Digital Research, Education, And Media Lab

Supporting collaboration in research + pedagogy
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Knight Library, Floor 1, Room 122

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Monday – Friday: 10 AM-5 PM during term

Are you looking for help with digital tools, digital methods, or seek partnerships and collaboration on digital projects for research or teaching? The DREAM Lab offers various types of consultations that aid faculty and students in how to create and bring digital technologies and methods into their scholarly practices.

Featured Partnerships & Collaborations

Feeling Documents: A Liberated Archives Experience

Don’t Shoot Portland presents Feeling Documents: A Liberated Archives Experience at Holding Contemporary. The multimedia installation opens Thursday, February 17 and run through Sunday, March 27, 2022. Gallery hours will be Thursday–Sunday, noon–5pm. Safety and social distancing requirements will still be in place. 

Feeling Documents is an installation that creates a timeline of artistry and politics using social trends, music, art and culture to promote each of their intersections to social justice. Art communicates revolutionary actions and inspiration for social change.

Mount Hood Stories

Mount Hood Stories is research conducted by graduate students in Prof. Sarah D. Wald’s, Associate Professor of Environmental Studies and English, University of Oregon graduate seminar ENG 660: Racial Ecologies in collaboration with Bark and UO Libraries DREAM Lab.  The goal of this community service oriented digital project is to tell stories that provide new or alternative ways for advocates, users, and land managers for Mt. Hood National Forest to grapple with Mt. Hood’s pasts, presents, and futures.  These stories will be featured Bark’s annual People’s Forest Forum held online December 9, 2021.

Talking Stories: Encyclopedia of Traditional Ecological Knowledge

Talking Stories is an encyclopedia of traditional ecological knowledge encoded in hunter-gatherer storytelling. Created by Dr. Michelle Scalise Sugiyama and UO Libraries with support from the UO First Year Programs, first year undergraduate students worked with faculty partners to develop an open educational resource. The project is dedicated to raising awareness of hunter-gatherer literary traditions and ecological knowledge and encouraging their incorporation into Western teaching.

The History of Oregon’s So-Called “Sanctuary Law”

Led by former UO Libraries faculty member Tina Ching in consultation with UO Libraries Digital Scholarship Services and Data Services, The History of Oregon’s So-Called “Sanctuary Law” brings forward historically significant documents related to the 1987 Oregon State Legislature passed HB 2314 law. This pioneering Oregon law has become a model for states looking to restrict local law enforcement cooperation with federal immigration authorities.

Yōkai Senjafuda

Yōkai Senjafuda is a digital exhibition about ghosts and monsters in Japanese votive prints. Users can learn about the social worlds of printmakers and collectors and meet the ogres, demons, and magical creatures that haunt the UO’s world-class collection of senjafudaYōkai Senjafuda was led by Professor Glynne Walley and co-sponsored by the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art and University of Oregon Libraries, with generous support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Updates

UO Libraries & OVPRI Research Development Services Work Together to Support UO Researchers

The UO Libraries partners with OVPRI Research and Development Services to help UO researchers plan and develop grant applications.

If you have a grant proposal that includes a digital aspect then connect with DREAM Lab through our consultation services. We can also put you in contact with OVPRI Research Development Specialists.

Are you a researcher in the arts & humanities looking to apply for arts and humanities grants? Visit OVPRI’s Arts and Humanities Grant Writing Resources.