Stretching Our Stories: Digital World-making in Troubled Times (SOS)
| Funding Agency: | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Partnership Development Grants, eCampusOntario Grant |
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| Principal Investigator: | Carla Rice |
| Principal Investigator: | Chelsea Jones |
| URL: | https://revisionstorymaking.ca |
Re•Vision Online Story-Making
The SOS development will be guided by two separate grants: SSHRC Partnership Development Grant (Dr. Carla Rice) and an eCampusOntario grant (Dr. Chelsea Jones, Brock University). Stretching our Stories: Digital World-making in Troubled Times (SOS) is establishing a new online arts- and story-based research program that responds directly to four distinct community-university groups of intellectually and physically disabled, Indigenous, and trans and gender non-conforming (TGNC) storytellers in Ontario and Alberta.
As an intersectional, arts-based social justice partnership, SOS is establishing a cross-provincial online collaborative with 90+ story-makers creating multimedia story-making tools and methodologies that cross digital divides and train highly qualified personnel in collaborative, interdisciplinary, cross-sectorial activism.
Conceived of and led by disabled, Indigenous, and TGNC storytellers confronting the uneven impacts of digital divides and social unrest, SOS expands generative relationships between the Re•Vision Centre for Art and Social Justice at the University of Guelph, Tangled Art + Disability (Toronto), story-makers at Humber College’s Community Integration through Education program (Toronto), the WAABAN Indigenous Teacher Education program, York University (Toronto), Women’s and Gender Studies at Athabasca University (Edmonton), and the School of Disability Studies at Toronto Metropolitan University (Toronto).