Practicing Futures: A Civic Imagination Action Handbook

ISBN-13: 9781433161803 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 176 str.

Gabriel Peters-Lazaro; Sangita Shresthova

Opis

Practicing Futures: A Civic Imagination Action Handbook is a practical guide for community leaders, educators, creative professionals and change-makers who want to sharpen their visions for the future and understandings of the how the past affects them.

Recenzje

"From the global pandemic to climate change, looming crises urge us to pause and take an opportunity to imagine and then create a better world. But how do we take that first step of imagining a world that truly breaks free into a possible future? With advice both practical and inspirational, Practicing Futures shows us how." -Elyse Eidman-Aadahl, Executive Director of the National Writing Project

Spis treści

List of Figures - Foreword: The Work of Imagining Communities by Henry Jenkins - Overview - About Practicing Futures - Section Two: Practice Chronicles - Fantasy Can Help Us Breathe-Muslim Youth Group, Los Angeles - Bringing Imagination to Activism-Freedom School, Los Angeles - Mind Blown! Grown Ups Freaking Out-Digital Media and Learning Conference, Boston - Em/power Love: Building Empathy and Solidarity with Each Other-Salzburg Global Seminar - Turning the Chairs to Face the Table-Bowling Green, Kentucky - Future of Faith?-Fayetteville, Arkansas - Pakistan, from the Heart: Civic Imagination in Context of Violent Extremism - Imagination in the Classroom-New Media for Social Change - Of Two Faced Bunnies in the Woods-Brussels, Belgium - Section Three: The Practice Guidebook - General Notes About Facilitation - Workshop: Origin Stories-Imagining Ourselves as Civic Agents - Workshop: Infinite Hope-Imagining a Better World - Workshop: Step into the Looking Glass-Imagining Our Social Connections with a Larger Community - Workshop: Monuments from the Future-Bringing Imaginative Dimensions to Our Real World Spaces and Places - Workshop: Remixing Stories-Forging Solidarity with Others with Different Experiences Than Our Own - Workshop: Creating an Action Plan-Imagining the Process of Change - Stories from the Field - Final Thoughts - Recommended Readings - Author Biographies - Index.

O autorze

Gabriel Peters-Lazaro, M.F.A., Ph.D. is Assistant Professor at the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts where he researches, designs, and produces digital media for innovative learning. His current research interests include civic imagination and hypercinemas. He is a practicing documentary filmmaker and his courses deal with critical media making and theory.

Sangita Shresthova, Ph.D. is the Director of Research of Civic Paths Group at the University of Southern California. Her work focuses on the intersections among popular culture, performance, new media, politics, and globalization. Her previous books include Popular Culture and the Civic Imagination: Case Studies of Creative Social Change (with Henry Jenkins et al.) and Is It All About Hips?: Around the World With Bollywood Dance.