Please, vote for my SXSW EDU panel idea. (Video links in the comments) Using XR to Build Community & Close the Digital Divide E4 Youth 's What Once Was (WOW) XR (VR/AR) storytelling platform explores issues of gentrification and helping to close the digital divide. This panel will explore the impacts of training and employing college-aged BIPOC youth to capture and curate the oral histores of residents of the first neighborhood in Austin Texas that was planned and built by Black professionals. - Rogers Washington Holy Cross. What impact does feeling seen and heard in this way have on members of the senior community? How does researching these stories impact the youth creating them and the larger community experiencing them?
Using XR to Build Community & Close the Digital Divide
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Alex Bryant
8mo
Voted!
Carl Webb
8mo
The Austin History Center values the relationships that we build with the community that we serve. As a community-based archive, all aspects of our operation are strengthened by our ties to the people and groups that make up Austin, Texas. We seek out archival materials from historically under-documented communities in Austin and Travis County through outreach efforts and programming as part of our unique Community Archivist program. https://library.austintexas.gov/ahc/outreach#africanamerican
CEO, E4 Youth
8moThanks for sharing Keisha Townsend Taitt and Carl Webb