Artists & Scholars in Public Life at the University of Florida and Beyond
UF is proud to be a member-institution of Imagining America (IA), a national consortium committed to using the arts, humanities, and design to enact a more just and liberatory world. Faculty, staff, students, and community partners are invited to join the UF Imagining America Working Group and advance public scholarship through IA gatherings, collaborative projects, and resources.
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Recent Projects
2013
N. O. Nawari, architecture associate professor, working in collaboration with Frank Bosworth, director of CityLab-Orlando, and Michael Kuenstle, architecture associate professor, extended the architectural structures curriculum into the built environment using Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts in Orlando.
The knowledge of building structures in the architectural curriculum is based on part theory and part applications. Teaching graduate students the principles of structural, design of steel, concrete and wood using physics, numerical equations and advanced computer modeling can be a difficult task and with the School of Architecture CityLab situated in Orlando, we are fortunate to have a steady stream of building projects constructed in Orlando during the past few years to use as teaching laboratories. Often it is when students are given the opportunity to make on-site observations of the creative applications of this complex science that the course starts to come together as a critical knowledge base for students.
This term, the professors used the 330,000-square-foot statement in the heart of downtown Orlando, designed to capture the heartbeat of the people who live here as a case study project to focus student research on structural steel and concrete framing and system details. The building is designed by Barton Myers Associates, working with local architects HKS Inc. and Baker Barrios Architect. Special thanks and gratitude are due to architect Jacki Hale and structural engineer Laura Lewis for facilitating the site tour and presentation.
2013
N. O. Nawari, architecture associate professor, working in collaboration with Frank Bosworth, director of CityLab-Orlando, and Michael Kuenstle, architecture associate professor, extended the architectural structures curriculum into the built environment using Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts in Orlando.
The knowledge of building structures in the architectural curriculum is based on part theory and part applications. Teaching graduate students the principles of structural, design of steel, concrete and wood using physics, numerical equations and advanced computer modeling can be a difficult task and with the School of Architecture CityLab situated in Orlando, we are fortunate to have a steady stream of building projects constructed in Orlando during the past few years to use as teaching laboratories. Often it is when students are given the opportunity to make on-site observations of the creative applications of this complex science that the course starts to come together as a critical knowledge base for students.
This term, the professors used the 330,000-square-foot statement in the heart of downtown Orlando, designed to capture the heartbeat of the people who live here as a case study project to focus student research on structural steel and concrete framing and system details. The building is designed by Barton Myers Associates, working with local architects HKS Inc. and Baker Barrios Architect. Special thanks and gratitude are due to architect Jacki Hale and structural engineer Laura Lewis for facilitating the site tour and presentation.
2013
In 2013, the UF Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere (CHPS) launched its grants for Programs in the Public Humanities. The Public Humanities grant opportunity, supported by the CHPS Rothman Endowment, encourages and enhances collaboration between the University of Florida and individuals, groups, and organizations in the community by offering grants up to $3,000 to support public programs rooted in one or more of the humanities disciplines. By drawing on expertise from UF and community partners as co-applicants, these public humanities projects create new and exciting opportunities for collaboration between the university and multiple community organizations. Furthermore, these projects encourage community building, cultural understanding, and personal reflection on the values and experiences that connect us together as neighbors, colleagues, and community members to create a civil and morally responsible society. Through projects like these, the Center for Humanities and the Public Sphere seeks to promote broad civic engagement with the communities in which we live and teach.
2013
In 2013, the UF Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere (CHPS) launched its grants for Programs in the Public Humanities. The Public Humanities grant opportunity, supported by the CHPS Rothman Endowment, encourages and enhances collaboration between the University of Florida and individuals, groups, and organizations in the community by offering grants up to $3,000 to support public programs rooted in one or more of the humanities disciplines. By drawing on expertise from UF and community partners as co-applicants, these public humanities projects create new and exciting opportunities for collaboration between the university and multiple community organizations. Furthermore, these projects encourage community building, cultural understanding, and personal reflection on the values and experiences that connect us together as neighbors, colleagues, and community members to create a civil and morally responsible society. Through projects like these, the Center for Humanities and the Public Sphere seeks to promote broad civic engagement with the communities in which we live and teach.
