Organizing page for **March 18th mini-SERC Somerville**. ## What's a SERC? > In emergencies like hurricanes and tsunamis, emergency response centers exist to coordinate evacuations or provide services like temporary housing, food, and water. We want you to join us in re-imagining response centers to take on the real and pressing social emergency that we are facing today. (via [DS4SI](http://www.ds4si.org/interventions/serc)) > **Social Emergency Response Centers** (SERCs) will be temporary, emergent, and creative pop-up spaces co-led by activists and artists around the US. They will function as both an artistic gesture and a practical solution. As such we will need to figure out the balance, like how will we feed people--and their hunger for justice? How will we create a shelter--where it's safe to bring your whole damn self? What will reconstruction--of civil society--look like? Here is a rough diagram that we’re excited to have people add to: Here's a diagram to help you imagine it! [![tmp_10143-static1.squarespace.com-653398842.jpg](https://publiclab.org/system/images/photos/000/019/738/large/tmp_10143-static1.squarespace.com-653398842.jpg)](https://publiclab.org/system/images/photos/000/019/738/original/tmp_10143-static1.squarespace.com-653398842.jpg) ## Planning Planning is now in progress, and more will be posted soon. Please email jeff@publiclab.org if you'd like to be involved! ## Sessions We're looking for people to organize sessions for the day: * from one to two hours We're hoping to have a session of each of these types running at a time: * 1 crafts-oriented * 1 "learn about this" * 1 brainstorm-oriented * downtime -- for "taking a break" * 1 for young people (various ages) * accessible to teens, best facilitated by teens (any good workshop should be accessible) ### Currently planned sessions * Timelapse Pollution Monitoring Kit - by @warren [prompt:paragraph:Add your own session here!] **** ## Early notes