Website: https://imaginingfutures.world/projects/in-search-of-la/
Principal Investigator(s): Tawny Paul,UCLA Public History Initiative Director and Doug Barrera, Associate Director at the UCLA Center for Community Learning
In Search of LA is a digital hub for making histories and telling stories about Los Angeles neighborhoods, past and present. In this Capstone, students will contribute to the development of a prototype website that will bring together resources and scholarship that facilitate place-based research in Los Angeles. Students will learn about participatory digital storytelling and will explore how the process of analyzing sources and creating histories can be democratized through user-generated online content. Depending on student interest, there will be opportunities to document neighborhood histories by identifying and interpreting resources and to contribute to the design of a user-generated content platform.