ethniCITY:
civic education
With the data, labor, and capital resources we possess and generate, we seek to make them in service of public education. We have partnered with community-based groups and local government agencies to assist in the production of their own cultural asset maps, the archiving of alternative oral histories, and the fostering of public discourse about these through workshops and exhibitions. Through the classes we teach, our students span out into the city, document narratives, and create new datasets and media content. Take a look at some of the collaborations below.
We also create and participate in events and gatherings to promote public discussions for social change. Looking forward, our future goal is to collaborate with public schools by creating online, interactive curriculum. Maps educate us about the world. They can help us ask critical thinking questions such as who and what is not on our maps? Why? They can also be great ways to think about STEAM concepts such as how the creation of spatial facts change with aerial units, classification breaks, phenomenon and metric definitions, and visualization techniques. Be being online, we hope this may be a resource for many.
Culture Mapping 90404
Our students researched and created data and media content of publicly identified cultural assets for the 18th Street Arts Center cultural asset mapping Project of the Pico Neighborhood in Santa Monica
RAP oral history archives
Our students as well as the RAP faculty collective found and recorded oral histories about and the aftermath of the 1992 LA Civil Unrest. These are archived at the USC’s Digital Library.
