Civic hacknight #277 VIRTUAL - me-dérive: toronto — Participatory Archiving x AR

• Topic:

me-dérive: toronto is a research-creation project by Dr. Ana Rita Morais that explores the intersections between between participatory archiving and augmented reality (AR), rooted in the necessity to engage more fully with Toronto’s historical and diverse cultural heritage. It is the first AR visual archive of Toronto’s diverse historical narratives that mobilizes archival power away from the institution and into the hands of the public, coding found and crowdsourced records onto their site-specific locations.

Website: https://mederive.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/mederivetoronto
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mederivetoronto/
Slides: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CzplEEczxZPDd09kH_a8A8Kb_agOJgPb/view?usp=sharing

• Speaker:

Ana Rita Morais is a Portuguese-born, Toronto-based academic, educator, and administrator. She is the Chair of the School of Design at George Brown College, and holds a doctorate from the Communication and Culture Program at Ryerson University. She has devoted much of her academic career to investigating mobile media, including her SSHRC-funded research-creation doctoral project, me-dérive: toronto— an augmented reality counter-archive of Toronto's historical urban environments. Ana Rita is the Principal Investigator on a multi-year NSERC-funded project in partnership with Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, a member of the HXOUSE programming team, and a director on the board for The ArQuives.

Website: https://anaritamorais.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/moraisr/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anaritamorais/

• Check-in details:

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• Accessibility:

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• About Us:

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• Agenda:

7:00-7:20 = Welcome and Introductions
7:20-7:50 = Presentation and Q&A/discussion
7:50-9:00 = Breakout groups (go make something!)
> 9:00 = Civic Tech Toronto Virtual Hang Out

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