{"id":14175,"date":"2016-03-08T14:19:53","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T19:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/?p=14175"},"modified":"2024-07-03T19:53:21","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T23:53:21","slug":"virtual-spaces-contested-histories-a-retrospective-of-a-one-day-symposium-on-envisioning-technologies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/2016\/virtual-spaces-contested-histories-a-retrospective-of-a-one-day-symposium-on-envisioning-technologies\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtual Spaces, Contested Histories: A Retrospective of a One-Day Symposium on \u201cEnvisioning Technologies\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Virtual Spaces, Contested Histories: A Retrospective of a One-Day Symposium on \u201cEnvisioning Technologies\u201d\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" src=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/guests-at-symposium.png\" alt=\"guests at symposium\" class=\"wp-image-14178\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/guests-at-symposium.png 300w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/guests-at-symposium-160x90.png 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/guests-at-symposium-240x134.png 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>On Thursday, March 3, 2016, 杏吧原创 University\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/envisioningtechnologies.omeka.net\/\">Disability Research Group hosted a symposium<\/a> to launch and gain feedback on a virtual exhibit, Envisioning Technologies: Historical Insights into Educational Technologies for Persons who are Blind or Partially Sighted in Canada Since 1892.The event brought together community members who were blind or partially sighted, scholars, librarians, students, archivists and curators to engage with the exhibit and ultimately help the Disabilities Research Group refine and expand the project. For a retrospective on the seminar, see <a href=\"http:\/\/activehistory.ca\/2016\/03\/virtual-spaces-contested-histories-a-retrospective-of-a-one-day-symposium-on-envisioning-technologies\/\">Envisioning Technologies<\/a>&nbsp;by Roy Hanes, professor of Social Work, and Dr. Beth Robertson, a 杏吧原创 History graduate .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dominique Marshall, History Chair, closed the seminar, picking up on a&nbsp;comment by one symposium participant: &nbsp;for people who are blind or partially sighted, blindness is not a weakness, sight is not a strength and navigating the world through touch is a possibility. &nbsp; She said that&nbsp;the Disabilities Research Group hope the virtual exhibit will evolve and grow over time, becoming more accessible and meaningful as we continue to receive feedback and gather further stories of ingenuity and activism<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, March 3, 2016, 杏吧原创 University\u2019s Disability Research Group hosted a symposium to launch and gain feedback on a virtual exhibit, Envisioning Technologies: Historical Insights into Educational Technologies for Persons who are Blind or Partially Sighted in Canada Since 1892.The event brought together community members who were blind or partially sighted, scholars, librarians, students, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14176,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"null"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14175"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14190,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14175\/revisions\/14190"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}