Cal Poly to Host Futurescape Events
Cal Poly will host two Futurescape events:
Futurescape Cal Poly Tour Workshop: An Experiment In Wayfinding
Monday, Nov. 3
Session 1: 10:10 a.m. - Noon; Session 2: 2:10 - 4 p.m. (Repeat)
ATL (Bldg. 7)
Free & Open to the Public
Facilitator Gretchen Gano will work with participants to employ the Futurescape City Tour (FCT) methodology to engage with the past, present and future of Cal Poly as an inclusive, diverse, equitable and comprehensive 21st century polytechnic university. Experiences of San Luis Obispo and the California Central Coast will also be explored. The FCT methodology is interactive, participant-driven, place-based, and employs photography as a tool for deliberation across multiple timescapes. This experimental event is open to the university and public. Participants are encouraged to contact lsamp@calpoly.edu by Friday, Oct. 31, to receive preparation instructions.
Making & Doing in STS: Participatory Technology Assessment as Technological Wayfinding
Tuesday, Nov. 4
11 a.m. - Noon
Engineering IV (Bldg. 192), Rm. 106
Free & Open to the Public
This public lecture will explore one example of making and doing in science, technology and society: participatory Technology Assessment (pTA) involving citizens and technical professionals in evaluating technology choices. Speaker Gretchen Gano will describe her work leading the Springfield, Mass., Futurescape City Tour project; share lessons learned from this experiment in technological wayfinding; and identify ways in which images and imageability can be used to identify the collective capacities of communities to collaboratively design our future social and technological landscapes and tell the stories of our presents and pasts.
These events are coordinated by the Cal Poly LSAMP Program, the Humanities/STS Program, and the Women’s & Gender Studies Department, and sponsored by the Center for Expressive Technologies, the Computer Engineering Program, the College of Science & Mathematics, the Center for Sustainability in Engineering, SUSTAIN SLO, the COSAM Advising Center, and the departments of Biological Sciences, Ethnic Studies, Social Sciences, and Materials Engineering.