Students in advanced communications class Media as a tool for Social Change create campus climate campaigns to improve campus. Some projects, like the Vibes Exchange Group create opportunities for community members and students to come together to build collaborative relationships and –of course—exchange vibes. Here Wheelock instructor TiElla Grimes meets up with community poet D Ruff and events planner Daisy Guerrero at a campus hosted open mic to fete black lives. (Susan Owusu)

Vibes Exchange

Trying to define “mobile” and “hyper-location” using civic technology circa 2010_Participatory Chinatown (Eric Gordon)

Participatory Chinatown

Pre-Texts Workshop in Rio de Janeiro, Critical and Creative Reading for Everyone! (Doris Sommer)

Sharing Academy with Merlijn Twaalfhoven, Amsterdam 2015 (Renee Siobhan)

Boston Coastline- Future Past. A walking data visualization (Catherine D'Ignazio and Andi Sutton) 2015

The Salzburg Academy on

Media & Global Change

A network for media and social impact across borders, across cultures, across divides (Paul Mihailidis)

"Retaliation," Know Your Rights comics from contratados.org (Sasha Costanza-Chock)

Vendors on Kwame Nkrumah Avenue in Accra Ghana. Image was submitted as part of a blog series published on CoLab Radio where contributors from all over the world were invited to participate in using sound walks to understand hidden social, political and economic dynamics about a place.

(Nse Esema)

The Go Boston 2030 Question Campaign is a far-reaching digital engagement platform offering Boston area residents an easy and convenient point of entry into an important city-wide conversation about the future of transportation—all by simply asking a question. They are gently guided towards enhanced interaction with other contributors from their neighborhoods and from around the city. (Stephen Gray)

"Perspectives on Literacy”: a junior level course orienting students towards civic engagement through reading and writing (Matt Davis)

South Boston Medal of Honor Walk: An Audio Storytelling tour of South Boston war memorials, produced by UMass Boston student veterans (Erin Anderson)

Ethnographic and quantitative segmentation research into the question: what motivates everyday Americans to do things that are civic? (Kate Krontiris, John Webb, Chris Chapman, Charlotte Krontiris - Google Civic Innovation Portfolio)

Data Stories Produced by BU Students (Maggie Mulvihill)

A depiction of levels of deterioration to private spaces across Boston neighborhoods in 2014, derived from 311 reports received by the City, as seen on BostonMap. BostonMap is an interactive mapping platform built by the Boston Area Research Initiative, BARI, where visitors can explore the neighborhoods of Boston from their desks using research-quality data and online tools like Street View. In particular, BostonMap is a portal for making the products of large administrative "big" data accessible to the public. (Dan O'Brien)

The fruits of Creative Capacity Building in Soroti Uganda. MIT D-Lab” (Pedro Reynolds-Cuellar)

"Dogs barking will not disturb the clouds"."pro-test lab" action for dogs of various breeds to save the cinema"Lietuva" in Vilnius. 2005 (Nomeda)

A regional design charrette for the speculative National Cold War Monuments and Environmental Heritage Trail. More information at nationaltlcservice.us

(Sarah Kanouse)

Students in Sara Hendren's design course, Investigating Normal, work with collaborator Amanda Cachia on designing a portable, collapsible podium for short stature

Action Path is a mobile app to help citizens provide meaningful feedback about everyday spaces in their cities by inviting engagement when near current issues(Erhardt Graeff)

“local data + arts activities = civic engagement (Rahul Bhargava)

Mad Science: Participate and create scenarios and experiments in a game-based platform and collectively contribute to societal issues (Casper Harteveld)

Members of POOR Magazine show off their published books made possible by Poor Press. POOR Magazine is a community civic media organization created by and for people in poverty and homelessness in the San Francisco/Bay Area (Cindy Vincent)

Auditory display (text to speech) and content analysis of citizen complaints on the city on the facade of the ars electronica museum across the street from city hall, Linz, Austria. Dietmar Offenhuber, 2015

Meira Levinson's 2012 book on the civic empowerment gap

From The Story Behind a Question Workshop with MIT's CoLab. Go Boston 2030 collects questions at Open Streets event in Roxbury. Photo Credit_ Interaction Institute for Social Change

(Nse Esema)