Why does it need funding?
In order to create a critical mass of influence that connects communities with similar aims for healthcare, gun safety, and life saving interventions despite barriers in city planning, institutional racism, and geographic distances, this collaborative artwork must bridge stakeholders cross-functionally, which requires organizational funding and development underwriting to execute. 

Why is it important to the public?
Aside from the obvious benefits of healthy communities who are suffering insurmountable grief from the lack of trauma centers and timely interventions to gunshot wounds, there is an estimated $3B annual loss to communities like Chicago from avoidable gun violence and homicides.

Why is project timely/ important?
Immersive time based media and browser based social activism is at a critical point of inflection that makes this intervention possible right now. This is a lifelong commitment, it is a project with the intention to shine light on a societal epidemic over 35 years in the making.

Jordan Harper White is a new media artist working with his creative studio TIME WITH SPACE and its team of developers, artists, and designers to create an interactive mixed reality experience. This user-driven mixed reality application interacts with the user’s real world environment, contextualizing factors that must be considered when attempting to stifle gun violence, reverse homicide trends, create safe spaces, provide access to healthcare, and build smart cities.


The goal of “Invisible Trauma” is to provide community members, activists, researchers, civic leaders, futurists, and curious problem solvers with a unique and creative experience that contextualize a series of system maps to help identify nuanced environmental factors such as geography, access to trauma centers, and school-closings among other factors that correlate with heightened gun violence and homicide rates.

Through time based media strategies these system maps become reference reform guides; engaging civic tech designers to merge messaging and storytelling with data sequencing and mixed reality development in an effort to extrapolate data dramatization from its visual components, with a goal to design smart cities that prioritize the health of its people.


Jordan grew up in the City of Chicago, tormented by violent scenarios both inside and out of the house. His neighborhood basketball court became refuge, but was just as fear evoking as his fathers wrath. Playing basketball alongside gang bangers and convicted felons who emphasized a style of play called “County Ball” paying homage to their stints of incarceration at Cook County Jail, Jordan began navigating his neighborhood’s nuanced entanglements. A standout athlete who beat Michael Jordan’s sons for the Illinois AAU State Championship basketball tournament in organized play, surviving the park proved a different task. Jordan’s neighborhood, Albany Park was home to rival gangs who claimed adjacent courts. Gunfire rang out as almost a weekly occurrence and if no one died, play resumed within minutes, instinctually. When Jordan was 15 though, his close friend Aaron was killed by a stray bullet, he was 11 years old. This upbringing  influenced a lifelong pursuit of social justice for Jordan. 

In college Jordan was also a paralegal at Cabrini Green Legal Aid, which was started by a group of neighbors in the Chicago Cabrini Green Projects who pooled their money together to hire a defense lawyer, whom thereforth recruited an army of defense lawyers and volunteers. 

For the next two years, Jordan was a policy researcher for the Wisconsin Innocence Project who successfully achieved their mission to get wrongfully convicted death row inmates out of prison using DNA evidence to prove their innocence. 

When Jordan moved to NYC after graduating with Sociology and Psychology degrees and a minor in Criminal Justice from the University of Wisconsin- Madison he worked as an Economics Researcher with NYU Law’s Brennan Center for Justice where he contributed to the “What Caused the Crime Decline” report and was paramount in the development of the coalition, Law Enforcement Leaders to Reduce Crime and Incarceration – bringing together 130 police chiefs, sheriffs, prosecutors, and attorneys general from all 50 states, to push reforms to reduce incarceration and strengthen public safety.

In 2016 Jordan was awarded inclusion in the New Museum’s artist incubator, NEW INC. In 2017 Jordan managed collaboration between Vera Institute, and a team of creatives at NEW INC and GSAPP through a MacArthur grant to produce an interactive web experience that demonstrates the catastrophic costs of recidivism. In 2019 Jordan was included in Pioneer Works invitation-only Tech Artist Residency. In 2022 Jordan was asked to curate an exhibition using immersive media for the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) for the 2023 Sendai Framework general assembly. Jordan was invited back to the NEW INC community for the 2024-25 cohort (11) - and will be again a member of the 2025-2026 cohort (12).

Jordan survived an attempted murder on his life in 2021, when he was brutally assaulted by a group of skateboarders who used their boards as weapons on his head only, and left him bleeding out of the brain in the middle of the street. Luckily, an ambulance rescued an unconscious Jordan who later received care at the neurology ICU. He lost the ability to move his legs for 6 weeks and suffered the consequences of a brain injury ever since. This inspired Jordan to change the name of this project from Invisible Victims to Invisible Trauma, because he realized that to heal is to take oneself from a state of surviving victimhood into a process of recovering from trauma. Jordan knows firsthand that hope perseveres for those who seek to improve the conditions of violence. 

FORWARD THINKING IN THE NEAR FUTURE

TIME WITH SPACE is a downtown Manhattan Creative Think Tank experimenting with process, technology and social messaging to produce high impact campaigns, exhibitions, and art products.

Inspired by physical space, relational identity, and reconstructive storytelling in the digital age, TIME WITH SPACE practices interdisciplinary new media that provides a platform for the exchange of multi-sensory ideas to transcend subculture and mainstream norms.

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What will project result in / change when completed?


When completed, individuals who have fallen victim to gun violence and institutional neglect will have their stories told by their family members and by themselves, sharing remarks on their sacrifice as an archive of this period of life, and in participation of documented communal decision to change the statistical narrative.

When completed, first responders will immediately have first hand knowledge of the steps to take to save a life - preventing death caused from trauma center deserts.

When completed, conferences connecting city planners, hospitals, and community organizers will have a shared reference to discuss the potential to save lives.
When completed Americans and citizens across the globe will have a shared lexicon of grief and celebration of resilience in the face of that grief.

Partnerships already include non-profit organizations Institute for Nonviolence Chicago
and Chicago Survivors and will be expanded to include Stakeholder Outreach, Community Outreach, Community Advocacy, and Family Advocacy groups and individuals.


Stakeholder outreach:
Hospitals, Fire, Police, City, Schools, Dept of Transportation 

Community outreach: 
Chicago Tribune (tracks data), Journalism, Economist, Academics, Criminologist

Community advocacy:
Peace and Justice groups, Community Support Groups, Gun Violence Groups
Family advocacy groups and Individuals 

We are amidst 1,200 design hours to bring to life, Invisible Trauma a mobile application working with victims of gun violence and their families alongside trauma response not-for-profits to administer healing modalities for communities sharing journeys of resilience in conversation with a global audience, and in doing so - breaking entrapments of isolation. 

We are looking to secure $250,000 through up to $20,000 incremental donations to establish Invisible Trauma in the innovation ecosystem as a 501(c)(3) with a subsidiary C-Corp ushering AI-enhanced technological advancements that foster an ambition to utilize art as the vehicle for learning about paradigms of inclusion through a diversity of creative voices. 


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