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Building Better Book Carts

Sarah Ball of the New York Public Library Correctional Services Program (NYPL) approached the School of Constructed…

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“Your work is inspiring”

“Your Work is Inspiring!” This is the title of the email I sent to Bernadette Ludwig on December 20th, 2016. It was…

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Tar Sands Songbook

An illuminating work of documentary theater, The Tar Sands Songbook asks us to reconsider our unseen relationships…

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New Challenge

New Challenge expands opportunities for students to realize their ideas and to take them to the next level of…

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Visualizing Patient Journeys

At present, there is currently no consistent way of describing or visualizing patient journey at MSK cancer…

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Humanities Action Lab: States of Incarceration

The first HAL project will focus on the past, present, and future of incarceration, exploring the explosion of…

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Interview with Andrew Shea and John Roach

John Roach and Andrew Shea of Sound the Mound are interviewed by the independent radio producer Carlo Patrao who…

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Our Partners

Sound the Mound is a collaboration between partners who are either directly or indirectly contributing to a…

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Temperament of Space – Yonkers

Artists Diane Mitchell and Marko Gosar created the community engagement project “The Temperament of Space –…

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The Importance of Exhibitions

The States of Incarceration project is a traveling exhibition and series of events that bring together people…

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Contextual Relevance: Latinx Diaspora Complexity

Complexity within the Latinx Diaspora My family has participated as Jornaleros at one point or another, and I…

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States of Incarceration Toolkit

The States of Incarceration Engagement Toolkit for Presenting Partners was collaboratively created by Participatory…

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Private School Potential

By Dana Rosati The food system in New York City is not only decentralized, but highly complex. Within this…

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Investor Perspectives – Solar

Solar investors are people or institutions that lend money to solar projects in order to receive tax credits and…

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Intro to The Institute for Transformative Mentoring (ITM)

The Institute for Transformative Mentoring (ITM) is a dynamic new training program focused on the development of…

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Structuring Equality

From the resource: "Finding Better, More Equitable Ways to Learn What is the best way to learn? Clearly, there are…

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Humanizing Institutional Relationships

“All of our work is about humanizing the workers, educators, culture workers,” says Carrie Neal. Neal is a faculty…

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Do Tank

The Do Tank is an action-oriented design thinking course, tied to a challenge to translate learnings into local…

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SDS COLLAB: ARTISAN FUTURES

COURSE DESCRIPTION: In spring 2018 Cynthia Lawson, co-founder of the DEED Research Lab, taught a School of…

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INCARCERATION: A Podcast for Change – Background

STATES OF INCARCERATION: A HISTORY The Humanities Action Lab Global Dialogues on Incarceration was a collaboration…

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Photo Essay: Mr. Otis Johnson

The following body of work is the story of Otis Johnson and was written and photographed by Kari Bjorn. It is part…

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The Great Hack + Tar Sands Songbook

Roundtable sessions “The Great Hack: Holding Companies Accountable for Data Crimes through Public Advocacy &…

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HealthClass2.0

HealthClass 2.0, a civic engagement project housed at The New School, is an experiential learning program…

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Healed People, Heal People (Classroom Exercises)

We see the main focus of the ITM program as training students in trauma-informed care. We believe the best way to…

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Mentoring Through Making

Given the current political landscape in the U.S. and the recent executive orders that have left immigrant and…

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Harlem Collaboration Project

The purpose of the HCP is to support young people in Harlem to meet their higher potential. We will do this by…

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AIDS Quilt Touch

Our aim is to create an appropriate digital memorial that helps preserve significant cultural memories about AIDS,…

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Collaboratory Interim Report: Insights from a Community of Practice

The New School Collaboratory is a two-year research and design initiative launched formally in June 2013 with…

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Solar Developer Value Propositions

Solar developers are people and or organizations that work with clients, financiers and often construction…

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Assignment Idea – Bringing together Design and Research

For many faculty, bridging two very different disciplines can present a challenge. After all, we have been trained…

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LEARNING PROCESS AND ENGAGEMENT

STUDENT INVOLVEMENT In the spring of 2016 students from the Eugene Lang College course "Podcast: States of…

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Street Seats

Street Seats is a collaboration between the NYC Department of Transportation and the Design Build: Urban Public…

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The Circle – ITM

Indigenous cultures from around the world have gathered their communities in circles for all occasions.…

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400 Years of Inequality

From the Starter Kit: “We call on everyone to prepare observances for the 400th Anniversary of the arrival in 1619…

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Research for Organizing Toolkit

Research is something that we all do on a daily basis. We observe patterns in our communities, ask questions of our…

