Art Seavey

Research Manager

art@newkind.com
(919) 807-1785

Art's current work focuses on bringing substantive research and analysis to new methods of community engagement and participation. Prior to New Kind, he was a partner with The Estis Group, a public policy consultancy, in Atlanta, Georgia, working with clients such as the Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice, North Carolina Governor's Crime Commission, and Sage Software. He was a member of the government affairs team at Red Hat, working at the intersection of policy and open source software. He has experience in the non-profit sector and has served a number of U.S. Senate and gubernatorial clients through a small political consultancy.

Art is a Government Fellow at the Center for Advanced Communications Policy at Georgia Tech, contributing as a member of the Center for Innovation in Local Government in addition to the Virtualities Group. Art holds a Master of Public Policy from the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University and a Bachelor of Science from Georgia Tech.

New Public Spaces 2: Practical Design Guidelines

by Art Seavey August 26, 2010

Last post, I discussed how governments, especially state and local, should be thinking differently about the ways they engage online with the people they serve.

A quick recap: governments have a relatively indefinite shelf-life; they have powers and likewise responsibilities that come along with being a monopoly; and given people live within and travel across multiple [...]

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Planning ahead for a new breed of “public” spaces

by Art Seavey August 9, 2010

Think about a public space. Maybe it’s a park, or a public library, but some physical space owned by government. We have different expectations about public spaces, and our freedoms in them, compared to private spaces.
Think about a place where civic happenings go on, where dialogue and delivery of services occur. [...]

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Building a practice out of building communities

by Art Seavey January 27, 2010

Tinkering with a brand, whether public or private, and requesting the participation and precious time of others, is not something where you just roll out a platform and hope. We can and should get to the point where there is a degree of certainty in practice.

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