In|Formation Year - In|Common
Site: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
The programming for In|Common is comprised of the following components:
- A three-day summit entitled Katrina: After the Storm - Civic Engagement Through Arts, Humanities and Technology
- Panels, peformances, and other convenings on topics of emergency response, poverty, social justice, and racism
- A Virtual Town Hall Meeting using the Access Grid
In|Common Partners
- University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
- National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
3-Day Summit > Katrina: After the Storm - Civic Engagement Through Arts, Humanities and Technology> Sept 28-30, 2006
As part of HASTAC’s In|Formation Year 2006-2007, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will host a three-day summit entitled “Katrina: After the Storm—Civic Engagement Through Arts, Humanities and Technology”. The summit, which follows the one-year anniversary of the hurricane, will kick off the campus yearlong Martin Luther King Jr. celebration, while further advancing the social justice dialogue that was initiated with the MLK 2006 Celebration quilt, “A Single Garment of Destiny: Our Common Threads”. The summit will include panels, performances, and other convenings and will culminate in a virtual Town Hall Meeting. The proposed dates of this event are September 28-30.
We will create a national virtual community using live chat sessions, blogs, podcasting, webcasting and the advanced collaboration technology of the Access Grid ( http://www.accessgrid.org). The Access Grid is a multicast system that allows multiple people in multiple locations to come together in a shared virtual environment in real time, thus creating a global team that can assemble for a wide range of activities, ranging from education to research to cross-cultural performances. This advanced collaborative technology also enables participants to share audio, video, support materials, even experimental instruments, over high-speed networks in real time. Various forms of technology will enable us to bring together citizens, artists, scholars in the humanities, children, technologists, community activists, educators, and others from across the country in a proactive, innovative environment to explore social justice issues, the impact of Katrina and lessons learned.
During this three-day event, emergency response, poverty, social justice and racism will be presented and examined in a creative and provocative manner, within a multidisciplinary collaborative model that connects academic and professional silos while bridging the gap between “town and gown”. The summit seeks to reveal the possibility and the hope that can be discovered through the act of creation, debate and collaboration.
In short, this summit will serve to learn, create, debate, stimulate, explore and collaborate.
Site: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
The programming for In|Common is comprised of the following components:
- A three-day summit entitled Katrina: After the Storm - Civic Engagement Through Arts, Humanities and Technology
- Panels, peformances, and other convenings on topics of emergency response, poverty, social justice, and racism
- A Virtual Town Hall Meeting using the Access Grid
In|Common Partners
- University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
- National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
3-Day Summit > Katrina: After the Storm - Civic Engagement Through Arts, Humanities and Technology> Sept 28-30, 2006
As part of HASTAC’s In|Formation Year 2006-2007, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will host a three-day summit entitled “Katrina: After the Storm—Civic Engagement Through Arts, Humanities and Technology”. The summit, which follows the one-year anniversary of the hurricane, will kick off the campus yearlong Martin Luther King Jr. celebration, while further advancing the social justice dialogue that was initiated with the MLK 2006 Celebration quilt, “A Single Garment of Destiny: Our Common Threads”. The summit will include panels, performances, and other convenings and will culminate in a virtual Town Hall Meeting. The proposed dates of this event are September 28-30.
We will create a national virtual community using live chat sessions, blogs, podcasting, webcasting and the advanced collaboration technology of the Access Grid ( http://www.accessgrid.org). The Access Grid is a multicast system that allows multiple people in multiple locations to come together in a shared virtual environment in real time, thus creating a global team that can assemble for a wide range of activities, ranging from education to research to cross-cultural performances. This advanced collaborative technology also enables participants to share audio, video, support materials, even experimental instruments, over high-speed networks in real time. Various forms of technology will enable us to bring together citizens, artists, scholars in the humanities, children, technologists, community activists, educators, and others from across the country in a proactive, innovative environment to explore social justice issues, the impact of Katrina and lessons learned.
During this three-day event, emergency response, poverty, social justice and racism will be presented and examined in a creative and provocative manner, within a multidisciplinary collaborative model that connects academic and professional silos while bridging the gap between “town and gown”. The summit seeks to reveal the possibility and the hope that can be discovered through the act of creation, debate and collaboration.
In short, this summit will serve to learn, create, debate, stimulate, explore and collaborate.
