Re-Vision Labs and Three Degrees Collaborate for the Digital Media & Learning Competition
Re-Vision Labs has partnered with the innovative interdisciplinary program Three Degrees for the Digital Media and Learning Competition supported by the MacArthur Foundation. If the joint proposal is successful in securing a grant, Re-Vision Labs will create a participatory online platform to connect Three Degree’s interdisciplinary Climate Justice Seminar with host community partners in the high-Andes and other climate vulnerable communities around the globe. Please check out the entire proposal here—we are looking to find additional innovative and established partners within the competition to see whether our collaboration can be strengthened further.
Three Degrees, which is comprised of 25 graduate students from 15 different departments at the University of Washington, is researching how communities in the high-Andean regions of Ecuador will adapt to glacier retreat. At the completion of the 5-month seminar the graduate students will create climate adaptation assessments focusing upon 5-issue areas: health, food & water, security, equity, and justice. Currently, the seminar is in its first phase as pilot project.
The Seminar teams are modeling a unique approach to graduate learning through the interdisciplinary, problem-based, and participatory learning model. By integrating law, atmospheric science, public policy, public health, forestry, and other diverse disciplines, the Climate Justice Seminar is pioneering in intentional, interdisciplinary graduate education as well as developing climate adaptation assessments with direct involvement from the local impacted communities.
Re-Vision Labs is excited develop a platform that will enable better communication between the Climate Justice Seminar students and all members of the community in Ecuador to:
- Enable real-time research and problem-solving collaboration through online discussions and social networking tools;
- Use appropriate technologies (cellular texting, web applications) to connect host communities through blogs, video, and interactive simulations;
- Integrate host community feedback into the CJS to create relevant white papers and adaptation recommendations;
- Share host community stories and demonstrate the powerful results of the Summit process through interactive film and web content; and
- Retain knowledge and processes for future CJS seminars and the public.
Re-Vision Labs expertise with designing and implementing online and offline community engagement strategies will benefit the development of this platform and empower 3D with expanding its Simulation Summits – on the ground facilitated dialogues about predicated climate futures informed by research from students in the Climate Justice Seminar. Central to this platform is a commitment to creating an open-source Hub to communicate the latest research and ideas, increase the scale and scope of collaboration amongst scientists, lawyers, students and vulnerable host communities.
In tune with our commitment to a participatory and community based movement to address Climate Justice, please share your comments, ideas, and feedback about this project proposal here.
If you have any ideas about other proposals that you think might strengthen ours if we joined projects (the entire list of project proposals is here.
Please share your ideas and join the burgeoning Climate Justice Movement!!
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