Category: ICA Archives

MEIDA TERESA MCNEAL FINDS HER HISTORY IN THE GLOBAL ARCHIVES

12/19/2019

ToP Trainer Laura Johansson facilitates a session honoring ICA 'torchbearers' at the 2019 ToP Network Annual Gathering.

Meida Teresa McNeal grew up in the Fifth City neighborhood of East Garfield Park on Chicago’s West Side, where her parents participated in ICA’s Fifth City community development project in the 1960s. Curious about her own memories and her parents’ stories, Meida began to explore the history of Fifth City.

INTERN SPOTLIGHT: LUCAS BENSLEY

8/15/2019

That in my mind is the purpose of ICA, to appreciate and integrate the many ways in which communities have approached their own development around the world, and moreover to create a unifying language to pass on those lessons to other communities.

FIFTH CITY PROJECT REVISITED THROUGH CHICAGO ARTIST'S INTERPRETATION

7/20/2019

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Meida Teresa McNeal is a performing artist with Honey Pot Performance, Arts & Culture Manager for Chicago Park District, and a self-described “artist-administrator-educator”. She grew up in the Fifth City neighborhood of East Garfield Park on Chicago’s West Side, where her parents participated in ICA’s Fifth City community development project in the 1960s.

MEMORIAL FUND FOR THE COMPLETED LIFE OF JEAN MARIE LONG

5/9/2019

In honor of the completed life of Jean Marie Long, we are announcing a new Jean Long Memorial Fund. Donations to this fund will support the Global Archives. As a longtime ICA colleague, Jean dedicated her recent years to the organization and cultivation of our archival history. She was the touchstone for many who contributed their time to the Archives and championed the efforts vigorously in staff meetings and weekly conference calls with remote colleagues.

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FIVE DAY SOJOURN WORKS TO RECREATE 50 YEAR HISTORY

5/9/2019

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Over the past 50 years, from the Fifth City community development project in 1963 to the fifth year anniversary of Chicago Sustainability Leaders Network in 2018, ICA has developed a wealth of programs, projects, methods, training materials, and more. Over the course of one week each spring and fall, colleagues from across that history gather at the GreenRise to work on a thriving Global Archives project that aims to organize and translate an estimated four million documents into a comprehensive story.

'TORCHBEARERS' HONORED IN STORYTELLING SESSION

2/7/2019

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Fourteen people sat calmly in a row, shoulder to shoulder, holding between them over 700 years of experience learning and leading in community development projects around the world. In the air between the fourteen and those who came to hear them speak hung the promise of fourteen stories. Among these stories was a spark of the collected wisdom that would eventually become the Institute of Cultural Affairs and its Technology of Participation (ToP) methods.

SOJOURNERS WORK TO DEFINE ARCHIVE COLLECTIONS

11/8/2018

Twice each year, ICA colleagues gather at ICA GreenRise for a week of work known as a ‘Sojourn’, dedicated to the Global Archives project.

FALL ARCHIVES SOJOURN TO READY WEBSITE LAUNCH

10/2/2018

The upcoming bi-annual ICA Global Archives Sojourn, from October 21st through October 27th, will be a time to engage with the current work of the Archives, focusing on the content of three collections—Social Process, Imaginal Education, and Other World—ahead of the launch of the first ICA Global Archives website.

ICA ARCHIVES GO DIGITAL

8/21/2018

ICA Global Archives Team works to recover, organize, digitize, and reimagine more than 50 years of work by the Institute of Cultural Affairs and Ecumenical Institute. This vital work is made possible by the incredible volunteer commitment of ICA colleagues across the world.

RECAPPING FALL ICA ARCHIVES SOJOURN 2017

10/31/2017

This Fall Sojourn, October 9-13, brought together 54 colleagues, more than any prior Sojourn. In addition to regular sojourn activities, those gathered celebrated the 40th Anniversary of the International Human Development Projects (HDPs). ICA’s HDP’s were ‘concerned with the human factor in world development’ and aimed to build the capacity of communities around the world so that local communities could create and implement their own plans for change.

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