Jesse Shapins's Email Addresses & Phone Numbers

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Director of Product @ BuzzFeed Working with an incredible team making BuzzFeed.com and our BuzzFeed apps awesome experiences. From February 2015 to April 2017 (2 years 3 months) Greater New York City AreaCo-Founder/Associate Director @ metaLAB (at) Harvard metaLAB (at) Harvard is an experimental research unit hosted at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society dedicated to innovation in the arts, media and humanities. The lab is founded on the belief that some of the key research challenges and opportunities of the new millennium, not to mention crucial questions about experience in a connected world, about the boundaries of culture and nature, about democracy and social justice, transcend divisions between the arts, humanities and sciences; between the academy, industry, and the public sphere; between theoretical and applied knowledge. From January 2011 to December 2012 (2 years) Cambridge, MassachusettsProgram Director @ Pratt Institue Design Initiative for Community Empowerment Pratt's Design Initiative for Community Empowerment (DICE) is an after-school program that introduces high school students to design through studio work, field trips, visits from accomplished designers, portfolio development, and a final exhibition. Our goal is to create stimulating educational experiences that prepare students for college-level classes and careers in design. From March 2007 to June 2007 (4 months) Bedford-Stuyvesant, BrooklynCo-Founder @ Stadtblind Stadtblind was a gallery and urban research studio focused upon challenging the urban imaginaries of Berlin. The group published The Colors of Berlin with Prestel, and exhibited internationally at Deutsches Architektur Zentrum (DAZ) in Berlin, architekturgalerie am weißenhof in Stuttgart, Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver, The Van Alen Institute in NYC and UnionDocs. From June 2002 to July 2005 (3 years 2 months) Berlin, GermanyFounding Partner @ UnionDocs UnionDocs (UnDo) is a Center for Documentary Art that generates and shares big ideas.We bring together a diverse community of experimental media-makers, dedicated journalists, critical thinkers, and local partners on a search for urgent expressions of the human experience, practical perspectives on the world today, and compelling visions for the future.I co-founded UnionDocs with Christopher Allen, and it is now one of the most widely recognized microcinemas internationally, featured in the New York Times and other publications. Williamsburg, BrooklynCo-Founder/CEO @ GoPop GoPop has been acquired by BuzzFeed:http://techcrunch.com/2015/02/19/buzzfeed-acquires-gopop/GoPop was the most hilarious and creative community anywhere. See for yourself why Apple has featured GoPop as a “Best New App” twice in the last six months, and Mashable has called GoPop an “app not to miss.” Two things are better than one! Pops are super simple animations that are fun and easy to make. Snap pics quickly and use the crazy ghost feature to line up your second shot with the first. Or show off your doodling skills with colors showering from your fingertip. GoPop is a playground to make whatever you imagine. Touching the screen lets you reveal the second frame of every Pop. It’s like magic — you bring the images to life. From October 2013 to February 2015 (1 year 5 months) San FranciscoCo-Founder/CEO @ Zeega With Zeega, you can use any media in the cloud, transform the entire screen into your playground, and share your interactive creations with the world.Created by a global community, Zeegas are a new form of interactive media. Some Zeegas are funny. Others are sad. A Zeega can be anything you imagine. We’re living in a unique moment. More media than ever is recorded and shared. Zeega is ushering in an era when the web becomes an interactive, audiovisual medium made by everyone. From February 2013 to February 2015 (2 years 1 month) San FranciscoPresident @ Media And Place (MAP) Productions Media And Place (MAP) Productions is a non-profit startup at the intersections of software, journalism, media arts and education. Some of our flagship work was Mapping Main Street (http://mappingmainstreet.org) and Localore (http://localore.net), including the Austin Music Map, nominated for a Webby for Best Music Site, along with MTV, Vevo, Pitchfork and NPR Music. From online to installation, broadcast to mobile, our mission is to tell powerful stories, inspire democratic participation, strengthen the public domain and deepen the vitality of local communities through innovative technologies, interactive documentaries and educational programs.We aim to empower artists, journalists, scholars, artists, students, educators and citizens to produce, share, filter and map media in order to increase access to meaningful information, build capacity for civic engagement and transform the way people experience the world around them. From September 2008 to June 2013 (4 years 10 months) Instructor of Architecture @ Harvard Graduate School of Design At the GSD, I invented the courses GSD 3448: The Mixed-Reality City and GSD 3418: Media Archaeology of Place. From September 2009 to May 2013 (3 years 9 months) Cambridge, MassachusettsCo-Founder & Director of Product Development @ Yellow Arrow Yellow Arrow was a fundamentally new way of exploring cities via mobile phones and text messaging. A harbinger of the "geospatial web," Yellow Arrow began in 2004 as a street art project on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. It was then picked up BY Wired magazine, we raised a venture round of financing and Yellow Arrow grew to over 35 countries and 380 cities globally and become a way to experience and publish ideas and stories via text messaging on your mobile phone and interactive maps online.The platform was featured at MoMA as one of the most innovative design works of the past decade. From May 2004 to October 2006 (2 years 6 months) Greater New York City AreaDirector of Urban Design and Digital Integration @ Sidewalk Labs For Sidewalk Toronto, oversee holistic placemaking strategy, integrating innovations across disciplines, and advancing responsible technology practices with Canadian innovation ecosystem and global policy community. Director of Public Realm & Development @ Sidewalk Labs In concert with community, lead innovation strategy for public realm in Sidewalk Toronto to increase sense of belonging for more diverse populations, reclaim public space from cars and expand activation across seasons. From April 2018 to May 2019 (1 year 2 months) Interim Head of Product @ Sidewalk Labs Oversee product portfolio, including incubation of Replica, and re-structuring of new product development and commercialization division From September 2017 to April 2018 (8 months) Director of Design @ Sidewalk Labs Lead human-centered design and product discovery across the company From May 2017 to September 2017 (5 months) Director, Sidewalk Urban Development @ Sidewalk Labs Work with select developers and planners around the world to achieve greater adaptability, sustainability and affordability through the integration of urban innovations.