The Arts Collaborative will host a2ru webinar watch parties this spring in the Lamar Dodd Building room S360. All events are free and open to the public. See times and topics below for more information and links to the readings.
In conjunction with the publication of Ground Works‘ latest special issue “Creating Knowledge in Common,” a2ru will be hosting a number of online events throughout January and February 2025. Ask-Them-Anything webinars will feature “Creating Knowledge in Common” Editors Shannon Criss, Kevin Hamilton, and Mary Pat McGuire as well as select contributors to this special collection. Each hour-long webinar highlights projects that cohere around a broad topic.
Read ahead of time, then ask them anything—about creative placemaking and placekeeping, creating knowledge in common across institutions and communities, using artistic virtual reality models as a shared space for ideas about sustainable land management, promoting traditional culture and better-informed city-planning in Peru, developing a shared vision for a cultural corridor in Boston, collaborating across boundaries, using art and design as mediums for change—whatever sparks your interest in these readings!
Placemaking and Placekeeping
Friday, January 17 at 1 PM
https://a2ru.org/event/creating-knowledge-in-common-ask-them-anything-placemaking-and-placekeeping/
Bring all your questions for Creating Knowledge in Common Editors Shannon Criss, Kevin Hamilton, and Mary Pat McGuire, and for project authors Aidan Ackerman, Leann Andrews, and Lily Song. This webinar will have only brief presentations, allowing maximum time for your questions and comments about the collection as a whole and about these authors’ projects: Ackerman’s “Virtual Forests as a Creative Medium for Community Co-Creation and Collaboration,” Andrews’s “Tres Comunidades, Un Río: Supporting Urban Amazonian Floodplain Communities Through Data and Art,” and Song’s “Participatory Planning and Design Research for the ARTery.”
Community-Art Making
Friday, January 31 at 1 PM
https://a2ru.org/event/creating-knowledge-in-common-ask-them-anything-community-art-making/
Bring all your questions for Creating Knowledge in Common Editors Shannon Criss, Kevin Hamilton, and Mary Pat McGuire, and for project authors Amanda D. Concha-Holmes, Ann Holt, Amy Hillis, and Cindy Maguire. This webinar will have only brief presentations, allowing maximum time for your questions and comments about the collection as a whole and about these authors’ projects: Concha-Holmes’s “Decolonizing the Curriculum: Evoking the Complexity of Black Lives in Florida,” Hillis’s “Mapping the Relationship Between a University and Community Music School,” and Holt and Maguire’s “Side by Side: Navigating the Messy Work of Staying Relational in University-Community Partnerships.”
Design/Build
Friday, February 14 at 1 PM
https://a2ru.org/event/creating-knowledge-in-common-ask-them-anything-design-build/
Bring all your questions for Creating Knowledge in Common Editors Shannon Criss, Kevin Hamilton, and Mary Pat McGuire, and for project authors Andy Fox, Suzan Hampton, David Shanks, and Emilie Taylor-Welty. This webinar will have only brief presentations, allowing maximum time for your questions and comments about the collection as a whole and about these authors’ projects: Fox’s “Engagement, Education and Implementation: Supporting Community-Driven Adaptations to Rising Waters in Princeville, North Carolina,” Hampton’s “Prairie Block: Designing and Building Community Resilience in the Heartland,” Shanks’s “New Americans’ Pavilion: A Space of Cosmopolitan Cooperation in Syracuse, New York,” and Taylor-Welty’s “Apothecarts: Mobilizing Abolition.”
Creating Knowledge in Common, Together: A Round Table
Friday, February 21 from 2 – 5 PM
https://a2ru.org/event/creating-knowledge-in-common-together-a-round-table/
This event brings together community and university partners whose shared art- and design-centered work is published in the Ground Works special edition Creating Knowledge in Common. This session will include an introduction to the special edition, but will quickly move into storytelling, question and answer sessions, and breakouts to get into the personal and creative efforts and energies that drive this work forward. Topics include histories of collaboration, creating visions for research based in the arts and design, challenges, and meaningful outcomes that emerge along these journeys.
Reading Club guide: https://a2ru.org/join-a-creating-knowledge-in-common-reading-club/