Creative Houston

Houston Summit for the Creative Economy

2010-07-09T08:58:55-05:00

To help Houston thrive in this new century when a city's wealth will depend on its creativity,
take part in the Houston Summit for the Creative Economy, happening Friday, October 22, 2010 at the Jones School of Management on Rice University campus.

By registering for updates, you'll be able to keep an eye on the leading edge of innovation in Houston. If you decide to attend on October 22, you'll be able to help mold the economic landscape when you select a project to support. Project team assignments can range from a lightweight mission to help identify resources to a busy series of accomplishments that will look great on your resume.

Don't miss this opportunity to be a player in the development of Houston as a great creative city.

$100 tickets to participate 8 am to 5 pm on Friday, October 22 are on sale at www.HoustonSummit.org.

Tolerance Bridge

2008-12-04T07:12:02-06:00

Mayor touts plan for $7 million bridge with a twist - Houston Chronicle, 2008-Dec-4, by Bradley Olson: Mayor Bill White on Wednesday unveiled plans for the "Tolerance Bridge," a $7 million project built with public and private funds that will connect pedestrian and bike trails along Allen Parkway with those on Memorial Drive near Montrose Boulevard. The bridge design features a visual sleight of hand: a twisted archway at its center that from afar, project officials told City Council members, will make it appear impossible to cross. However, when pedestrians or bikers are closer, they will see the bridge is easily passable. From one vantage point, the "twisted arc" will frame the Houston skyline. "What we found with Discovery Green is that when we invest in these high-quality public places, that it improves the property values and the living environment and quality of life all around there," White said. "So, I think great art is part of a real city."

Dec. 13 GreenCamp

2008-11-30T11:38:01-06:00

Houston Business Journal: GreenCamp to bring together advocates of eco-friendly city, 2008-Nov-28, by Mary Ann Azevedo: GreenCamp Houston ’08, to be held at the Houston Technology Center on Dec. 13, will focus on topics such as green/clean technology, renewable energy, sustainability, best practices in energy conservation, material reuse and recycling and reduction of both personal and business waste. Bar camps — essentially open, participatory workshops with content provided by the participants — are not new to the Bayou City. ... For Josh Tabin, head of Houston-based StartUpHouston.com, the idea made sense. “Our intent is for yet another grassroots collaborative gathering of people who have an interest in various green ideas, to bring them together with people they might not have otherwise come across,” he says. You can learn more at GreenCamp.ning.com and register at greencamphouston.eventbrite.com

Nano World Headquarters Planned

2008-11-26T11:21:50-06:00

Houston Chronicle: Developers see opportunity in nanotechnology, 2008-May 23, by Eric Berger: A local developer and a group of scientists ... want to create something called "Nano World Headquarters" just south of Houston in a 150-acre Pearland development called the WaterLights District. The bold, but still unfunded, plan calls for the development of a large facility where nascent nanotechnology companies can gain access to lab space and expensive, sensitive equipment without having to buy it.

National Book Award Touches Houston

2008-11-20T09:04:30-06:00

Houston Chronicle: Texas native, UH poet win National Book Awards, 2008-Nov-19, by Fritz Lanham: Annette Gordon-Reed made history — and on her birthday — Wednesday when she became the first African-American woman to win the National Book Award in nonfiction. The East Texas native who grew up in Conroe won for The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family (Norton), an exhaustively detailed history of Sally Hemings, the slave woman who became Thomas Jefferson's mistress, and Hemings' remarkable extended family.The poetry prize went to University of Houston professor Mark Doty for Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems (HarperCollins).