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Memorial for the Completed Life of Marge Philbrook

6/8/2020

 
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You dare to say Yes--
and experience a meaning. 
You repeat the Yes--
and all things acquire a meaning. 
When everything has a meaning,
how can you live anything but a Yes.
 
Dag Hammarskjöld, Markings

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Archives Project Enters a New Decade with a New Name and New Tools

2/3/2020

 
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ICA Board Chair Ruth Gilbert leads a tour of the archives kept in the basement of ICA GreenRise.
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The ICA Global Archives is a robust, volunteer-driven project working to connect ICA’s past with future generations by transforming more than 60 years of documentation of ICA programs, projects, methods and training into a website that will be accessible to anyone in the world. 

For years, the archival work was inextricably linked to the premises of ICA GreenRise, which house a significant part of ICA’s collected works. Each spring and fall, ICA colleagues would travel from around the United States and beyond to attend week-long working meetings known as Sojourns.

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Meida Teresa McNeal Finds Her History in the Global Archives

12/19/2019

 
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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.

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INTERN SPOTLIGHT: LUCAS BENSLEY

8/15/2019

 
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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.

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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.

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MEMORIAL FUND FOR THE COMPLETED LIFE OF JEAN MARIE LONG

5/9/2019

 
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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.

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'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.

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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.
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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. 
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