Future Histories Lab is an intentional gathering of faculty, students, artists, designers, and community members dedicated to connecting the university to the world around it in a spirit of authentic, reciprocal exchange.
Future Histories Lab is a hub for faculty to connect across disciplines and exchange expertise in place-based, project-based, and community-engaged pedagogy. We offer workshops that are tailored to support faculty teaching our humanities studios but that are open to all instructors on campus.
We work closely with existing campus programs including the American Cultures Engaged Scholarship program and the Public Service Center to build networks and share wisdom and technical knowledge.
We invite faculty–both ladder-rank faculty and lecturers–to propose humanities studio courses, and to suggest existing courses as electives in our Urban Humanities Graduate Certificate and Undergraduate Certificate programs.
If you are interested in learning more about incorporating creative projects, fieldwork-based humanities, or community-engaged learning in your teaching, please join us. Our hybrid methods have grown out of seven years of experiments in interdisciplinary team teaching in the Global Urban Humanities Initiative, where the traditions of architecture and planning studio pedagogy have been combined with humanities approaches such as close reading and archival research.
People
The diverse community of Future Histories Lab includes faculty from disciplines including architecture, city planning, literature, ethnic studies, geography, history, the visual and performing arts, and more. Learn more.
Faculty Workshops
We offer workshops, training, and staff support in both technical issues and syllabus development, with a particular focus on digital tools for sharing research with communities. We draw on expertise developed in the Global Urban Humanities Initiative, the American Cultures Engaged Scholarship program (ACES), the Creative Discovery Fellows Program, and Digital Humanities at Berkeley. Learn more.