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Allied Media Conference 2016

Welcome to the 18th annual Allied Media Conference!

Browse all 300+ sessions below on our online schedule. Please note: bookmarking a session on our online schedule does not guarantee you a place in the session. All sessions are first come first serve.

Mariam Asad

Mariam Asad is a PhD student in the Digital Media program at Georgia Tech. Her work currently focuses on community engagement, design, and the city. She is interested in the different ways that different Atlanta communities discuss, use, and appropriate technologies to do political work. She explores how technology design can offer opportunities for civic participation, public discourse, and community empowerment.

10:00am EDT

Design Justice Network Gathering Student Center: Hilberry B

9:00am EDT

(Re)Building Technology: Community Wireless Around the World Student Center: Hilberry A Map the power! Collaborative Research with LittleSis Student Center: Hilberry D

11:00am EDT

Poster Power: Toolkit for the Design Activist State Hall: Room 137 Counterspace: Black Digital Activism On Campus State Hall: Room 106 Narratives of Displacement: The Anti Eviction Mapping Project State Hall: Room 128

12:45pm EDT

Design Justice: An Exhibit of Emerging Design Practices Student Center: Ballroom

2:00pm EDT

Nuts and Bolts of Grassroots Fundraising State Hall: Room 113 Property Praxis and 'Dumb' Cities State Hall: Room 128

9:00am EDT

People Powered Technology Student Center: Hilberry A Using Data to Tell Stories State Hall: Room 106 Digital Organizing Training for Black Lives by Color Of Change Student Center: Hilberry C

11:00am EDT

Design Thinking for Social Justice Lab State Hall: Room 128 Hacking Bureaucracy: Tech for Direct Impact State Hall: Room 106

2:00pm EDT

Teaching Freedom in Our Classrooms State Hall: Room 106 FoodLab Tour Towers Dorms Shuttle Stop

4:00pm EDT

Designing Neighborhood Futures State Hall: Room 114 Civic Tech Lessons from Mexico City State Hall: Room 131

10:00am EDT

Can the Revolution be Funded? State Hall: Room 123 Decoding My Neighborhood: Tapping into Invisible Networks Student Center: Hilberry D

1:00pm EDT

Holding Space: Strategies for Anti-Oppressive Facilitation Part I McGregor: Room L/M