We invite you to attend the Liberal Arts Action Lab digital poster fair to learn about research projects completed this semester by teams of Capital Community College and Trinity College students with Hartford community partners. Date: Monday, April 30, 2018, drop in any time between 3:00-5:30pm Location: Trinity College at Read more…
We invite students and faculty to apply to the Liberal Arts Action Lab, located at 10 Constitution Plaza in downtown Hartford. We research problems posed by Hartford community partners, and match them with teams of students and faculty from Capital Community College and Trinity College, who conduct semester-long projects to Read more…
The Liberal Arts Action Lab, a partnership between Capital Community College and Trinity College, welcomes the public to attend its open house on Friday, February 16th 2018 from 12-1pm at our downtown location, 10 Constitution Plaza. See our transportation page for directions. Action Lab Director Megan Brown will deliver a Read more…
The Liberal Arts Action Lab announces its first cohort of five research teams, which will begin working together in the Spring 2018 semester. Each team consists of a Hartford community partner, which proposed the research question, along with a faculty fellow and 3-5 students from Capital Community College and Trinity Read more…
Now that we have our list of proposed projects, we are actively recruiting Trinity and Capital students to apply to take part in the Liberal Arts Action Lab this spring. As a student in the Action Lab, you will work in teams of 4-5 to design and implement a research Read more…
When we started up the Liberal Arts Action Lab in fall 2017, one of our key goals was to invert the regular routine of urban researchers by “flipping the script.” Rather than asking academics what they wanted to study in Hartford, we invited Hartford community partners to define their “knowledge Read more…
The Hartford Resident Advisory Board met in early October to review and rank the community proposals submitted to the Action Lab. The Action Lab considered 11 proposals for its inaugural cohort of projects, representing a diverse collection of organizations, projects, potential methods, and neighborhoods around the city. The Hartford Resident Read more…
Got an idea about how to strengthen Hartford? We can help research the problem and offer possible solutions. The Liberal Arts Action Lab invites Hartford community partners to submit a 3-paragraph proposal on a problem or question that you’d like help answering with a team of student and faculty researchers Read more…
Fred Kass, Jack Dougherty, and Megan Brown tour the new space for the Liberal Arts Action Lab at 10 Constitution Plaza. See related news story from Trinity College.
Photo above: Trinity’s “Hartford by Bike” Tour visits Action Lab at downtown campus, under construction. One of the best ways to really see Hartford is to cycle around the city. That’s exactly what Trinity College students on the pre-orientation “Hartford By Bike” tour did, led by long-time city resident, activist, and Read more…