Future Histories Lab and Aurora Theatre Company present a dialogue in association with Stoop Stories by Dael Orlandersmith at the Aurora Theatre Part of the Aurora Connects series, register here to attend via Zoom What wisdom do stoops and porches hold? Where is urban knowledge stored and shared? Do different cities provide different kinds of ... Read morePorch Stories: Conversations about Urban Change

Venue: East Courtyard, Bauer Wurster (formerly Wurster Hall) Future Histories Lab offers community-engaged, project-based courses. Dig into hidden local histories and envision better futures in our exciting courses focused on social justice, race, place, and the arts. Take just three courses (in summer or other times) and earn a Certificate in Urban Humanities. Attend our open house ... Read moreFuture Histories Lab Open House

Location: Bauer Wurster Hall (formerly Wurster Hall), Landscape Courtyard Joe Lambert (left) & Brooke Hessler (right) Presentation: On Monday, August 30, StoryCenter Executive Director Joe Lambert and Media Artist Brooke Hessler joins Future Histories Lab to launch our fall 2021 Colloquium: Techniques and Technologies of Place-Based Storytelling. Brooke and Joe presents from their well of ... Read moreThe Story Center: Storytelling Techniques | Joe Lambert (Fall Colloquium)

Venue: Bauer Wurster 305 (Formerly known as Wurster Hall) If you're interested in community-engaged, project-based courses focusing on race, equity, local history and the arts, Future Histories Lab is for you. Come to the info session to learn about our exciting courses, community partners, and how you can earn a Certificate in Urban Humanities. We ... Read more(31 Aug) Future Histories Lab Info Session

Venue: Bauer Wurster 305 (Formerly known as Wurster Hall) If you’re interested in community-engaged, project-based courses focusing on race, equity, local history and the arts, Future Histories Lab is for you. Come to the info session to learn about our exciting courses, community partners, and how you can earn a Certificate in Urban Humanities. We reveal hidden ... Read more(2 Sep) Future Histories Lab Info Session

Presentation: Can walking tours be an effective measure in countering the loss of historically and culturally significant spaces? How does the expansion of public awareness of the past feed into activism surrounding present day development? What are the benefits of transitioning a live neighborhood tour into a self-guided tour?  On Juneteenth of this year, the ... Read moreBlack Liberation Walking Tour: Live and Recorded Tours | David Peters (Fall Colloquium)

Presentation:What resources are necessary to assemble for strong storytelling? For example, what role does archival research play in composing a story about place? Outside of the archive, what other tools of the landscape are at our disposal when working on site to tell stories about a place? How should a producer handle temporality in a ... Read moreFuture Histories Lab: Augmented Reality and Audio Tours | Susan Moffat

Evidence Over Story, Assembly Over Algorithm | Rick Prelinger Follow the Thread, Pull the Thread, Thread the Needle: Patchwork Projects Towards a Funerary Quilt | Savannah Wood Presentation Description: Most of the projects we will hear about this semester take place on-site, utilizing features of the landscape. What are other digital spaces and archives that ... Read moreAfro Newspaper Archive and Prelinger Archive: Making and Using Archives | Savannah Wood and Rick Prelinger

Presentation: “A Practical Overview of Museum Exhibition Development” How are museum exhibitions made? What are the constraints and advantages to storytelling in an institutional environment? How does something go from a big idea to a multi-part exhibit that visitors can interact with and learn from together? This week we are very lucky to have Sarah ... Read moreExploratorium: Making Exhibitions | Sarah Seiter (Fall Colloquium)

Location:  Bauer Wurster 170 (formerly Wurster Hall) Come see student projects in filmmaking, augmented reality, art installations, and oral history created in recent Future Histories Lab courses. Faculty and students will reflect on the process of working with community partners to co-create projects that reveal hidden Bay Area histories and shape new narratives. Pablo Gonzalez, Lynne ... Read moreFuture Histories Lab Student Showcase

Presentation Description:Thurgood Marshall Regional Park – Home of the Port Chicago 50: Converting a Former Military Base into Public Parkland and Celebrating African-American History Brian W. Holt Biography:Brian W. Holt serves as the Chief of Planning, Trails, and GIS at the East Bay Regional Park District, the largest urban regional park district in the nation. ... Read moreNational Parks and Regional Parks: Telling History in Parks | Kelli English and Brian Holt (Fall Colloquium)

Commons Archive: Developing a Neighborhood Literacy “Commons Archive is a historical preservation program that re-thinks the archive as a place of privilege and de-colonizes our thinking about what's worth preserving.” --Susan D. AndersonHistory Curator & Program Manager,‎California African American Museum Oakland-based cultural researcher Sue Mark will unpack strategies and questions surrounding Commons Archive, a creative grassroots ... Read moreMarksearch: Social Practice Art | Sue Mark (Fall Colloquium)