Sarah Filley

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/About
Sarah Filley is an artist, urban designer, writer and public speaker on urban innovation, creative placemaking and retail trends.  Blending boosterism with positive deviance her interdisciplinary background serves as a foundation to bring design thinking to city scale. 

She is the Cofounded of t
he award winning Popuphood launched in 2011 as a social enterprise.  Popuphood is consulted to incubate small businesses and revitalizes neighborhoods, block by block.  The successful pilot project in Old Oakland has received international press and is now being replicated in additional neighborhoods in Oakland and internationally. 

Her slant towards participatory urbanism paved the way for civic engagement projects that bend technology in the service of wonder.  Recent projects include Dragonfly at ybca, GOODbuildings and Wonderarium including +Succulent Circus, and the Mobile Plant Ambassador (with Yvette Molina).




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Past
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January
ArtPlace tour, Oakland
Forum, ProArts

November 10-11 
SF Green Festival
Sharing economy

October 11
Oakland Rotary Club

October  5th-6th
SPUR, panel for Economic Development

September 29-31
UP festival's Makeathon-Gaffta #Barnacle

September 22 Progression/people/place/perspective
(re)imagining our future
Academy for Emerging Professionals

PastSeptember 3-5 
Business Seminar- Keynote Speaker Melbourne Spring Fashion Week (MSFW) in Melbourne, Australia 


August 27-30
Venice Biennale of Architecture, US Pavilion

panelist, getting it done

July31
Future.Soul.Think.Tank
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts


July 18
Women's Initiative Connect Event-Connector


July 21
Code for Oakland-Judge



June 13  
Oakland Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce Forum in Oakland, CA

June 20-22 
Center for Community Progress Reclaiming Vacant Land Properties- Panelist with Next American City in New Orleans, LA


June 13 
Chamber of Commerce Forum

May  4

popuphood 6 month celebration!
Table at the Economic Development Event by the Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce in Oakland, CA



/April 4th
Panelist State of Oakland- Panel in Oakland, CA

/February
popuphood is participating in a study on retail on the Broadway Corridor-- Urban Land Institute (ULI) and Daniel Rose Center for Public Leadership in Land Use 

Art Exhibit 8-[Humankind as a parenthesis] Exhibition
Botkyrka konsthall and The National Museum of Science and Technology, Sweden

/January
Panelist Innovative solutions for retail growth in Oakland 

/December
popuphood launch in Old Oakland, CA
RHoK drop2drink.org launch, first place winner



*Social Innovator Series: Ways to design, develop and grow social innovation, The Open Book of Social Innovation, Robin Murray, Julie Caulier-Grice, Geoff Mulgan
    /Bio

    Filley studied Sculpture and Photography at California College of the Arts.  She is a designer, artist, curator, and speaker, and writer.  She is addicted to civic hackathons, succulents, and big ideas.  Her work has been included in solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally. She has designed and implemented science and art exhibitions for over a decade and has put this experience to work through cross sector partnerships for positive social impact with popuphood. 
     
    /Think Tanks
    Future. Soul.Think. Tank,  SF YBCA
    The future of retail, MSFW, Melbourne, AU


    /Residencies
    University of California Botanical Gardens at Berkeley (Berkeley, 2010) with Wonderarium.
    GAFFTA, goodbuildings.info (2011)
    Kala Art Institute (Berkeley, 2008)

    /Instituions
    ybca
    Santa Clara Museum

    Seattle Art Museum
    California Academy of Science,
    University of California Botanical Gardens at Berkeley,
    Exploratorium, 
    Chabot Science Center,
    the Oakland Museum of California, 
    Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA), the Richmond Art Center, the Asian Art Museum, PAHMA at UC Berkeley, Mills College, and Zeum (select list) 
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