“We can’t move on to the present or the future if we don’t reflect on the past.' Twenty-one-year-old University of Texas at Austin student Joseph Mayang is on a mission to help his hometown remember what it has forgotten.
AUSTIN, Texas — “We can’t move on to the present or the future if we don’t reflect on the past,” Joseph Mayang said.
As part of local nonprofit E4 Youth’s Austin Digital Heritage Project, college students worked with local creative and tech professionals to create “What Once Was,” five augmented reality experiences highlighting the impact of gentrification in East Austin. E4 Youth founder and executive director Carl Settles believes this program is the ultimate teaching tool. Through their Creative Leadership Academy, students from many diverse backgrounds learn important tech skills while also building an oral history platform that helps preserve the stories of Austin’s rapidly vanishing communities of color.
A 21st century snapshot on the importance of yesterday, while setting Austin’s future up for a better tomorrow.
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