_ART l DESIGN l URBAN INNOVATION

/About
Sarah Filley blends boosterism with ‘positive deviance.' She is consulted to forge cross sector partnerships to ‘stimulate creative thinking and practical innovation.’*  Her interdisciplinary background serves as a foundation to bring design thinking to city scale. 

She Co-Founded popuphood in 2011 as a for profit social enterprise.  popuphood provides fee for service marketing, consultancy, research and other services to city,  state and federal government, economic development professionals, developers, property owners, and small businesses. 

Her slant towards participatory urbanism paved the way for civic engagement projects that bend technology in the service of wonder.  Recent projects include Drop2Drink, GOODbuildings, and Wonderarium.
Photo credit: Eva Kolenko
Upcoming
/May
Heading to New York for ICFF and to talk with Urban Design Institute!

Past/May  4popuphood 6 month celebration!
Table at the Economic Development Event by the Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce in Oakland, CA/April
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 Urbanist.  She 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 marketing and growing popuphood. 
     
    /Residencies
    Gray Area Foundation for the Arts (SF, Current) with GOODbuildings

    University of California Botanical Gardens at Berkeley (Berkeley, 2010) with Wonderarium.

    Kala Art Institute (Berkeley, 2008)

    /Instituions
    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) 
    /Speaking Engagements
    May 19-22 (TBD)
    ICFF- Panel in New York, NY
    June 13  
    Oakland Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce Forum in Oakland, CA
    June 20-22 
    Center for Community Progress Reclaiming Vacant Land Properties- Panel with Next American City in New Orleans, LA
    TBD 
    Detroit Business Conference through the Detroit Regional Chamber and the Small Business Programs in Detroit, MI
    September 3-5 
    Business Seminar- Speaker Melbourne Spring Fashion Week (MSFW) in Melbourne, Australia.
                     
    I am happy to contribute to the dialogue around creative engagement, art, retail, urban design, and social entrepreneurship.  
    If you would like to extend an invitation please contact me: sarahrfilley@gmail.com