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)