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Civic collaboratory1/10/2024 ![]() ![]() Kate Griffin identified UMBC and Baltimore as a site for the second national PLACE Collaboratory convening, tentatively set for June 2020. The initial work of the project involved building relationships with community residents and leaders to enable a process of coalescence: bringing people together around plans they would develop and implement. ![]() ![]() The UMBC PLACE project was distinctive among the projects linked through the PLACE Collaboratory in that its objective was to initiate community organizing and planning in a community experiencing rapid turnover, demographic shifts, and significant social challenges. PLACE Collaboratory Convening in Baltimore, MD Romy and Felipe provided an overview of the PLACE project at UMBC and Briscoe led a conversation in a session focused on undergraduate students as co-creators and civic agents. Felipe, Romy, Kendra Summers (Brooklyn community fellow), and Briscoe Turner ‘21 (UMBC community fellow) represented UMBC at the convening. Romy Hübler (PLACE co-principal investigator) helped plan the PLACE Collaboratory launch convening in Greensboro, NC, which took place from October 1 – 4, 2019. Felipe Filomeno (PLACE co-principal investigator) and Dr. UMBC team members have been active participants in PLACE Collaboratory gatherings and workshops. PLACE Collaboratory Convening in Greensboro, NC Briscoe Turner speaks in student fishbowl far left: Kendra Summers This network-wide community of practice has gathered at in-person and virtual convenings to learn from members’ local initiatives and to distill and disseminate models of authentic partnership, engaged learning, and public humanities work. The PLACE Collaboratory is a group of faculty, staff, students, and community partners organized by Bringing Theory to Practice that represents the eight PLACE project sites across the United States. ![]()
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