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A refined drinking culture
Junto: The Craft Cocktail
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Junto: Rethinking Shelter
The Persepolis Junto
A discussion on The Complete Persepolis.
February 4, 2010 at 6pm
Led by:
Siobhan Reardon, President & Director of the Free Library of Philadelphia.
The discussion will begin at 7:00…
If you want something done right do it yourself
With perfect weather and a number of new faces in the crowd we gathered to discuss art discourse in Philadelphia. Rather, the current lack-thereof. There was plenty of frustration voiced regarding…
Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Our panel of librarians and technologists and a crowd of eager contributors met to discuss possible futures of the library.
Moderator Nate Hill is a blogger for the Public Library Association…
The Medical Cultural Revolution
Our latest gathering attempted to straighten the chicane of the Healthcare industry, specifically the storage and transmission of medical data. Mark Scrimshire of CareFirst BC and HealthCamp led a discussion with…
It takes a panel...
Creative communities, a selfish endeavor?! Certainly, shared individual aims are often achieved more easily through collaboration. These points go [somewhat] uncontested. Only a select few are capable of agape collaboration, the…
To Ludd or not to Ludd
Quoth moderator Dave Speers quoth Socrates, "An unexamined life is not worth living".
Access to the modern extensions of man have made the reflexive deconstruction of the self unavoidable. Or something…
Musical Darwinism
Our latest gathering of informed individuals pertained to the past, present, and future of the infirm Music Industry. Some backstory: EMI is in the middle of a large-scale layoff. Madonna now…
Music Distribution Junto
A panel discussion on the future of music distribution.
Jan. 17, 2008 at 6pm
Members of the Panel:
Mike Kiley, musician, The Mural and the Mint. He is giving his music…
Appropriateness is Godliness
There is an ongoing debate at P'unk Avenue, recently rekindled by a Design Observer article, regarding the value of giving a client "what they asked for" and giving a client…
The Design Junto
A panel discussion regarding empathy and egotism and their respective roles in the design process.
Nov. 29, 2007 at 6pm
Members of the Panel:
Scott Page, urban planner, Interface Studio Anthony…
Corner Office ≠ Corner Store: Urban Planning & The Workplace
Recently Alex (Gilbert) rediscovered this article by Malcolm Gladwell that Geoff had read when it was published in 2000. It recontextualizes the meat of Jane Jacobs's seminal 1961 book, "The Death…
Sitemaps for sore eyes
Members Josh Kopel and John Romanski posed an interesting problem for group postulation: is there a better easier faster cheaper way to map a project? After a few warm-up laps groups…
We enter conv'rsation
Junto now has a repository of Meeting Minutes and other corrillary Intellectual Property. We (a mix of Design Professionals, Developers, Architects, Journalists, and other Makers) continue to meet en mass to…