Lauren Gardner

Lauren is a New York City–based community builder and artist.

She is a Director of the art collective and DIY gallery Babycastles, which has reinvented the arcade as a social space for independent videogame culture. Lauren is also a partner at the School For Poetic Computation. She has spent 15+ years as a Technical Product Manager building enterprise level software for companies including Turner/Time Warner & Thomson Reuters. Building things through collaborative process is the heart of her professional and artistic pursuits.