VP, Digital Placemaking
Email: danlatorre@pps.org
Twitter: @danlatorre
In 2010, PPS hired 15 year web veteran Daniel Latorre to build PPS’s capacity for Digital Placemaking as part of PPS’s goal of being the “Town Square of Placemaking.”
Daniel brings PPS rich online experience in human-centered digital media design, online marketing and communications, social media product strategy, and online technology planning, from years with leading firms such as CKS Group, Razorfish, Funny Garbage, McCann-Erikson, Scholastic, and others. In recent years his focus shifted toward using effective design methods and today’s powerful social technology tools for the civic realm in the movements around open commons, open government, and now, open urban planning. Currently Daniel’s focus for improving PPS’s virtual Town Square is on digital engagement for Placemaking— translating PPS’s place audits, survey methods, and place frameworks, into the digital realm, and evolving the organization’s media communications practice in our highly networked era.
Daniel recently created & launched similar civic crowdsourcing projects in his volunteer work with Transportation Alternatives, consulting work at Open Plans/Streetsblog, and his 2+ years at Scholastic creating a social Open Educational Resources (OER) product for K-12 teachers funded by a matching 3 year Hewlett Foundation grant that he conceived and managed.
For the latest from Daniel see his About.me page.
Looking to connect with your local online community to accelerate your place-based community projects? Contact Daniel with any questions or opportunities about Digital Placemaking.
Selected project updates:
A Focus on Place for Downtown Baltimore’s New Master Plan