Category: Community events
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Placemats at the SJSU Digital Humanities Center
We are so pleased to be able to run an installation of Placemats, collaborative woven data visualizations based on feelings, at the Open House for the Digital Humanities Center at San José State University on Tuesday, October 15. The theme for programming for the center for 2024-2025 is “Community, Ethics, Technology.” So we will be…
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Placemats @ HASTAC 2023
In June 2023, we brought our Placemats project to the bi-annual meeting of HASTAC, the Humanities, Arts, Sciences, Technology Alliance and Collaboratory, hosted at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. The theme of the conference was “Critical Making + Social Justice,” and it seemed like the perfect place to hand make data visualizations connected to…
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Encoding Steps: Decoding Stories Workshop Reflection
Throughout this year, Dr. Knight, Dr. Llamas-Rodriguez, and the Fashioning Circuits team were working on the Migrant Steps Project, a Digital Humanities project that seeks to intervene in popular narratives about migration and mobilize walking a tool for embodied reflection through repurposing Fitbit technology. My name is Luke Hernandez, and I was a Master’s Student…
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Community Workshop: Make Your Future
On March 7, 2020, five days before the University announced a move to online instruction due to the COVID-19 public health emergency, we hosted a group of middle school students as part of a workshop in collaboration with UTD’s Science and Engineering Education Center (SEEC) and Girl Scouting in the School Day. We had been…
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Event Recap: Fashioning Circuits Meets the Brownies
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Community Workshop: Design Your World 2013
Early on a Saturday morning, 11 Fashioning Circuits volunteers, ranging from 11 to 50-something years old, trekked down to Southern Methodist University for the Fall installment of the Design Your World conference, for 4th and 5th grade girls. Our volunteers included current and former students, parents, daughters, and friends from neighboring universities.