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Creative Disturbance was an innovative podcast platform created over 10 years ago. It died during the pandemic.
We propose to rejuvenate and relaunch the project in different ways:
We propose to raise $2,500 to be allocated to pay students who record, edit and publish podcasts. Should additional funds be raised we would allot them to students in different disciplines across campus to interview people in their areas of interest. This would include data analytics, psychology and neuroscience, physics and any other diploma or microcredit on the UTD campus. In addition, we would pay students to be liaisons to our international collaborators in Columbia, China, Europe and Canada.
Our first launch of Creative Disturbance published over 800 podcasts and had over 100,000 downloads. We would like to triple this number and provide publishing opportunities for students to build their portfolios and resumes. With a focus on the families of students, internationally and in the U.S., we think Creative Disturbance could serve as a smart village, an international movement under way to provide social innovation to the smart cities such as Dallas.
The group is led by UTD alumnus and ArtSciLab Manager Evan Acuna. The first team membership will be offered to ArtSciLab members https://artscilab.utdallas.edu/people/ including faculty and students. We would also reach out to the lab alumni 100 strong https://artscilab.utdallas.edu/people/ . Roger Malina would be the supervising faculty member.
We would also offer the opportunity to each donor to record and publish a podcast of their own, subject to ethical review.
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