Beautiful Futures: Art, Research, and Community Engagement
Ashley Sparks, MFA
Co-Director, Mark-n-Sparks
Artist, Facilitator, Convener
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Let's weave together community-based participatory research, housing policy and data, and cabaret. 

Let’s imagine a future where everyone is housed and co-create a beautiful future full of donuts holes and line dancing. 

Let’s share true stories and daydream beautiful futures. 

Partnering with artists to co-create vibrant and imaginative community engaged research can transform communities. This participatory colloquium will provide attendees with a new framework for thinking about community partnership and facilitation of community-engaged processes. Using The Most Beautiful Home…Maybe as a case study, we will walk through an extended engagement and research process. 

Yes, there will be acronyms. Yes, there will be data/research. And if the timing works out …. there will be some delightful shared visions of a beautiful future where housing is a guarantee. There may also be time travel, torch songs, and a few surprisingly simple but highly effective methods of collecting data.
 

Zoom link: GO.LEHIGH.EDU/POPHEALTHCOLLOQUIUM