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The folks at the Gray Area Foundation for the Arts came up with a great idea, Summer of Smart , a new model for how citizens and government can work directly together to address urban issues. Developers, designers, city officials, urbanists, journalists, community members, and other multi-disciplinarians getting together, building rapid innovation prototypes, and presenting them directly to government. I was really intrigued to learn about this experiment and joined them on their SoS Urban Innovation Weekend 2: Sustainability, Energy, and Transportation. I was amazed by the potential. The prototype I worked on with four other awesome people, ended up being a fantastic collaborative idea and also a winner on the weekend-long challenge. Our team came up with a community building game built around sustainability principles, and we named it the Neighborhood Game . And it's already in the process of being further developed to work in collaboration with The Neighborhood Empowerment