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KATRINA PROJECT KATRINA PROJECT

18 OCTOBER 2005 18 OCTOBER 2005
EDA, UCLA ART|SCI CENTER EDA, UCLA ART|SCI CENTER

Research and initial design concept Development of an interactive community
ideas led by Professor Henri Lucas. In based website led by Art | Sci
collaboration with Dr. Ken Wells and director, Victoria Vesna and graduate
Dr. Bowen Chung, Department of Health student researcher, Estevan Carlos
Services Professor Henri Lucas led his Benson. In collaboration with Brittany
design class, DMA 154A to do extensive Butler, Director of Reach Nola Partner
research on the Katrina disaster. Initiatives and Ben Springate, Academic
The class was visited on a number co-chair. A two-year $50K grant from the
of occasions by community members as UCLA Center for Community Partnerships
well as researchers from the medical has been awarded to the Art|Science
school to give feedback to the work Center to further develop and evolve the
they accomplished. A symposium was Katrina Project. The Katrina Project
conducted that helped clarify the needs explores the crucial importance of
and establish the goals of the research digital communication for the poor in
project. natural (and unnatural) disasters. It
has been two years since the hurricanes
KATRINA PROJECT TEAM: Ken Wells and Katrina and Rita ravaged the Gulf-
Bowen Chung (UCLA Medical School), states. The immediate response to those
Eric Mercier, Loretta Jones, Charlene disasters mobilized many social and
Williams (Witness for Wellness), health programs, but it is unclear how
Henri Lucas (Communication Designer, many have been sustained and have been
Design|Media Arts, UCLA), Ramesh effective.
Srinavasan (Communication Studies,
UCLA)
Estevan Carlos Benson (Graduate Student
Researcher, Design|Media Arts, UCLA),
Danni Chen (Undergraduate Student
Researcher, Design|Media Arts, UCLA),
Steven Zadie (Undergraduate Student
Researcher, Design|Media Arts, UCLA).

INSTITUTIONAL COLLABORATORS: Ecumenical
Congress of Black Churches, LA County
Dept for Mental Health, UCLA RAND
center for Media and Medicine for
Communities, UCLA in LA, Healthy
African American Families, Local LA
community, Katrina survivors

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