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Thesis Info
- LABS ID
- 00676
- Thesis Title
- reimagining civic education
- Author
- Katherine Fisher
- E-mail
- fishk808 AT gmail.com
- 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
- Copyright Ownership
- NA
- 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.