What happens when you turn historic preservation upside down? School of Architecture Associate Professor Greg Donofrio—also a former IAS Advisory Board member—began his career by looking at historic buildings and working backwards to people who care about buildings. “Whereas now,” he says, “I am interested in forming relationships with people and working backwards to the places they might care about in the built environment.” As he’s followed this new direction, he also co-founded the Heritage Studies and Public History graduate program, which began as an IAS Research and Creative Collaborative, and strives to add diverse perspectives to conversations about history and preservation.

Introducing Afrofeminist Sound, Touch, and Speculation in Brixton, UK and North Minneapolis: A Transatlantic Collaboration, an IAS Research and Creative Collaborative dedicated to asking how Afrofeminist collaborative artmaking serves a critical function in the formation of diaspora as both political aspiration and solidarity for feminist futures in urban settings.

Introducing the Critical Disability Studies Research Colloquium, which proposes a model of intersecting, interdependent, and flexible leadership to continue to explore and expand capacity for critical disability studies (CDS) at the University of Minnesota.

Introducing Gender and Violence: South Korea and Beyond, an IAS Research and Creative Collaborative, which is motivated by its concern about the Korean Studies’ disciplinary limitation in addressing gendered violence and about the issues of colonial legacies that have shaped area studies in the U.S. academia at large.