The Imagining America consortium (IA) brings together scholars, artists, designers, humanists, and organizers to imagine, study, and enact a more just and liberatory ‘America’ and world. Working across institutional, disciplinary, and community divides, IA strengthens and promotes public scholarship, cultural organizing, and campus change that inspires collective imagination, knowledge-making, and civic action on pressing public issues.
By dreaming and building together in public, IA creates the conditions to shift culture and transform inequitable institutional and societal structures.
The 2018 white paper by the APPS Research Group offers in-depth exploration of the framework, thinking, and “found pilots” to support the model of Democratically Engaqed Assessment (DEA).
The 2023-24 Mail Art Project was inspired by the 2023 IA National Gathering theme: Radical Reckoning: Invoking the Elements for Collective Change. The project was open to all IA members – faculty, staff, and students. Participation was free, and participants were mailed a small kit with instructions, a prompt, and a few art supplies and materials to get started.
We are excited to announce a new resource available to IA members! This toolkit was developed by IA staff using many of the ideas that members have implemented to energize their campus, engage their IA member benefits, and uplift public scholarship.
+ A Toolkit to Help Organize Your People, Projects, and Partners
This month, we shine a spotlight on the many ways in which faculty and students at Emory University are leveraging the power of public scholarship to foster conversations across and between departments and disciplines through story circles, sidecar courses, and IA engagement tools.
+ Spotlight on Emory University’s Cross-Disciplinary Dialogues and Public Scholarship
Annual convening of public scholars, artists, designers, students, and cultural organizers addressing today’s pressing issues.
IA has begun the search for a new campus home. Hosting IA is an exciting opportunity to become a national hub for public scholarship, and for activating the mission, vision, and values of IA.
IA fosters vibrant networks of graduate and undergraduate students from our member institutions.
IA’s research initiatives and learning opportunities leverage the intellectual and creative capital that is the consortium’s greatest strength.
We envision a world of expansive social imagination, constructed by multiple ways of knowing, where people work together to nurture healthy, vibrant, and joyful communities.
The Imagining America consortium (IA) brings together scholars, artists, designers, humanists, and organizers to imagine, study, and enact a more just and liberatory ‘America’ and world. Working across institutional, disciplinary, and community divides, IA strengthens and promotes public scholarship, cultural organizing, and campus change that inspires collective imagination, knowledge-making, and civic action on pressing public issues.
By dreaming and building together in public, IA creates the conditions to shift culture and transform inequitable institutional and societal structures.
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Funding has been provided by California Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) as part of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021.
