Students talking outdoors in a group

Co-Lab Focus Areas

RWU的联合实验室 reimagines public stories, 历史, and storytelling by changing the dynamics of whose stories get told, 如何, 是谁干的. RWU的联合实验室的工作集中在历史上被边缘化或被抹去的人群，并邀请他们与我们一起调查和讲述一套新的定义叙事和新英格兰地区的表现.

RWU的联合实验室承担着跨人文学科的公共参与奖学金，以改变社会和生活现实. 公众参与的人文学科侧重于为当代辩论提供信息, amplifying community voices and 历史, supporting communities in navigating difficult 经历, expanding educational access and skill sets, and preserving culture in times of crisis and change.[1] 在工作中, RWU的联合实验室强调种族和种族关系的探索，因为它们构成了我们的世界, and seeks to build community-centered pathways toward reconciliation, 股本, 和正义.

RWU的联合实验室专注于让公众参与历史领域, 视觉 and performing arts, heritage and heritage conservation, 空间和地点, material and visual culture, historical narrative, and public education and intellectualism. 我们对包容性叙事相关主题的调查包括口语, 书面, 视觉, 的戏剧, 肉体, 正如我们想象的那样，人们既是地理和文化景观的生产者，也是其产物.

Three students dancing in a performanceThe Visual and Performing Arts

The arts represent perhaps the oldest and most human means of inquiry, 审讯, critical exploration, 反射, and embodied expression. RWU的联合实验室利用艺术作为一套带来新故事的方法和手段, 理解, 历史, and questions to the public realm through the senses, 经历, 和遇到.

Students sharing their traditional clothing and foodCritical Heritage Studies

联合实验室将成为一个对话和询问遗产的论坛，或者我们在社会中使用或体验历史的方式, 文化, and political projects in the present - in local, 区域, national and global contexts. 批判性遗产研究关注当代人与人之间的关系, 他们的遗产, 和权力, 以及建设物质和非物质遗产所固有的冲突和协商. 应用批判性遗产研究的视角在询问人们如何基于与故事相关的身份来理解自己和他人时很重要, 符号, 对象, and ideas rooted in the past.

Students surveying in cityCultural Landscape Studies

文化景观研究探索日常景观的形成、使用和意义. At RWU的联合实验室, we focus on landscapes as the products of the exercise of political, 经济, and social power and 反射s of the resulting social relations. 这一领域探讨了城市和农村环境如何被不同人口的经历所塑造并继续为其提供信息. We also critically interpret landscapes as sites of contestation, 意义, and significance for people who live, work and play in their midst.

Students filming through camerasMaterial and Visual Culture Studies

RWU的联合实验室将以非殖民化的方式研究物质和视觉文化, 要包容那些没有以这些学科为中心的故事. 从历史上看, 学者们分析物质对象和视觉文化的“凝视”一直是白色的, 男性, 和西方, prioritizing stories that advance dominant, colonialist 历史 and narratives. RWU的联合实验室将提出识别分析对象的新方法，这些对象以历史上被边缘化和被抹去的社区为中心, 并将努力重新构想以这些声音和故事为中心的观察和表现模式.

Students speaking to audience with microphoneHistory and Narrative

RWU联合实验室的一个核心组成部分是通过人文和艺术让故事变得可见. 其中一个方面是关注如何研究和传播历史.  RWU联合实验室的这一领域的工作将有意地让社区参与传播他们自己的故事, 这样做的时候, 会打断为他人说话的实践(尤其是那些在历史上被边缘化和被主流群体讲述的故事所抹去的群体). 这种做法修正了历史叙述，以社区本身为中心.

Students exploring word and font choicesDigital storytelling

数字叙事是一种强大的资源，既可以破坏殖民叙事，又可以构建更准确、更包容的历史事件描述和表现, 文化现象, and social structures. RWU的联合实验室将与社区合作，建立更好的创造方式, 生产, and sharing more inclusive, 代表, and accurate narratives in the digital public sphere, all while preparing students, 教师, 工作人员在内容开发和管理以及用户体验研究和设计方面开发和应用公平和符合文化的方法. 这样做的时候, RWU的联合实验室将有意地寻求消除访问障碍, disempowering gatekeepers that marginalize specific groups, and supporting local communities in authoring their own stories, 历史, and representations through community-driven research, 设计, 沟通, and education practices.

Audience sitting and clappingPublic Education and Intellectualism

RWU的合作实验室致力于在两个方面发展公共智识文化:第一, by engaging in research connected to the social, 文化, and political world around us and second, by 生产 scholarly research that is accessible, 有意义的, and useful to the public. 在工作中, we strive to leave communities better prepared, 的资源, and organized to achieve their goals.