HAL Hub team members Wilmarie Medina-Cortes & Raquel Escobar. In The Routledge Companion to Public Humanities Scholarship, edited by Daniel Fisher-Livne & Michelle May-Curry
The Humanities Action Lab’s (HAL) Climates of Inequality project fostered the creation of local stories on climate change and environmental justice between faculty, students and community partners at institutions across the nation. This chapter discusses two of HAL’s partners’ experiences in developing a praxis of building partnerships and co- creating public humanities projects that are mutually beneficial and center community needs.
The experiences of partners from the Inland Empire of California and Chicago, Illinois highlight how “moving at the speed of trust” brought value to their project relationships and helped achieve co-creation processes that served students, community, and faculty. While both teams engage in the process of moving at the “speed of trust” we can see that it created different approaches for co-creation in each location. These case studies provide a glimpse into the methods employed locally to create public humanities projects while engaging with local community organizations to bring public humanities to environmental justice work.
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