Crash Creative: my masters thesis + my dream

I wanted to share something with you, a speech I gave in September of 2008 to the City of Seattle Council members:

"We live in a world of evermore complicated problems that are integrated over all disciples over all human behavior.  We can no longer afford to create structures that are one sided/meet only one function. We can no longer keep ourselves looking for a solution in one area.  we need to create an infrastructure that blends all lines, to force a mix of ideas.  We need to create a CERN [Particle Accelerator] type of structure a type of city. Where instead of colliding particles we collide people in order to elucidate the ideas from them, to most importantly inspire new ideas.
We can do this by acknowledging that art examines the raw form of the problems in society as well as providing inspiration for ideas and solutions to those problems.

I want to live in a city where when I walk down the street I see the creative class working in all disciplines together. I want to see buildings that are adaptable- allowing multifunctions to cohabitate. I would love to see a building where on one floor is designated to restaurants, one floor could be dance rehearsal and one floor could be lab space/hospital patient care.
We do amazing things in Seattle.. we fight diseases that don't even effect us, we create art that is shown thousand miles away. We don't do stuff on the small scale here. We create global companies, global citizens to solve the global problems.  Let us inspire each other in new ways~ where we force each other to collide with each other in the same space.
The creation out of seattle out of capitol hill is destined to make ripples globally and create a world where we will all want to live in.
A city that is adaptable and welcomed to all."

I was asked to speak on behalf of the Cultural Overlay District Advisory Committee (CODAC),http://www.seattle.gov/council/codac/default.htm. (which  no longer exists due to funding).  They were about how to preserve the arts in cap hill and why Art is important to a community to a city.

I went to the CODAC meeting the summer of 2008, and as you may know, I can't help but to talk during those things, and the committee had a meeting planned with the City Council Members at Seattle City Hall. The City wanted to hear from the public.  And the committee was so impressed with my thoughts and vision for Capitol Hill, they asked me to speak at the "public section" on their behalf.  It was a 2 minute talk.  One of the committee members wrote me an email afterwards and said I was "an articulate speaker and an exciting thinker".

Since then I have played with this idea of creative space and the idea of crashing together all disciples from Science, Engineering, IT, Non Profits, Global Health, and Art in order to collaborate, cross pollinate and discover true solutions for our complex global problems. No longer should we fund superfluous companies, when we have social entrepreneurs ready to tackle the difficult problems in our world. Let's give the social entrepreneurs a place to crash together and create innovation just like the Higgs boson was discovered in CERNE, who knows what is capable from our Crash. 

My experience in science incubators, space management, move management, occupancy management, providing Operations Services and turn key facilities to multiple small start up companies gives me the beginning know how to make my dream of Crash Creative Incubator Facilities into a reality. Therefore, I will start by devoting my Master's thesis to this project by developing a sound business plan and by building partnerships. Let me know if you are interested in my thesis as I would love to chat and gather feedback and information.

Elizabeth Scallon

Elizabeth.scallon@gmail.com

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