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Healthy Materials Lab + Freedom of Speech Seminar

Roundtable Session: Healthy Materials Lab: Co-Design Through Reciprocal Capacity Building Roundtable Session:…

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Design Workshop

The Design Workshop at Parsons School of Design is an innovative studio that provides pro bono architectural and…

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DEED Lab’s Fair Craft Study

As a research lab situated in an academic setting, we find ourselves in a strategic position that allows us to…

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Tohuaxcan Tlahtole – Our Language

The Nahuatl language and culture is disappearing. Continually threatened by the legacy of colonialism and more…

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Sound The Mound

"Sound the Mound” is a project developed by students from the Transdisciplinary Department as part of their core…

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The History of Write On

During the Fall Semester of 2016, Professor Helen Schulman was invited to George Jackson Academy—the only…

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Student Perspectives on New Challenge

To date, more than 800 students have applied to New Challenge and more than 70 students have received funding.…

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Collaborative Research Studio: The Teaching Artist

This practice-oriented course focuses on Arts Education. Collaborative Research Studio (CRS) combines research and…

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Institute for Transformative Mentoring

The Institute for Transformative Mentoring (ITM) is a program at The New School – Center for New York City Affairs.…

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New Challenge Winner: Project Fogg

Project Fogg is a post-disaster visualization and communication kit intended to help communities respond quickly…

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A Closer Look: Transforming the Fashion Industry Through Inclusive Design

Disability and Beauty seeks to implement a more inclusive approach to fashion by challenging the notion that design…

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Awkward interactions and shared language

Students from Parsons and WHEELS talk about the very first project meeting in which we worked on helping everyone…

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Healthy Affordable Materials Project

The Healthy Affordable Materials Project seeks to improve the lives and health of affordable housing residents by…

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DEED Research Lab

DEED is a research lab that was founded in 2007 at The New School by faculty from design and international affairs.…

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The Making of a Handbook: How Do We Codify a Changing Process

The nice part about being a small organization at the start of its long life is elasticity: because we are a small…

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Groundswell Teaching Artist Knowledge Base

The Groundswell Teaching Artist Knowledge Base was collaboratively created by Participatory Community Engagement…

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What comes next?

Students discuss how building a cafe together opened up new possibilities and realms for collaboration, and allowed…

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Audio Visual Essay: A Day in the Life of the Rikers Island Bridge

The following audio visual essay, titles "A Day in the Life of the Rikers Island Bridge" was created by Darcy…

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TRANSDISCIPLINARY ANALYSIS

EVALUATION OF FRAMEWORKS AND MODELS Overall, the project felt genuine, and the work is much needed in the…

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Shelf Life

Shelf Life is a course in partnership Between the College of Performing Arts and the New York Public Library (NYPL)…

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ITM Special Events

ITM Launch Party March 9th, 2017: On March 9th, 2017 ITM held a launch party. This event was ITM’s coming-out…

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New Challenge Winner: Steam Punks

STEAM Punks was created in response to the personal experience of Mehdi Salehi, a political refugee from…

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New Challenge Winner: Sweet Generation (2013)

Sweet Generation is a storefront bakery near St. Mark’s Place that simultaneously provides at-risk young people…

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Why Plant-Based Lifestyles Matter

By Dana Rosati The way we mass-produce animal products today is a serious threat to the environment, public…

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“Holding it open”: A collaborative process for long-term work

Students from Fortune and WHEELS talk about the beginnings of the process - and how what we made came from the…

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TEDC Local Policies for Environmental Justice: A National Scan

The Tishman Environment and Design Center’s report “Local Policies for Environmental Justice: A National Scan,”…

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Why Visualizing Pipelines Impacts?

We believe that community initiatives, in order to be really visible, accessible, and inclusive, need to exist in…

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Civic Professionalism

From the resource published by Imagining America: "Major topics addressed include civic professionalism as a…

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Plant-Based Food Innovators and Supply Chains

By Dana Rosati First things first, let’s get some simple definitions out of the way. Understanding Food supply…

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Visualizing Pipeline Impacts

Across the Northeastern US, the health and wellbeing of local communities and fragile ecosystems are under…

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Situating Projecto Morrinho

Rio de Janeiro is a city known for beaches and nature; samba and carnival; violence and inequality. In the past…

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University Transdisciplinary Labs

Currently at The New School connections are emerging between graduate programs across the various divisions. In…

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New Challenge: Supporting Social Impact Entrepreneurs

New Challenge is a response to a changing world. The future of work, enterprise, and careers is being transformed…

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Designing for Transitions in Cancer

Supporting patients as they navigate uncertainty and anxiety through the cancer journey Globally, populations…

