At the School of Information, we collaborate with partners across UBC, Vancouver and Canada in research and design projects.
Major collaborative projects
SSHRC Insight Grant (2023-2027)
Understanding personal and public sense making in response to the climate crisis (2023-2027) is a multi-year project to investigate and support collective sensemaking in communities in response to the climate crisis. The project team is partnering with public libraries in 3 communities in British Columbia.
- Principal Investigator: Luanne Sinnamon
- Co-Principal Investigator: Lisa Nathan
SSHRC Partnership Development Grant (2024-2027)
Developing a Community for Community-Centred Vocabulary Work (3CV), is a multi-year collaboration which seeks to build connections between unique community-led and centred libraries and archives doing innovative work in knowledge organization.
- Principal Investigator: Julia Bullard
SSHRC Partnership Grant (2021-2026)
A multi-national interdisciplinary project aiming to design, develop, and leverage artificial intelligence to support the ongoing availability and accessibility of trustworthy public records by forming a sustainable, ongoing partnership producing original research and training students and other highly qualified personnel.
- Principal Investigator: Dr. Luciana Duranti
- Co-Directors: Dr. Luciana Duranti and Dr. Muhammad Abdul-Mageed
- Associated iSchool faculty: Dr. Jennifer Douglas, Dr. Richard Arias-Hernández, Dr. Victoria Lemieux
Faculty research projects
SSHRC Insight Grants (2021-2025)
This project critically engages the concept of multimodal anthropology from a decolonial perspective. Since 2018, this team of interdisciplinary scholars, artists and curators have collaborated to support artist Jaad Kuujus (Meghann O'Brien) (Haida-Kwakwaka'wakw) in creative exploration of digital imaging to support the return of her original woven artwork, Sky Blanket, from circulation in contemporary art contexts back to her community for ceremony. Through our close collaboration in digital imaging and 3D scanning, we produced a model and animation of Sky Blanket called Wrapped in the Cloud so that the artwork could be present in two contexts at the same time--the digital animation of the blanket in the gallery and the physical blanket in community. Wrapped in the Cloud helps to show Sky Blanket's connections to Haida and Kwakwaka'wakw origin stories, material qualities of mountain goat wool, and relationships between data infrastructures and land-based practices.
- Co-applicant: Dr. Hannah Turner