Edward M. Kennedy Institute Design

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Under embargo until 12:00 p.m. on Wednesday, July 28, 2010


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Senator Edward M. Kennedy1962 Senate Candidacy Announcement

The Senate is surely one of the most

important bodies in the Free World.

Each year its decisions affect the hopes

and lives of men and women in everypart of the globe...

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Senator Kennedys Vision

Senator Kennedy envisionedthe Institute to be a living,breathing and constantly

evolving center that wouldreect his passion foreducation, history, civicengagement and theUnited States Senate.

Photo Denis Reggie 2009

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Our Mission

The Edward M. Kennedy Institute for

the United States Senate is dedicated to

educatingthe public about our government,invigoratingpublic discourse,encouragingparticipatory democracy, andinspiringthe next generation of citizens

and leaders to engage in the public square.

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A Center for Learning and Engagement

The Institute will be a dynamic center ofbi-partisan learning and engagement thattakes advantage of cutting-edge interactivetechnology to provide each visitor with aunique and information rich, personalizedexperience that will bring history alive.

The continuing success of our democracydepends on the engagement of an informed

electorate, and the mission of the Institute isto encourage participation and makeinformation easily accessible.

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Partnership with UMass Boston

The Institute will be located on the UMass Bostoncampus, at Columbia Point, adjacent to theJohn F. Kennedy Presidential Library.

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The building has been designed by world-renowned architect Rafael Violy.

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Experiential Learning

Our goal is to provide each visitor, each class,each teacher, each student, each life-longlearner with an insight into the workings of

our government that they cannot getanywhere else.

Historical documents and information willbe digitized and readily available and can be

sorted according to the users preference.

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Classrooms (5)

SenateChamber

Representation

ExhibitHall

Areas of Learning

DigitalLibrary &OralHistory

Archives

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Te Senate Chamber Representation

The Chamber representation is the heart of theInstitute, immersing large numbers of visitors ingroup activities about the Senate experience.

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Te Senate Chamber Representation

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Chamber Immersion Activities

Classes and visitor groups will participate in a rangeof activities:

Visitors will have the opportunity toimmerse themselves in the role of current

and past Senators, while focusing on aspecic issue. They will study the issue,debate with other Senators, negotiate,argue and vote.

A video presentation will introduce thevisitor to the Senates structure, conceptand history.

Visitors will be able to browse interactivescreens on the Chamber walls and desks.

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Interactive Chamber Desks

Each Chamber desktop will provide informationabout the Senators who have occupied that seat,including their voting records on historical issues.

Checks and Balances

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Interactive Exhibits

Interpretative StationsThe Senator Wall

Exhibit Hall

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Interactive Exhibits

Rather than providing answers in theform of traditional exhibits, the Institute

will provide infrastructure for visitors togain insight into the deliberations of theU.S. Senate.

Through a rich multimedia archive, theexhibits will allow visitors to exploreindepth the history of the U.S. Senate.

This archive will eventually cover every

action taken by the U.S. Senate, includingvotes on legislation and resolutions,conrmation of nominations, andratication of treaties.

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Interpretative Stations

Interpretative stations will allow each visitor to askquestions, research legislation, read transcripts ofhistorical debates and explore the digital library,generating their own personal archive.

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Interpretative Stations

Each visitor will leave the Institute with thisuniquely curated personal archive, which theycan access online to continue their experienceat home.

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Classrooms

Classrooms will contain distance learning technologythat connects students at the Institute andaround the world with Senators, public ofcials,prominent educators and international leaders.

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Te Digital Library

The Institute will partner with other institutionsto digitize historical materials, and create acomprehensive online digital library about theU.S. Senate.

The Institute willpreserve and expandpublic access to theserecords including

original documents,images, video andaudio.

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Oral History Project

The Edward M. Kennedy Oral History Project is thelargest oral history project of an American political gureever undertaken.

Done in partnership with the Miller Center of PublicAffairs at the University of Virginia, the project willdocument the contributions of Senator Kennedy duringhis 47 years of service and the role of the Senate itself inshaping Americas recent history.

200 persons were interviewed, including current and former

members of the Senate and House, Administrationofcials, foreign leaders, Senate staff, issue advocates,journalists, family and friends. Senator Kennedy personallyparticipated in 29 in-depth oral history interviews,producing over 60 hours of taped audio.

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Oral History Project

The project will help bring the past alive for futuregenerations and enable students, scholars, journalists,and the public to learn about American democracydirectly from those who have had a role in guidingit. When completed, the audio tapes and transcripts

will be available at the Institute to scholars, students,journalists and the public.

Doris Kearns Goodwin,Pulitzer Prize-winning historian

Senator Kennedys oral history will be a treasure forfuture historians interested not only in the life of anextraordinary politician involved in the central eventsof our age, but for all those who wish to follow the

institutional life of the United States Senate for aperiod spanning more than forty years.

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Our Architect

Rafael Violy has been practicing architecturefor over 45 years and is known for hisimagination and rigor, with a provencapacity to create beloved civic,cultural and institutions.

His projects include the

Tokyo International Forum,the Cleveland Museum of Art,

the Abu Dhabi Campus forNew York University, and theUniversity of ArizonaScience Center.

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Knowledge of our Constitutionis not handed down in the gene pool.

Each generation must learn about

our system of government andthe citizens role.

Sandra Day OConnor

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Our Promise

The Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the

United States Senate is an innovative

educational institution that will preserve theSenates past, illuminate its present, and

prepare those who will lead the nation into

the future.

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