Aligning Civic Learning Pathways with Digital Storytelling
0This showcase advocates for the alignment of infrastructures which support civic learning pathways through digital storytelling practices. It examines Visions of Wallingford, a participatory design study (Bang & Vossoughi, 2016) that convened residents of a neighborhood in Seattle, Washington through a collaborative filmmaking project. Over the course of the study, community members developed civic capacities for representing, imagining, and enacting more just futures (Jenkins et al., 2020) by leading public walking tours, which formed the basis for a documentary film about their neighborhood. During this showcase, participants will see a short clip from the film and hear about the methodology which led to its creation. In particular, we will investigate the dynamics through which this shared creative endeavor encouraged participation from a wide variety of participants and community-based organizations, leading to new forms of dialogue and civic engagement. In doing so, we intend to further theorize and strengthen a community of practice around connected civics, which centers hybrid narratives, shared civics practices, and infrastructure which cuts across institutions and generations (Ito et al., 2015).