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Value Proposition for Three Critical Community Solar Stakeholders

Most people in the United States are unable to access residential photovoltaic solar arrays (solar PV) due to the…

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Why Aren’t We Sanctuary?: Institutional Irresponsibilities & Supporting…

In response to rising incidents surrounding power inequality, the Collaboratory Symposium hosted a roundtable…

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THE PROJECT: TRANSPADEGOGY IN THE EPHEMERAL

After months of research and planning, I was able to implement a series of workshops in partnership with NICE. My…

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Curriculum Toolkit: Sound the Mound

The toolkit is developed in collaboration with Gaynor McCown Expeditionary Learning School and Freshkills park,…

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48 Blocks Atlantic City

48 Blocks Atlantic City was formed in 2015 to provide exciting art-related projects that display the searing power…

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Venture Lab

The Venture Lab is a semester-long course designed to support graduate students and upper-level undergraduates at…

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Groundswell Knowledge Base | Reflections on the Experience

Read some New School student reflections based on their Groundswell Knowledge Base experience.

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Scholarship in Public: Knowledge Creation and Tenure Policy in the Engaged…

The Imagining America Tenure Team Initiative (TTI) was inspired by faculty members who want to do public…

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Incarceration: A Podcast for Change

Incarceration: A Podcast for Change preserves, reframes, and disseminates audio content from the States of…

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Transpedagogy in the Ephemeral: Design Thinking through Socially Engaged Art for…

The following project explores how design thinking through socially engaged art might support the development of…

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Podcast Series: What’s lost when a prison closes?

Below are a series of podcasts created by undergraduate students at Skidmore College,  and is  is part of the…

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Youth Action Research in Red Hook, Brooklyn

For nine months, a group of Participatory Community Engagement students worked with the Youth Advisory Board (YAB)…

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How do cancer patients understand the system?

The treatment of cancer and other severe illnesses requires service providers to look beyond physical care, to the…

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Culture and Community Development in Higher Education

From this resource produced by Imagining America: "The Curriculum Project’s originators undertook this study in…

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Africa Is A Country & Engaged Media + Creatively Speaking

Sean Jacobs, associate professor of international affairs and founder/editor of Africa is a Country, told…

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Growing Bonsais: Developing and Implementing Tools for Community’s…

We believe that community initiatives, in order to be really visible, accessible, and inclusive, need to exist in…

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Principles of Projecto Morrinho

What I have found is that there are two factors that are essential to the success of Morrinho. Through induction…

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Collaboratory Digital Knowledge Hub

The Collaboratory Digital Knowledge Hub is a multimedia platform and archive for socially engaged learning and…

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The Ship’s First Shape Was a Raft

This two-year collaborative service design grew from a shared interest in asking “What does it mean to make a thing…

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Jemez Principles for Democratic Organizing

From the resource developed by Southwest Network for Environmental and Economic Justice (SNEEJ): On December…

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Assessing Research-Practice Partnerships

From the resource: "In this white paper, we describe a framework that comprises five dimensions for assessing…

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What is the Collaboratory?

The New School’s vision states its aspiration to be “the preeminent intellectual and creative center for effective…

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Fighting for Housing Justice with South Bronx Residents

In 2008, tenants of the Manida Street Houses began a successful three-year struggle for housing justice.…

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Creative Education at Projecto Morrinho

Morrinho operates as a space for audiovisual learning, art education, youth leadership, and citizenship education.…

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Participatory Community Engagement Course

In the Participatory Community Engagement course at the Milano School of International Affairs, Management, and…

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Immigrant NYC Course

For nearly 400 years, New York has been a city of arrival and settlement for immigrants. The Statue of Liberty…

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Tuning Into The Bluegrass

By harnessing the power of art, science and technology, Public Works in collaboration with the Department of…

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Valuing Community

Sessions “Global Urban Futures: Learning Networks of Scholars & Activists to Transform Conversations around…

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Harlem Collaboration Project: Social Lab Report

The purpose of this Lab is to imagine new futures for the youth in Harlem. Our goal is to generate ideas to support…

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XReality Center

Exploring how reality warping technology can transform education

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City Parks Foundation

City Parks Foundation is the only independent, nonprofit organization whose mission is to offer programs in public…

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The Power of Plants

Agriculture in the 21st century has become industrialized. The agricultural industry is unethical, immoral, and…

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DEED’S FIELDWORK PRINCIPLES

At the DEED Research Lab, we strive to be aware and thoughtful about the way we work, especially when we are in the…

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Architecture of Full Participation: Leading Self, Leading Others, Leading Change

