The Imagining America consortium (IA) brings together scholars, artists, designers, humanists, and organizers to imagine, study, and enact a more just and liberatory ‘America’ and world. Working across institutional, disciplinary, and community divides, IA strengthens and promotes public scholarship, cultural organizing, and campus change that inspires collective imagination, knowledge-making, and civic action on pressing public issues.
By dreaming and building together in public, IA creates the conditions to shift culture and transform inequitable institutional and societal structures.
We are excited to share a recent publication by IA Faculty Director, Erica Kohl-Arenas, from the recently launched journal, Public Humanities. In this research paper and manifesto, Kohl-Arenas proposes five critical ways in which institutions of higher education can better support public humanities.
+ Supporting Public Humanities at the Critical Intersections: An Imagining America Manifesto
Call for Proposals Imagining America (IA): Artists and Scholars in Public Life invites IA members to submit proposals to form new Collaboratories starting…
The 2018 white paper by the APPS Research Group offers in-depth exploration of the framework, thinking, and “found pilots” to support the model of Democratically Engaqed Assessment (DEA).
The 2023-24 Mail Art Project was inspired by the 2023 IA National Gathering theme: Radical Reckoning: Invoking the Elements for Collective Change. The project was open to all IA members – faculty, staff, and students. Participation was free, and participants were mailed a small kit with instructions, a prompt, and a few art supplies and materials to get started.
Annual convening of public scholars, artists, designers, students, and cultural organizers addressing today’s pressing issues.
IA has begun the search for a new campus home. Hosting IA is an exciting opportunity to become a national hub for public scholarship, and for activating the mission, vision, and values of IA.
IA fosters vibrant networks of graduate and undergraduate students from our member institutions.
IA’s research initiatives and learning opportunities leverage the intellectual and creative capital that is the consortium’s greatest strength.
We envision a world of expansive social imagination, constructed by multiple ways of knowing, where people work together to nurture healthy, vibrant, and joyful communities.
The Imagining America consortium (IA) brings together scholars, artists, designers, humanists, and organizers to imagine, study, and enact a more just and liberatory ‘America’ and world. Working across institutional, disciplinary, and community divides, IA strengthens and promotes public scholarship, cultural organizing, and campus change that inspires collective imagination, knowledge-making, and civic action on pressing public issues.
By dreaming and building together in public, IA creates the conditions to shift culture and transform inequitable institutional and societal structures.
Phone Number:
530-297-4640
Email Address:
connect@imaginingamerica.org
Physical Address:
207 3rd Street, Suite 120
Davis, CA 95616
Funding has been provided by California Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) as part of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021.
