Civic Views: Public Sector Office Workshop

Public Sector Office, a self-organized group of public sector employees who collectively document uncanny government office spaces, will lead a workshop for local civil servants. The workshop will welcome reflection on each participant’s findings of eccentric and idiosyncratic artifacts in government offices, using the Civic Views photographic installation at City Hall as a jumping off point. Participants will have a chance to connect with one another across government bureaucracies and inspect the exhibit for tensions that arise in public sector spaces. The workshop will be followed by a happy hour at Drury Beer Garden. This event is a part of Civic Views, a temporary public art project celebrating the city’s municipal employees and their diverse perspectives on Philadelphia through a poetic picturing of their office windows by artist Emilio Martínez Poppe and curated by Jameson Paige.

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Casey Peterson is an urban planner with experience working in the public and non-profit sector in New York City. She is currently a Senior Project Manager at Hester Street. Casey launched the Instagram account @publicsectoroffice in 2018 with her friend Justin as a coping mechanism for their experience working in government office buildings. She continues to administer the account with delight, receiving submissions on a daily basis from public servants across North America. Casey earned a Masters in Urban Planning from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and a B.A. in Architectural Studies from Middlebury College.

Lucas Teixeira Vaqueiro is a civic designer and researcher with a particular focus on the local level and a deep fascination with bureaucratic systems. He is currently a Program Strategist at 3×3 and an instructor at Parsons School of Design. While working for the São Paulo City Hall, Lucas and his friends created the @esteticadaburocracia Instagram account, a collaborative project for collecting, registering, and appreciating the public sector offices around Brazil. Lucas holds an MFA in Transdisciplinary Design from Parsons School of Design and a B.A. in International Relations from the University of São Paulo.

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