2013
Siempre Adelante features the life narratives of four immigrants from three different countries (Mexico, El Salvador, and Guatemala) who share the struggle of always moving forward. This film offers a minuscule sample of the large immigrant population of Alachua county and north central Florida. These brave individuals allow us to take a peek into their personal struggles with domestic violence, exploitation, family dynamics, and their journey to a foreign land in hopes of providing a better quality of life for themselves and their loved ones. The goal of this film is to impart how religion and the church has been a source of support and motivation for them in the face of fear and discrimination in an unwelcoming land. Siempre Adelante hopes to motivate fellow believers to become part of the immigrant rights movement, and to realize that these stories are a reflection of the lives of their sisters and brothers.
Concept by Jaime Zelaya and the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program.
2013
Siempre Adelante features the life narratives of four immigrants from three different countries (Mexico, El Salvador, and Guatemala) who share the struggle of always moving forward. This film offers a minuscule sample of the large immigrant population of Alachua county and north central Florida. These brave individuals allow us to take a peek into their personal struggles with domestic violence, exploitation, family dynamics, and their journey to a foreign land in hopes of providing a better quality of life for themselves and their loved ones. The goal of this film is to impart how religion and the church has been a source of support and motivation for them in the face of fear and discrimination in an unwelcoming land. Siempre Adelante hopes to motivate fellow believers to become part of the immigrant rights movement, and to realize that these stories are a reflection of the lives of their sisters and brothers.
Concept by Jaime Zelaya and the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program.
2013
Students from the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program are participants in a discussion of Civil Rights history by professor Akinyele Umoja and veteran civil rights activist, Margaret Block. The workshop was given in Cleveland, Mississippi on September 20, 2013. Students engage in an annual research trip under the guidance of the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program at the University of Florida for the purpose of collecting oral histories from key figures in the Civil Rights Movement.
2013
Students from the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program are participants in a discussion of Civil Rights history by professor Akinyele Umoja and veteran civil rights activist, Margaret Block. The workshop was given in Cleveland, Mississippi on September 20, 2013. Students engage in an annual research trip under the guidance of the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program at the University of Florida for the purpose of collecting oral histories from key figures in the Civil Rights Movement.
2013
On January 21, 1991, an arsonist burned the historic Holy Trinity Episcopal Church in downtown Gainesville, Florida.
University of Florida student interns of the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program gathered 13 oral histories of the rebuilding to create this documentary describing the impact of the event. Along with rebuilding the church came a rebuilding of the mission of the church. That story is captured here in this video.
2013
On January 21, 1991, an arsonist burned the historic Holy Trinity Episcopal Church in downtown Gainesville, Florida.
University of Florida student interns of the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program gathered 13 oral histories of the rebuilding to create this documentary describing the impact of the event. Along with rebuilding the church came a rebuilding of the mission of the church. That story is captured here in this video.
2013
On Thursday, April 25, the Spring 2013 academic intern class of the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program (SPOHP) gathered at Trinity Episcopal Church in Gainesville with members of Trinity’s congregation to premiere the new documentary, “The Fire Within: The Rebuilding of a Downtown Community.” The film was a culmination of four months of work between SPOHP interns and digital coordinators with the Trinity Episcopal community.
In January 1991, an arsonist burned down the historic Holy Trinity Episcopal Church in downtown Gainesville, Florida. A four-year rebuilding process brought back Holy Trinity’s worship site and ended in an expansion of church facilities.
Last year, Holy Trinity approached SPOHP about the idea of chronicling their church history. Students spent the past four months chronicling the aftermath of 1991 arson on Trinity’s congregation and the process of church building.
2013
On Thursday, April 25, the Spring 2013 academic intern class of the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program (SPOHP) gathered at Trinity Episcopal Church in Gainesville with members of Trinity’s congregation to premiere the new documentary, “The Fire Within: The Rebuilding of a Downtown Community.” The film was a culmination of four months of work between SPOHP interns and digital coordinators with the Trinity Episcopal community.
In January 1991, an arsonist burned down the historic Holy Trinity Episcopal Church in downtown Gainesville, Florida. A four-year rebuilding process brought back Holy Trinity’s worship site and ended in an expansion of church facilities.
Last year, Holy Trinity approached SPOHP about the idea of chronicling their church history. Students spent the past four months chronicling the aftermath of 1991 arson on Trinity’s congregation and the process of church building.