IDEAS CITY 2013 - Second Biennial Festival about the Urban Future

IDEAS CITY was founded by the New Museum as a major collaboration between dozens of downtown arts, education, and community organizations to harness the power of the creative community and imagine our collective future. The 2013 theme is Untapped Capital. The festival will include conferences and workshops with visionaries and leaders; a StreetFest along the Bowery with over one hundred organizations and small businesses presenting model products and practices for a better city; and hundreds of independent projects and public events that formerly attracted over seventy thousand participants. A natural outgrowth of the New Museum’s thirty-five year commitment to public education and civic outreach, the festival’s initial overwhelmingly positive response led to its establishment as a biennial event in New York City with international satellite programs organized in intervening years.