ICA E-News – March 2020

Sustainability Leaders Seeks Creative Solutions to Social Distancing

How can we maintain grassroots energy in the midst of social distancing? The first Chicago Sustainability Leaders Network (CSLN) meeting of the year, which was also the first virtual full network meeting, explored that question on March 26, as the changes wrought by COVID-19 and public health guidelines swept Chicago.

One Earth Film Festival Goes Virtual with Film on Bridging Divides

The One Earth Film Festival (OEFF) model is tried and true. For nearly a decade, they’ve made environmental film screenings into social events by embedding our Technology of Participation (ToP) methods to stimulate audience participation. In an era of online streaming and unprecedented digital connectivity where it’s easier than ever to watch films from home, OEFF makes a powerful case for the benefits of physically coming together.

Upcoming Events

Shift Happens: Design Principles for a Virtual World

Individuals, groups, and organizations are in the middle of recreating how we work together. There are theories, tools, and techniques to help facilitators and conveners create the space for them to do so. Come learn about image shift theory and how it applies to designing meetings so that you are able to help groups:

• Create small incremental change in the middle of large global change
• Be meaningfully engaged
• Be responsive, organized, and timely

You will experience a virtual learning community and leave the sessions with tools to support you in your meeting design on any virtual platform of your choosing.

Following the May 7 session, participants will put learning into practice and return for a follow up session on May 28. The second session will give participants an opportunity to share their experience and receive additional coaching.

Please register to receive information about how to join the workshops. We encourage participants to choose the invoice option!

ICA Social Research Center Spring 2020 Sojourn

Recently renamed as the ICA Social Research Center, our archives project is a robust, volunteer-driven project working to connect ICA’s past with future generations. Join us in transforming more than 50 years of programs, projects, methods and training by staff and volunteers into content that will be accessible to anyone in the world through the ICA Social Research Center website. 

You are invited to join with one or more of the collection teams from the comfort of your home during our virtual ICA Social Research Center Spring Sojourn.

If you're interested in participating, please view the invitation and follow the instructions. Be sure to register by emailing Lynda at lyndacock@gmail.com.

Fifth City Revisited

Fifth City Revisited tells the story of a radical Black-centered community movement from the 1960s-1990s on the Westside of Chicago. Part memoir, part history lesson, and part urban planning critique, Fifth City Revisited explores how we create healthy communities while also considering the scale at which we must do this work in order to grow and sustain it.

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