Studio C hosts Friday event to generate ideas for community engagement

If you are interested in civic engagement and working within the community at Syracuse, come on down this Friday to The Warehouse on the fourth floor at 3 p.m. It is a really great opportunity to get involved with the community, the Connective Corridor and the Near Westside.

“We created these workshops to engage students with the community and see where the possible areas of collaboration could happen and possibilities of new projects and social ventures,” said Chris Guimarin, communications design major and co-coordinator of Studio C.

Studio C will be hosting a creative gathering of students from all majors who are interested in civic engagement and social entrepreneurship. At the event, students will help generate ideas and teams for the social/nonprofit sector of the RvD IDEA Awards through IDEA Syracuse, and to develop projects that will build portfolio work, open career doors, launch or support new community ventures, or connect on an idea that can really help a local nonprofit organization or local business.

“What we want is to find students who are genuinely and truly interested in the idea of building community through engagement and advancing public good through public interest and design,” said Linda Hartsock. “It’s about making a difference in the world.”

The best ideas and projects will get space in Studio C – a brand new collaborative co-working space designed by civic engagement students for civic engagement students. Think of it as a civic engagement incubator of creative brains, working on projects that build a better community through public interest design.

Show up! That’s what making change is about, right?

For more information, contact Chris Guimarin, communications design major and co-coordinator of Studio C, at [email protected] or Quinton Fletchall, industrial and interactions design major and co-coordinator of Studio C at [email protected].

Check out the article about last week’s event:http://dailyorange.com/2013/02/building-the-future-studio-c-encourages-students-interested-in-civil-engagement-to-brainstorm-ideas/

Chris Guimarin

Class of 2014

Studio C Co-Coordinator