marco castro cosio

Artist, designer & curator. @itpalumni previously @queensmuseum @metmuseum ❤@MetMediaLab IG: @macascos

[Alice Rawsthorn @alicerawsthorn]

Thank you to The Climate Council for choosing our book, Design Emergency: Building a Better Future, co-written by Paola Antonelli (@curiousoctopus) and I, as one of its Ten Inspiring Books About Climate Change Action. https://t.co/IWJfHdLZmI
#designemergency
@phaidonpress

[marco castro cosio @macascos]

🚨 @SenSchumer @ChrisCoons: activists from the Global South have one clear message: climate justice can’t wait. We need you to deliver the climate finance promised by @POTUS at last year's #UNGA. The clock is ticking – will you act? #ClimateJustice

[Los Angeles Times @latimes]

Kim Kardashian's decision to wear Marilyn Monroe's iconic "Happy Birthday, Mr. President" gown to the #MetGala has conservators, curators and fashion historians baffled and worried that the incident sets a dangerous precedent.

Here's why. https://t.co/kVIjfJZqI0

[Mark Hansen @cocteau]

Consider applying for a Magic Grant! This is a seriously fantastic opportunity. We have sponsored such amazing projects in our 10 years of grant making.

[Alex Vadukul @AlexVadukul]

Some NYC food/drink news out of East Village tonight..

Stepped into Village Yokocho for dinner and server informed me the beloved izakaya is closing at end of month due to massive rent hike. But they explained this also affects legendary speakeasy Angel’s Share, opened in 1993.

[Matt MacVey @Matt_MacVey]

Cool opportunity to build tools for Local News with the great team @LocalAtBrown @BrownInstitute

[Paola Antonelli @curiousoctopus]

“You can’t be silent”: how designers are rallying in Ukraine https://t.co/jH6XnQWyQL

[The Brown Institute @BrownInstitute]

The @BrownInstitute @columbiajourn is hiring! You should have a history of “creative research” that expands on traditional forms of journalism &media, and want to support and inspire new entrepreneurs working at the intersection of tech and media. Join us! https://t.co/T6hnI8BZmT

[New York Times Arts @nytimesarts]

Barbed wire, basements, lots of paperwork: How museums in Ukraine are scrambling to protect their collections. “We had plans for what to do prewar,” the director of Ukraine’s Museum of Freedom said, “but now it is a war, it’s totally different.” https://t.co/0CMt8yOUOC

[marco castro cosio @macascos]

Congratulations!!

[Sree Sreenivasan (sreenet.substack.com) @sree]

Start of an epic 🧵.

In July, I have the honor of joining @Cronkite_ASU to run #CronkitePro, a new program providing lifelong learning for professionals around the globe.

So grateful to Dean @BattintoBattsJr and his colleagues for giving me this opportunity to work w/ them. 1/

[The Brown Institute @BrownInstitute]

Announcing the 2022-23 "Magic Grant" competition! Each year the @BrownInstitute awards about $1M in grants to help you “follow your passion and create original content,” to paraphrase Helen Gurley Brown. Our “Magic Grants” are a unique blend of technology and media.

[The Brown Institute @BrownInstitute]

The @BrownInstitute @columbiajourn announces its "Innovation Challenge in Journalism, Media and Technology", a program to nurture new ventures. Winners receive cash prizes and fellowships for Brown's Summer Entrepreneurship Program which could award up to $100k to a winning team.

[Columbia Journalism School @columbiajourn]

Apply by Jan. 15 to Columbia's Dual M.S. in Journalism and Computer Science, which trains a new generation of computationally literate journalists - or journalistically literate computer scientists - to redefine journalism as we know it. Watch a video: https://t.co/QiJWoQbHIL

[Data & Society @datasociety]

Join us on Sept. 15th @ 4pm ET as we discuss "A City is Not a Computer: Other Urban Intelligences" with author & anthropologist @shannonmattern, @everestpipkin, @JasmineMcNealy & Ever Bussey: https://t.co/92rPbU0848

[The Brown Institute @BrownInstitute]

2021-22 Magic Grantees @moniquitri and her collaborator William (Greg) Odum have proposed a bilingual online repository to help collectives of searchers, families, journalists, and researchers seeking information regarding Mexico’s 88,000+ victims of forced disappearance.

[GLAM-WIKI @glamwiki]

Lessons from cultural institutions and libraries that went open access in 2020-2021, by @giofontenelle for #IMD2021 https://t.co/VKCJgumBgE