PoroCity uses crowd sourced photos as an innovative method of adapting coastal cities to climate change. PoroCity encourages urban dwellers to look closer at their environment by documenting flooding. This simple act will contribute not only to a vulnerability map, but also, in later phases of the project, to a feedback loop between virtual communities and physical neighborhoods. Leveraging the tools of social media and the ability of smart phone users to share geographically tagged information, PoroCity will culminate in the reshaping of public space, networking green infrastructure. Phase 1, will focus exclusively on analysis of Oakland, California, a coastal city vulnerable to predicted sea level rise. Research will include two complementary tracks: the development of a crowd-sourced documentation tool and spatial analysis. Analysis will focus both on areas most vulnerable to sea level rise as well as areas most fertile for adaptation such as easements and vacant lots. CREDITS PoroCity Oakland: Claire Napawan, Brett Snyder | PoroCity Collective: Claire Napawan, Brett Snyder, Kevin Perry, Brett Milligan, Emily Schlickman, RAFT (Brooklyn)