We ask you to please make every effort to attend each of our weekly sessions, and to have familiarized yourself with the “assigned” texts (about which more here.) 

We initially designed the CRC to minimize the outside-of-class expectations for participants, who are typically balancing full-time jobs and family obligations. Yet our initial cohort, the Misfits, expressed enthusiastic desire for more opportunities to reflect on each excursion afterward, in light of our readings and in relation to their own professional experiences and personal interests. So, we’ll offer the following informal forums for reflection, connection, and sharing additional resources :

• Occasional informal post field-trip hangouts
• A virtual group discussion platform (e.g., Slack, Google Docs, or some privacy-and-security-focused alternative) or means of personal critical reflection (e.g., a shared doc or a simple weekly email)
• Optional post-excursion Thursday @ noon or Friday at 3pm virtual hangouts; you've all received via email an invitation to sign up for Zoom links. We could share a running agenda, where folks could post potential questions or discussion topics as they occur, and we could invite especially engaged or expert participants to lead particular discussions 

After the 10-week class concludes, we’ll work together — with guidance from experience and graphic design professionals — to create a city-wide scavenger hunt, map, or field guide that exemplifies a capacious approach to search and discovery of the metropolitan region’s public knowledge. Participants will be expected to make themselves available for three or four group planning workshops and two individual consultation meetings in the summer and fall, and to contribute to the testing and execution of our project. We can calibrate the ambition of our endeavor to the amount of time, energy, and interest you can bring to it.