Collaboratory members are exploring, documenting, and elaborating approaches to an engaged understanding of the world through campus-community partnerships. Their discussions are premised on the idea that such partnerships can yield distinctive forms of knowledge that transform established approaches to evaluating and working on urgent worldly affairs and pathways to social change. Specifically, the collaboratory is dedicated to linking local initiatives in a national framework by employing mapping technologies and critical evaluation techniques. The workshop will feature several individual projects that, while extraordinary in terms of their social contributions, also exemplify the potentials of partnership, innovative approaches to 21st century documentation, and conceptual sophistication in how they set about their work.
Principal Investigators
Randy Martin, director, Arts Politics, professor, Art and Public Policy, New York University
Kim Yasuda, co-director, University of California Institute for Research in the Arts, and professor, Spatial Studies, Department of Art, University of California Santa Barbara
Research Fellows
Alison Mountz, Geography, Syracuse University
Jack Tchen, Asian/Pacific/American Studies Program and Institute, New York University
