Every quarter the IF Fellows meet in person to collaborate on projects, share resources, and discuss future endeavors. These meetings usually take place in the city of IF’s birth, Parkersburg, WV. In September of 2015, the meeting was held in Madison, WI. Over...
What if we designed our communities in a way that fostered more social interaction? This could be done with design plans that include front porches rather than back decks, and neighborhoods with shared green space rather than large individual yards. It might help...
“The skills students learn through IF can change how they see all their classes.” —Wesleyan Faculty Member Wesleyan College just wrapped up the third year of WISe 101, a mandatory first-year seminar that was recently revised with the help of the Interactivity...
How and when do sports become a public matter? What public decisions do we face about sports? What roles could sports play for us as a society and as individuals? The Interactivity Foundation is launching a new discussion project in the DC area to explore questions...
What makes a well-designed community? What policy decisions might we make to bring about our differing visions of a well-designed community? What are some different aims we might have? Shaping our Towns and Cities is a new discussion guide from the Interactivity...
The IF discussions did not end when class time was over. I began to view my other classes as a large-scale IF discussion…I noticed that I was voicing my thoughts more than I had ever done before in an academic setting —Wesleyan First-Year Student What if...
What happens when a liberal arts college re-envisions its first-year student seminar program to integrate IF’s discussion process? Find out on March 22 when Wesleyan College professors Matt Martin, Deidra Donmoyer, and Lisa Rouleau facilitate a seventy-five minute...
One of the new possibilities we've been exploring at the Interactivity Foundation is the use of wikis for the discussion and development of material. We've set up a general wiki site, the Interactivity Foundation Wiki as a home base for these wikis (a list of the...
Our Interactivity Foundation project discussions focus on developing contrasting conceptual policy possibilities as different ways that our society might approach an area of emerging social and political concern. At first blush this sounds a bit too technical for...
New participants in an Interactivity Foundation discussion project often wonder how to act when taking part in the discussion. Often when people hear that we’ll be engaged in thoughtful civic discussion, they think of this in terms of “debate” or “argument.” With...
