http://www.defineamerican.com/ This is the project of Jose Antonio Vargas, the journalist and activist who came out as an undocumented American in Time Magazine.
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/films/welcome-to-shelbyville/ Welcome to Shelbyville: this excellent, and short, documentary is set in the town of Shelbyville, Tennessee, and highlights the towns efforts to build bridges between the locals and the new refugee populations.
http://ilearnamerica.com/ I Learn American: a New York-based documentary the follows the stories of four immigrant teenagers at the International High School at Lafayette.
[EXPECTATIONS]
// GROUP WORK //
The Do Tank is a hands-on educational program geared towards action, a large part of it will be action oriented activities including observations, interviews, prototyping and creating minimal viable products. Group work is especially important and necessary as part of this, and the cultivation of cross-learning between participants from different experiences and expertise is a core part of the Do Tank experience.
// INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY //
The Do Tank is created to encourage sharing and use of content created out of the Do Tank. Everything that is produced as part of the Do Tank will be under a Creative Commons License for either the beneficiary organization to adopt and continue to develop, or for any of the Do Tank team members to develop going forward.
// APPROVAL & ADOPTION BY OUR BENEFICIARY //
The local beneficiary is a key component in the Do Tank, aligning the values of the activities and outcome of our Do Tank to the mission and objectives of our beneficiary is key. Our beneficiary will sit in the review session in mid-way of the program to evaluate if they want to adopt the ideas as something that they would endorse and support, and leading to potential adoption of it in the long run.
// VIDEOGRAPHY & PHOTOGRAPHY //
Videos and photography will be taken throughout the Do Tank. If you do not wished to be documented in any way, please let us know.
// TEACHING ASSISTANT // LaTeisha Moore |Do Tank Alumni |lateisha@gmail.com
// DO TANK ADMIN // Eric Ho |MILES.CITY | eric@miles.city Heidi Sloane |MILES.CITY | heidi@miles.city Tarrell Mitchell | MILES.CITY |tarrell@miles.city
Do Tank
An action-oriented design thinking course, tied to a challenge for local impact. Based in New York City.