IF Fellows Ieva Notturno and Jeff Prudhomme worked with Lauren Wilson, Director of Community Engagement at the National Building Museum in D.C. to prepare 8 counselors for an upcoming summer camp, Investigate Where We Live, in which teens from D.C. will explore...
Before the Community Conversation I… “thought that there were few solutions to the eviction epidemic in the US.” Now I…“realize there are many ways to institute change and policy to eradicate homelessness and decrease evictions nationwide.” —Discussion...
Between projects, design, and testing, it’s a busy—and exciting—time at EnCiv. Regular newsletter readers will remember that EnCiv is an attempt to build an integrated online civic platform, supported by a network of civic groups. IF was among EnCiv’s founding...
Continued progress towards full political equality is not likely to occur without real effort. Consequently, those of us who suspect that American politics isn’t as fair as it should be are faced with a real dilemma. The situation makes us want to sit on the...
2019 has just begun and IF has been working with new partners and organizing a new kind of public discussion series. In January IF partnered with Culture Saves and D.C. Public Libraries to bring live music performances and conversations about the future of the arts...
How might museums engage their visitors in dialogue and deliberation surrounding the content of their exhibits? This is a question that IF has been exploring in very real terms with the National Building Museum in Washington DC. IF Vice President Jeff Prudhomme has...
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With the successful Chicago municipal election project receding in the rear view mirror, EnCiv has its sights set on the next stage in its development: a thorough experimental program to test the various tools that will make up an integrated civic prototype to...
It has been fairly common for discussions of gun safety and gun violence to take place in the wake of horrible tragedies. For years the opponents of greater gun regulation (at least the mobilized portions of the pro-gun lobby) would respond to calls societal...
IF Fellow Natalie Hopkinson’s book, A Mouth is Always Muzzled: Six Dissidents, Five Continents and the Art of Resistance was longlisted for PEN America’s 2019 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award. Hopkinson was one of ten semi-finalists honored in a category for books...
