The Humanities Collaboratory welcomes four Proposal Development Grant teams for our current grant cycle!
I Walk Under the Earth; Lightly, in a Cloud of 300,000 Points. A Portal to the Ancient City of Teotihuacán through LiDAR Surveys, Digital Preservation, and Immersive Storytelling is led by PI Robert Adams from the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Design. This project seeks to deepen humanities-driven understanding of the archaeological site Teotihuacán in Mexico through advanced survey methods, cultural history, and design-based strategies for vivid and interpretive storytelling, curation, and preservation.
The concept of “algorithmic reparation” brings together theories of intersectionality with acts of repair, with the goal of recognizing and rectifying structural inequity. Operating within these concepts, The Reparative AI team’s focus will be on working to identify and disambiguate global practices of AI repair focusing on the questions: What are existing practices of repair, both locally and globally? What is an interdisciplinary theoretical framework for reparative AI? Reparative AI is led by PI Germaine Halegoua, Associate Professor of Communication and Media.
The Lifespan Project interrogates the concept of lifespan in all things material and immaterial, as it looks at the used, the expired, and the useless as something other than the end of a life cycle. Through an interdisciplinary approach blending architecture, literary and cultural studies, and race and gender studies, the team examines individual salvaging practices through the combined lens of degradation (environmental, consumerism), vulnerability (human and nonhuman), and grief (personal). This team is led by PI Benedicte Boisseron, Professor of Afroamerican & African Studies and Romance Languages & Literature.
From Revitalization to Reclamation: Reinforcing Nishnaabeg Language Pedagogy and Indigenous Epistemologies at the University and Beyond is led by PI Cherry Meyer, Assistant Professor of American Culture. The team seeks to elevate the presence of Nishnaabe (Ojibwe, Odawa and Potawatomi) language and culture both within and outside the University of Michigan community by launching initiatives focused on language vitality, cultural heritage and strengthening the historically significant partnership between the University of Michigan and the Nishnaabe peoples.
You can find more information on our Proposal Development Grants here, as well as links to all of the team’s pages.