Mapping Lambert's Point collects oral histories from longtime residents of the predominantly lower-income neighborhood about significant places in the community, whether still standing or long gone, and then embeds those stories in a virtual map using geotagging. The project draws on principles from cultural geography, museum studies, and public history in order to provide the Lambert's Point community (which is adjacent to ODU) with a forum for sharing their experiences and perspectives.
MediaCommons Field Guide is an open-access hub for scholarly conversation about born-digital research, pedagogy, evaluation, publication, and community-building; a forum for touchstone issues in the digital humanities. MediaCommons operates several ongoing projects including In Media Res, (in)Transition, Alt-Ac, The New Everyday and the Field Guide. The Field Guide is intended to generate conversations about future directions for higher education, scholarship, pedagogy, and the humanities.
Through our Humanities in Hampton Roads initiative, we aim to provoke critical conversations within and across communities in the Tidewater area through the arts, popular culture, and through town hall discussions. Importantly, these initiatives are often student-led and student-driven, which offers invaluable service learning and leadership training opportunities.