Impact Projects

Annotated Decision Maker

Early in the Lab, a group of students crafted an Annotated Decision Maker detailing policy recommendations for ensuring a more equitable energy transition for the Navajo Nation.

Films

Several students in the Lab chose to make films as their method of educating the public on the energy inequities they had learned about in class.

• One group of students created and produced a short film that highlights water injustice on the lands of the Navajo Nation.
• Lab student Luci Lamonica worked on a video highlighting the multiple ways we take clean water for granted, and ways we can support the Navajo nation in their efforts to access clean water.

Social Media Intervention

Students in the Energy and Social Justice Lab took on a Social Media Intervention to educate their peers on local energy injustices. Through tweets, videos, and poetry, the students artfully crafted educational content through multiple social media sites.

• Iona Isachsen posted a Twitter thread on a lack of energy access for the Navajo Nation in the United States. She encouraged students to take action against this injustice.
• Cynthia Lee wrote, edited, and posted an Instagram story on equitable energy transitions, educating her peers on the importance of the Navajo Generating Station.
• One group of students worked together to publish Poems for Transitions on Instagram.

Sound and Well-Being students had been slated to perform the prose/poem “Deaf Republic” by Ilya Kaminsky on Tuesday, March 17th but in lieu of the updated situation, the performance team did an incredible job transforming their work into interpretive essays. One student, Brian Grant (work featured in the attachment) chose to extend his personal experience and wrote a collection of  poems  in the style of “Deaf Republic,” while utilizing the pandemic as the key for his expression. Brian Grant A Silent Dance Between Deaf Republic and COVID-19 Prior to the pandemic Lab students had worked on an impact project that empowered them to created digital sound postcards (linked below), but in the past few days, a few students took that opportunity even a step further by reflecting on their work and their sound experiences in the Lab. To hear and see the postcards, and too read more on their reflections, visit: Sound and Well-Being Digital Postcards  Sound and Well-Being students also crafted The Anti-Isolation Toolkit with various sounds and resources for those who may be struggling with the coronavirus pandemic. Lastly, a handful of students published the Adventures in Sound Podcast, which teaches the listener about the power of sound.

Faculty and students who participated in the Future of Cars Lab hosted a POD at Emerge ASU and collaborated with Intel to have a virtual reality driving experience. They also designed 3-D printouts of cars students designed accompanied by stories telling of their future existence. Lastly, participants filmed a documentary intervewing intergenerational people asking about their vision of the Future of Cars.

 

Humanities Lab Facing Immigration 1 students organized a project sharing cross-generational im/migration stories. The students and artist Hugo Medina turned the stories into a powerful public mural housed in Downtown Phoenix.

Student artists in the Sexual Violence Lab presented through performance a protest to sexual violence held at James Turrell ASU Skyspace. The performance was designed to promoted awareness of sexual violence and actions towards ending it’s cause.