Category: Portfolios

Tenants and Neighbors helps tenants build and effectively wield their collective power to preserve at-risk affordable housing and strengthen tenants’ rights in New York. In 2011, Participatory Community Engagement students worked alongside staff of Tenants and Neighbors to help them reconnect to their membership. Students facilitated community building gatherings where they uncovered stories that were…

Participatory Community Engagement students collaborated with the Midtown Community Court (MCC), a problem-solving community justice nonprofit associated with the Center for Court Innovation, to complete a procedural justice study of the MCC. The project resulted in a public engagement with the entire staff, a written report, a graphic report of community building sessions conducted, and…

The States of Incarceration Engagement Toolkit for Presenting Partners was collaboratively created by Participatory Community Engagement students and Humanities Action Lab (HAL), an international hub, located at The New School, where faculty, students and community partners design and generate curricula and opportunities for public engagement with urgent social issues. The toolkit was designed around HAL’s…

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

The Groundswell Teaching Artist Knowledge Base was collaboratively created by Participatory Community Engagement students and Groundswell, New York City’s leading community public arts organization that brings together artists, youth, and community organizations to use art as a tool for social change. The purpose of the Knowledge Base is to provide a space for Groundswell’s teaching…

The following work is by students by students at Parsons Paris and it is part of the States of Incarceration’s exhibit in New York: Michel Foucault and the Groupe D’information sur les Prisons”. The collection of artifacts and imagery is a study on the person who began a global debate…

Below are a series of podcasts created by undergraduate students at Skidmore College,  and is  is part of the States of Incarceration’s exhibit in New York: “New York: Closing a Prison, Deferring a Dream”. The body of work is one of many that poses reflects on the question…

The following audio visual essay, titles “A Day in the Life of the Rikers Island Bridge” was created by Darcy Bender (Visualization), Estefania Acosta (Audio), and Laura Sanchez (Audio). It is part of the States of Incarceration’s first exhibition in New York…

The following body of work is the story of Otis Johnson and was written and photographed by Kari Bjorn. It is part of the States of Incarceration’s first exhibit in New York; “Rikers Island: NY 11370: In Plain Sight” which asks the question…

States of Incarceration: The Podcast tells stories of the incarceration generation from 17 states around the country. The podcast travels from New York, NY, to Riverside, CA, and 18 other cities — to hear formerly incarcerated people, people who work in prisons, and people…

The States of Incarceration project is a traveling exhibition and series of events that bring together people across the country to share local stories and open dialogue on national criminal justice reform and immigrant detention…

Students discuss how building a cafe together opened up new possibilities and realms for collaboration, and allowed us to anticipate future opportunities for cooperative work.  

We believe that community initiatives, in order to be really visible, accessible, and inclusive, need to exist in the public space. The Community Builder Kit (CBK) is a customizable booklet that invites people to reflect on and identify community groups and public spaces in their…

The collaboration with Gaynor McCown and Freshkills aims to collectively engage all partners in a co-creation process that involves designing and testing experiential learning activities that bridge the siloed curriculum in today’s school system.

The partnership with Freshkills Park and Arable, a remote monitoring technology developed for crop management helped translate environmental data into unique sensory experiences to allows visitors to explore aspects of the park remotely or on site, culminating into three different student projects exploring solutions that encourage community engagement and improved sustainability practices.

Sound the Mound is a collaboration between partners who are either directly or indirectly contributing to a data-driven public art installations, public exhibitions that highlight how our actions impact our ecosystems, and high school workshops that help ninth graders learn the importance of becoming more sustainable. Each partner is essential to this project.

Students from Parsons and WHEELS talk about the calendar tool designed by Parsons students, and how this tool helped students engage as a team to figure out their own system, carry out their own ideas, and make something new through prototyping.

Students from Parsons and WHEELS talk about the very first project meeting in which we worked on helping everyone to interact and to discuss topics using the “same” language.

Students from Fortune and WHEELS talk about the beginnings of the process – and how what we made came from the questions we asked together : What do we want? How can we have our voices heard? How can we share our stories with friends and family?