In October, West Virginia University launched its first Academic Innovation Summit with more than 60 faculty and staff and community members. The two-day hackathon-style event was focused on “Creating Sustainable Rural Communities” — specifically, in Appalachia. Dot Connector Studio’s Jessica Clark and Mark Glaser helped…
In September, the International Science Council held an interactive session to “discuss best practices in accessible and inclusive science communication.” Dot Connector’s Jessica Clark, one of four speakers, presented on “Designing inclusive science communication experiences.”
Catch Dot Connector Studio’s Jessica Clark, and Immerse’s panels at this year’s Double Exposure Festival happening October 13 – 17.
In recent months, we’ve shifted our focus to working with clients and collaborators to explore the future of art, media, democracy, and inclusion. We’re finding that this approach opens up doors for creativity and optimism in difficult times.
Drawing from years of both theory and practice, the New/s initiative is aimed to help journalists reimagine themselves as future architects. Dot Connector Studio’s Jessica Clark heads up the project, and has been writing a series of posts about how this Guild of Future Architects (GoFA) initiative is evolving and how journalists can plug in.
We’re pleased to announce that, with funding from the Ford Foundation, Dot Connector Studio and the Guild of Future Architects (GoFA)are launching a three-year project to support diverse journalists in collaborating on projects designed to make news more representative and actionable. We’re calling it the New/s initiative:…
“The question of whether our democracy will long endure is both ancient and urgent — as old as our Republic, still vital today,” said President Biden in this week’s address to a joint session of Congress. But while his rhetoric was lofty, the realities on…
Over the course of this disorienting pandemic and the multiple reckonings around social equality that have been roiling America, I’ve led a shift in focus at Dot Connector Studio toward forecasting and scenario planning. We’ve worked in tandem with our clients to understand the longer-term trends…