organizers are as follows:

Changemakers: Tools and Strategies for Digital Advocacy, part of the Santa Barbara Social Innovation Design Charrettes series, offers activists, leaders of non-profits and advocacy groups, foundation representatives, companies, and academics a way to collaboratively design and vet new ideas for using new media in advocacy. The series is an invitation-only event for leaders who are developing answers to questions such as:

- How to capture people's attention for public causes in a world crowded with channels and messages?

The Design Charrette Model

Rapidly changing environments mean that organizations must solve problems that did not exist a decade ago, like managing employees’ use of social media in the workplace, creating credibility and reputations in web space, or dealing with mobile, ubiquitous computing by consumers, to name just a few.