• Thank you, Pratt Institute! Thank you, HASTAC Community! HASTAC2023 is a wrap.

    Thank you, Pratt Institute! Thank you, HASTAC Community! HASTAC2023 is a wrap.

    Monday morning. 500+ HASTAC’ers have left the gorgeous Pratt Institute campus, home of HASTAC2023, “Critical Making and Social Justice.” I hope that the organizer of all of this, Chris Alen Sula, leader of the wonderful Pratt team, is sleeping in today, happy that it all went so well, all the panels, speakers, art installations, demonstrations,…

  • A (Very Brief) History of HASTAC (2002-2023)

    A (Very Brief) History of HASTAC (2002-2023)

    NOTE: This was written quickly, without access to the HASTAC.org archives, from memory–and we know how faulty that can be. Please use the “Comments” to add names, insights, anything you wish.–CND On this very smoky morning, as I get ready for the 20th “advisory board” meeting of HASTAC at what has shaped up to be…

  • HASTAC 2023 Conference Program is Live!

    HASTAC 2023 Conference Program is Live!

    The HASTAC 2023 Conference schedule is now available! Times and activities listed below are subject to change. The complete schedule can be found here. The 2023 HASTAC conference invites our community to engage with creative and design-based approaches to technology and education, particularly around issues of social justice and allied movements of design justice, data justice and…

  • PUBLIC EVENT | Digital Fridays: March 31, 3:00pm-4:00pm EST featuring HASTAC Scholars Waleska Solórzano and Ian G. Williams

    PUBLIC EVENT | Digital Fridays: March 31, 3:00pm-4:00pm EST featuring HASTAC Scholars Waleska Solórzano and Ian G. Williams

    Join us for our upcoming Digital Friday featuring HASTAC Scholars Waleska Solórzano and Ian G. Williams RSVP here to access the Zoom link for the event. “Exploring a Venesporic Lesbian Utopia in Fina Torres’ Liz in September,” Waleska Solórzano. According to the United Nations, more than seven million Venezuelans are displaced across international borders as…

  • Recap: Welcome New HASTAC Scholars

    Recap: Welcome New HASTAC Scholars

    Summary A summary of the Orientation Event for 2022-2024 cohort of HASTAC Scholars on February 3, 2023. This includes 1) sign up information for HASTAC Scholars Spring 2023 programs and 2) brief tutorials on registering and participating on HASTAC Commons. Greetings HASTAC Scholars –  It was great to see so many new faces at the…

  • Cotton Candy, Magic, and Making Space

    Cotton Candy, Magic, and Making Space

    How can we better include voices, perspectives, and practitioners that are not regularly recognized or celebrated? What is possible when we prioritize care and love in spaces where this is not traditionally explored? And what happens when we make cotton candy in an academic library? NC State University‘s Making Space Event Series, based in the…

  • Shifting Expectations

    Shifting Expectations

    Our 3rd Grade Classroom on The First Day of Snow Often as teachers, we mask our emotions. We are suppose to be peppy all the time. For the most part, I am a glass half full person. For teacher wellness, I need to also share when things are just, meh. I saw a meme the…

  • [Design Justice – Chapter 4] Placing co-production: How to make genuinely inclusive spaces of contemporary design?

    [Design Justice – Chapter 4] Placing co-production: How to make genuinely inclusive spaces of contemporary design?

    Placing co-production: How to make genuinely inclusive spaces of contemporary design? A review of Costanza-Chock, S. (2020). Design Sites: Hackerspaces, Fablabs, Hackathons, and DiscoTechs in Design justice: Community-led practices to build the worlds. The MIT Press. Chapter 4. The relation between production and place is what Constanza-Chock explores in this chapter. But not any production…

  • Marbles Kids Museum

    Marbles Kids Museum

    Marbles Kids Museum in Raleigh, North Carolina For the past several months, I have worked with Marbles Kids Museum – a children’s museum that prioritizes learning and holistic development through play.  Below is the museum’s mission statement: Marbles sparks imagination, discovery and learning through play. Marbles has 5 core initiatives:  Ready Set Learn. Play builds intellectual, social…

  • Project launch: Next-Generation Dissertations Website

    Project launch: Next-Generation Dissertations Website

    I’m excited to share this news with the HASTAC community: Next-Generation Dissertations, a project I’ve been working on with The Graduate School at Syracuse University, is now live. Many thanks to the NEH for making this project possible through their Next Gen PhD grants. I worked on this with Chris Flanagan and Glenn Wright at…