All event recordings can be found on our YouTube channel here.
October 4, 2021
Exploratorium: Making Exhibitions |
Sarah Seiter
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 Seiter join us to share her applied approaches in the curatorial process. Watch the recording here and read more about the speaker here.
September 27, 2021
Afro Newspaper Archive and Prelinger Archive: Making and Using Archives | Savannah Wood & Rick Prelinger
Most of the projects we will hear about throughout the colloquium takes place on-site, utilizing features of the landscape. What are other digital spaces and archives that facilitate our ability to tell stories about a particular geography? Watch the recording here and read more about the speaker here.
September 20, 2021
Future Histories Lab: Augmented Reality and Audio Tours | Susan Moffat
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 dynamically changing environment or capture the attention of visitors among pre-existing installations? Watch the recording here and read more about the speaker here.
September 13, 2021
Black Liberation Walking Tour: Live and Recorded Tours | David Peters
On Juneteenth of this year, the Black Liberation Walking Tour launched in West Oakland. The project is a new walking tour, or community-led cultural asset map, of the Hoover Durant neighborhood that celebrates its multi-generational Black history and culture. David shares his experiences in curating and producing the tour and his current efforts to use the tour as part of a public mobilization strategy towards the reestablishment of the Hoover-Durant Public Library branch. Watch the recording here and read more about the speaker here.
August 30, 2021
The Story Center: Storytelling Techniques | Joe Lambert
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 experience in teaching storytelling and creating space for others to articulate stories, as well as ground us in elements of story and authorship that will serve as a foundation for the rest of the semester. Watch the recording and read more about the speakers here.
2021-22 Talks + Conversations
August 20, 2021
Porch Stories: Conversations About Urban Change
Summer 2021 Course Info Sessions
The School to Story Pipeline: Reimagining Us/Education through Speculative Fiction
HUM 132AC 003 (#15864) / ENV DES 132 AC 003 (#15863)
Instructor: Juan Berumen
Learn more here.
Race, Redevelopment and Gentrification: Oakland’s Hoover Durant Library
HUM 132AC 001 (#15721) / ENVDES 132AC 001 (#15723) / CYPLAN 190 001 (#15695)
Instructor: Lynne Horiuchi
Learn more here.
Stories of Place: Documentary Filmmaking Workshop
ETHSTD 180 001, 4 units (#15223)
ETHSTD 199 005, 2 units (#12504)
Instructor: Raymond Telles
Learn more here.
[Short Clips] Summer 2021 Course Info Sessions
Performing (in) Place: Experimental Ethnography, Spatial History, and Creative Mutual Aid
HUM C132 001 (#15722) / ENVDES C132 001 (#15725) / THEATER 166 001 (#15335)
Instructor: Erika Chong Shuch with For You Performance Collective
2020-21 Talks + Conversations
From Haight to Love: Renaming an Alameda Elementary School in an Era of Racial Reckoning
On Dec. 5, 1867, California Governor Henry Huntly Haight used his inaugural speech to rail against the citizenship and voting rights of formerly enslaved Africans, Native Americans, and to oppose immigration from Asia. On December 5, 2017, 150 years later, Rasheed Shabazz contacted the Haight Elementary School PTA and encouraged them to initiate the process to rename Haight School. A year and a half later, the Alameda school board voted unanimously to adopt the name: Love Elementary School.
Displacement Stories: Lessons from a Community History Harvest
In this discussion, Dr. Rebecca S. Wingo (Director of Public History, University of Cincinnati) “lift the hood” on the Remembering Rondo History Harvest, outline key components to successful community-led engagement, and reveal the lessons she learned from missteps and planning errors.