Flickr Foundation provided a design brief and call to action for students to reimagine information preservation, cultural stewardship, and the future of memory work in an open culture setting. Over 10 weeks students assessed and debated how digitized photography collections should be stored, described, and accessed now and in the future. Taking on board critical concerns around social justice, decolonization, generative AI, and sustainability, students crafted new proposals to assist Flickr Foundation’s planning as a “life boat”, “bunker”, and time capsule for other people’s visual memories.

Students: Joshua Auvaa, Dorothy Clement, Umme-Kulsum Darugar,Allyson Wang Graylin, Ariba Aswad Janoo, Jainaba Jawara, Eric Von Carlos II Latham, Michael Quoc Pham, Archita Singh, Chun Hin Matthew So, Cecelia Kaulawena Thomas, Olivia Wei, Qinruo Yang, Sonia Yeh, Yunjing Zhang, Xingyuan Zhao