Joint Ventures  | Civic Design and Public Work

Planning since 2019, this fall just over 400 community engaged scholars, community partners, students, youth gathered for the 

All-In Conference: Co-Creating Knowledge for Justice at UC Santa Cruz 

The conference was organized by UCSC: Institute for Social Transformation and the URBAN Research Action network 

Complete access to content, photos and recorded key notes can be found here: https://transform.ucsc.edu/past-event-all-in-conference/

#knowledge4justice

Paige M. Bray as one of the National Co-Chair of URBAN Research Action Network spoke: URBAN Network: Renewing and Growing Our Community

All-In Conference 2022 Plenary 2: URBAN Network: Renewing and Growing Our Community

With the URBAN CONNECTicut node, https://urbanresearchnetwork.org/nodes/localnodes/hartford/ the Center for Montessori Studies has an enduring joint venture- Civic Design and Public Work.  Find out more about this local and national work through the amazing work shared in Santa Cruz!

All-In: Co-Creating Knowledge for Justice Conference

October 26-28, 2022 | Santa Cruz, CA

There is an exciting resurgence in critical public scholarship: a push for universities to reach beyond their academic audiences and build stronger community-university partnerships to jointly tackle pressing social issues. Indeed, the complexity and scale of our social ills require not only inter-disciplinary approaches, but recognizing the value of community-based knowledge and its potential contribution to developing solutions to pressing problems.

We are hosting an in-person conference and celebration of community-university partnerships on October 26-28, 2022, in beautiful Santa Cruz, CA. This 3-day national conference will focus on sharing strategies to expand and deepen collaborative approaches for the truly equitable co-production of knowledge. We will explore the dynamic links between campus-community partnerships, hands-on research, and student-community engagement. Together we can build partnerships for change. #knowledge4justice

Variously known as Research-Practice Partnerships, Community-based Research, Participatory Action Research, or Engaged Scholarship, the field is developing new approaches that share a commitment to creating truly equitable partnerships across all aspects of the research process.

The All-In conference will bring together university scholars, community-based practitioners, undergraduate and graduate students, community members and organizations, foundations, organizers, artists, and activists to share stories, strategies, practices, and solutions for building innovative partnerships for critical collaborative research and social change.

We will also discuss methods for building institutional support for collaborative research, how to strategically leverage relations with collaborative partners, and how to build cross-sector networks for practitioners, students, and early career scholars

Conference Organizers and Key Sessions

A Presentations

Wednesday, October 28 

11am – 12:30 pm Youth Agency (Paradox Grove Room)

Commitment to Pedagogical Partners in Early Childhood

PRESENTERS: Paige M. Bray (URBAN & Center for Montessori Studies, University of Hartford) and Erin M. Kenney (Hartwick College)

DESCRIPTION: Insights and vignettes illustrate elements of how values-informed partnerships are contributing to the early childhood landscape. Implications for community-engaged scholarship and amplification of equitable practice in community settings relevant to early childhood families and practitioners are explicated.

A Plenary

3:30-5:00 PM — Plenary: URBAN Network: Renewing and Growing Our Community

Location: Resource Center for Non-Violence (RCNV)

Panelists: Ana Antunes (University of Utah), Paige Bray (University of Hartford), Tim Eatman (Rutgers), and other members of the URBAN Network

Description: URBAN has established a national coalition of publicly engaged scholars dedicated to the purposes of ameliorating research focused on urban communities and youth.  As we look towards the future and then next phase of development through our geographic and disciplinary nodes, we call together the community to hone plans for moving the work forward.  This is an open opportunity for anyone who sees themselves as aligned to the network and willing to contribute to the coalition.

And A Facilitated Networking Breakfast

Thursday, Oct. 27, 8:00 -9:00 AM

URBAN Networking Breakfast, Stevenson Event Center Courtyard , UC Santa Cruz