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Preservation that Begins with People
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.
Meet an IAS Collaborative: ArTeS
Meet the IAS Research and Creative Collaborative ArTeS, an emerging, intercollegiate initiative that centers the arts in Art + Technology + Science collaborations at the University of Minnesota.
Meet an IAS Collaborative: Afrofemininist Transatlantic Collaboration
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.
Meet an IAS Collaborative: Memory, Trauma, and Human Rights at the Crossroads of Art and Science
Introducing Memory, Trauma, and Human Rights at the Crossroads of Arts and Science, an IAS Research and Creative Collaborative dedicated to exploring how an interdisciplinary understanding of memory and traumatization can illuminate pathways between artistic production and healing.
Meet an IAS Collaborative: Critical Disability Studies Research Colloquium
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.
Meet an IAS Collaborative: Project for Advancing Health Care Stewardship
Introducing the Project for Advancing Health Care Stewardship, which facilitates social conversations about health and health care stewardship in order to rebuild and maintain an efficient, effective, and sustainable system. This community-driven team incorporates perspectives from evidence-based practice, narrative medicine, behavioral health, sustainability, and community engagement.
Meet an IAS Collaborative: Gender and Violence: South Korea and Beyond
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.
Meet an IAS Collaborative: Preparing for Our Future Museums
Introducing Preparing for Our Future Museums: Museum Studies in the 21st Century, an IAS Research and Creative Collaborative researching the academic program needed to provide knowledge and skills for new museum professionals to successfully meet current and future challenges of the field.
Meet an IAS Collaborative: Moving Image and Media Studies Graduate Group
Introducing the Moving Image and Media Studies Graduate Group, a 2020–2021 IAS Research and Creative Collaborative, which is a collaboratively run nexus for students, faculty, and production professionals working in film and audiovisual media at the University of Minnesota.
Meet an IAS Collaborative: Religion and the Public University
Introducing Religion and the Public University, a 2020–2021 IAS Research and Creative Collaborative that uses the tools of academic research and knowledge production to address questions and issues that arise at the intersections of religious freedom, academic freedom, and church-state separation on this and other public university campuses.