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The panel will explore how increased access to technology and the borderless possibilities of Augmented Reality enable the scope of public art to exist in all spaces,
from public parks to our living rooms. How has an increase in technology, from the growth of Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality, intersected and expanded public art opportunities, especially in a pre/post COVID-19 world?
While nonprofit organizations cannot predict the future, they can begin to anticipate how they would adjust to a variety of major and minor shifts in their original strategic
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Design for rural areas often plans to bring people together in place and drive economic development for communities. What is the role of design when stay-at-home orders
change the environment we live in? How can organizations who work in design respond to economic distress head-on? Join Citizens’ Institute on Rural Design for a special edition of our Rural Design Webinar Series on the coronavirus.
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