How can institutions bring about sustainable social change that authentically includes diverse voices? During the…

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Imagining America DEA White Paper

The collective result of years of dialogue and the Assessing Practices of Public Scholarship research group​…

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Workshops at Gaynor McCown

The collaboration with Gaynor McCown and Freshkills aims to collectively engage all partners in a co-creation…

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New Challenge Report

This document shares the story of New Challenge, its unique approach to learning, the transformative impact it has…

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Climate Justice in Action

This project documents and explores the groundbreaking vision of several grassroots groups across the United…

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Community Group Value Proposition for Solar

This project includes five semi-structured interviews with non-profits or community groups, including feedback from…

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Reconnecting an Organization with its Tenant Members

Tenants and Neighbors helps tenants build and effectively wield their collective power to preserve at-risk…

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What is the Community Builder Kit (CBK)?

We believe that community initiatives, in order to be really visible, accessible, and inclusive, need to exist in…

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Eye from the sky: validating ground truthed pipeline impacts in farmland

As unconventional gas drilling (fracking) and its transport infrastructure (pipelines) has surged over the past…

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New Challenge Winner: Beyond ABC

BeyondABC is a mobile game that teaches at-risk youth in rural India safety lessons, so they know their rights and…

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Ba re e ne re Literary Arts

Ba re e ne re is an organization which enriches the lives of the Basotho people in the southern African nation of…

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Scraping the Docket: Making FERC Work

As the specter of unbridled climate change increasingly weighs on the public's consciousness, fossil fuel…

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Feet in 2 Worlds

For the past 14 years, Feet in 2 Worlds has brought the work of immigrant and ethnic media journalists from…

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Integral City

Integral City: Warren is a collaboration between community groups in Warren, Ohio and The New School Urban  …

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Design for Financial Empowerment

Designing for Financial Empowerment (DFE) is a cross-sector initiative to explore how service design can be used to…

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OutHistory.org

OutHistory was founded by Jonathan Ned Katz, author of the groundbreaking Gay American History (1976) and other…

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Express Newark

“What happens when a radical runs a university?” This was the first question posed by the presenters at Express…

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Evaluating the Publicly Engaged Work of Faculty: Ideas, Principles, and Practices

The New School for Public Engagement is dedicated to the integration of civic, liberal, and professional learning…

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Artist Statement: Criminalize Brooklyn

The following artist statement by Imani Tudor, an undergraduate photography student at Parsons School of Design,  …

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INCARCERATION: A Podcast for Change – Critical Questions

Incarceration is arguably one of the most searing examples of social inequity. It is at the nexus of issues of…

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Climate Change and Urban Health

This project seeks to understand how climate variability, extremes and changes interact with social dynamics to…

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Theoretical Foundation: Socially Engaged Art

THEORETICAL FOUNDATION For the project, I began my work with assumptions that transformed into theories for…

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Impact: New Challenge

A year-round learning experience open to both undergraduate and graduate students across the University, New…

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Transpedagogy Workshops

Transpedagogy Framework The framework from Figure 1 is the designed process of the pilot program. The bottom…

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A Closer Look: Creating a Pathway To Employment for Formerly Incarcerated Youth

Drive Change is using the food truck industry to broaden access to opportunity, reduce recidivism, and increase job…

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The “Small Revolution” of Projecto Morrinho

The narrative of ‘the city divided’ is one that permeates the media, the individual psyche, and municipal politics.…

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Offense + Dissent: History of Public Engagement & Scholar Activism at The New…

What would a decolonized university look like? This is the question New School professor of history Julia Foulkes…

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Zolberg Institute – International Refugee Committee Fellowship

In 2017, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) and the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility at The New…

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Think Tanks: Co-Creating Knowledge at The New School

The New School’s storied legacy of socially-engaged research and public scholarship remains at the heart of the…

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Introducing Projecto Morrinho

In 1997 when Cirlan Oliveira was fourteen years old, he and his older brother began building a clubhouse in the…

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Beyond Green

Beyond Green’s Community Builder Kit (CBK) is a customizable tool that invites people to reflect on and identify…

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Student Reflection: Michel Foucault and the Groupe D’information sur les Prisons

The following work is by students by students at Parsons Paris and it is part of the States of Incarceration's…

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Write On: Notes from the Classroom

My co-teacher and I taught twelve bright minds for a semester through WriteOn, the New School’s partnership with…

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Collaboratory Symposium

During the Spring 2018, the Schools of Public Engagement hosted the inaugural Collaboratory Symposium. The…

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Post from the Past

There is a lack of engagement and meaningful learning in pre-college education when it comes to History. This…

