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Thesis Info

LABS ID
00676
Thesis Title
reimagining civic education
Author
Katherine Fisher
2nd Author
Valentina Branada
3rd Author
Degree
MFA: Transdisciplinary Design
Year
2017
Number of Pages
40
University
Parsons, The New School
Thesis Supervisor
Elliott Montgomery
Supervisor e-mail
montgome AT newschool.edu
Other Supervisor(s)
Clive Dilnot
Language(s) of Thesis
English
Department / Discipline
Design Strategies for Cities, Ecologies, and Systems
Languages Familiar to Author
English
URL where full thesis can be found
drive.google.com/file/d/1yWFQjhjhQZO5Ns7zXqIrENNX-gN88NG2/view?usp=sharing
Keywords
Transdisciplinary, Citizenship, Design Strategies, Cultural Production, Service Design
Abstract: 200-500 words
With the vibrant political landscape today, new civic actions have become more visible and are mobilizing the entire world. This landscape reflects society’s need to be heard, for a diversity of voices to be accounted for, and highlights the problem of inequality in institutional politics and representation today. With the need for new modes of participating comes a new type of citizenship that promotes collaboration, participatory politics, and transcends ties to a nation-state. Digital technologies have become integral to how we define community and interact with one another across borders and on a global scale. We found an opportunity in this context to reduce the civic engagement gap in U.S. public high schools as a fundamental aspect of addressing the inequality present in the public sphere. How might we promote new forms of critical engagement in New York public schools that embody a new type of citizenship? A change in definitions follows from a change in how we act. In this project we attempted to do both; to propose a new definition of citizenship, and to offer at the same time a new mode of acting on this model within U.S. public high schools.