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Health Class 2.0 Sample Lesson Plan

HealthClass 2.0 is an experiential learning program empowering New York City youth to engage in new conversations…

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Integral City: A Collaborative Design Approach to Warren, Ohio

Since the 1960’s, spurred by civil unrest in the US, new community groups were created to stimulate political…

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Conclusions on Community Solar in NYC

Community Solar (CS) and Community Shared Solar (CSS) are great ways for more people to get involved in the solar…

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New Challenge: Change Making is a Creative Pursuit

New Challenge was built from the ground up by a group of students and faculty from design, management, performing…

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Community Partnership Overview

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Action Research: Exploring the Challenges of Social Engaged Learning and Public…

In 2014, the Collaboratory established a Community of Practice that included 48 participants (including faculty,…

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Testing Our Waters

Empowering citizen scientists to track and prevent marine pollution.

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Strengthening the Ability of Midtown Community Court to Serve Procedural Justice…

Participatory Community Engagement students collaborated with the Midtown Community Court (MCC), a problem-solving…

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Fund for Multimedia Documentation of Engaged Learning

The Collaboratory established the Fund for Multimedia Documentation of Engaged Learning and Public Scholarship in…

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Projeto Morrinho: A model favela for the world

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil is a city that has experienced a widely unequal development of citizenship. The…

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Podcast: States of Incarceration

States of Incarceration: The Podcast tells stories of the incarceration generation from 17 states around the…

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A Moment of Transition along the Patient Journey

The third design intervention focuses on the moment of transition along the cancer patient’s journey. The main…

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Making our own tools

Students from Parsons and WHEELS talk about the calendar tool designed by Parsons students, and how this tool…

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Making Visible the Invisible: Tools for Mapping Pipeline Impacts

One of the critical questions of the Visualizing Pipeline Impacts Collaboratory Project is how can open-source,…

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Introduction: What is a Jornalero

Combing the streets of New York City, I found myself practicing my ethnographic approaches. I stepped into local…

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The Cost of Warehousing

In the Newark area, the local government is seeking to connect developers with brownfield sites on which new…

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Approaches to Socially Engaged Learning

A central aspect of the vision of The New School is to orient students’ academic experiences to help them become…

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Incarceration Podcast – The Life of the Project

SITES As an audio project, the podcast will be located digitally on the Collaboratory site, the HAL site, and will…

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Evaluating Public Scholarship

Public scholarship is scholarly or creative activity that joins serious intellectual endeavor with a commitment to…

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The Bell: A Student Podcast

The New York City public school system comprises 1,856 schools and 1,133,963 students – an enrollment greater than…

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Working With People Syllabus

Since 2009, the critical pedagogy project “Working with People” has been developing innovative approaches toward…

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Mentoring Through Making – Student Reflections

New School students tutored Mexican (American) immigrant children at MASA (Mexican American Student Alliance) in…

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The Vera List Center for Art and Politics

Championing the arts as expressions of political moments

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Participatory Action Research (PAR) Working Tool

From this resource produce by Art.School.Differences: "For the work of Art.School.Differences, Participatory Action…

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Disrupting Ourselves: The Problem of Learning in Higher Education

"By using the phrase “disrupting ourselves” in this article’s title, I am asserting that one key source of…

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Aligning Food Justice Priorities In NYC Greenmarkets

Federal nutrition programs play a pivotal role in improving food access in urban landscapes. The use of these…

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PROJETO 111

The 111 gunshots fired against Wesley Rodrigues, Cleiton de Souza, Carlos Souza, Roberto Penha and Wilton Júnior…

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Collaboratory’s Newsletters

The Collaboratory’s monthly newsletter highlights diverse collaborations between faculty, students, and community…

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Africa is a Country

Africa is a Country is a leading website of criticism and analysis of media and politics of Africa and its…

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WriteOn NYC

Born of a desire to enrich these bright young men’s educational experience, introduce them to literary role models,…

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Fall 2016 Transdisciplinary Design Studio

The partnership with Freshkills Park and Arable, a remote monitoring technology developed for crop management…

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“Walk Harlem” Project Final Reflections

The project “Walk Harlem” was conceptualized and created during Spring 2014 by Nour Chamoun, Daryl Meador,…

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Introduction: Framing Solar Value

The project is the product of a collaboration with a Brooklyn, New York-based community organization with a focus…

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Humanities Action Lab Toolkit

This toolkit in its original format and content was created by as a part of Erica Kohl-Arenas’ 2015-16…

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One With The Space: A Trombone Conversation

Kalun Leung is a trombone player based in New York City. This interview was recorded during a visit to Freshkills…