Thursday, October 17, 2013
OTR Campaign Project Reports
For this blog post, we would like each OTR Campaign Project group to write up a report of their current plans, based on meetings in class thus far. We would like the report to cover the following: 1) Provide an account of the group’s plans and the project’s purpose; 2) Explain the expected learning outcomes for the student group, as well as for the community members, or audiences, that the project will be engaging. What do you as students expect to learn through this engagement with the community? What do you hope the community learns through engagement with your project? Only one member of your group needs to post the report. The report should be about 200 words. Please post before our next class meeting, October 23rd.
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I am posting for the writing group.
ReplyDelete1. We would like to put together a zine that investigates various aspects of the Over-the-Rhine community and compiles them into one space. We plan on interviewing business owners in Over-the-Rhine to see how socially aware they are. We also plan on taking submissions from community citizens through Dr. Wilkey's writing class at the Drop Inn Center in order to get a resident's view of the area and why it is important. Last, but not least, we would like to take submissions from other students in the class to see what we've learned and experienced during out time in Over-the-Rhine.
2. Through this project, we are hoping, as a group, to learn more about the community of Over-the-Rhine by connecting with others in the area in a more intimate way than class lectures tend to allow. We want to learn about many aspects of Over-the-Rhine, hence the somewhat scattered nature of the types of submissions we are taking. We then hope to release the zine into the community so others in the area can experience the same kind of learning we have. We want people to hear opinions that they may not otherwise hear, and therefore learn about Over-the-Rhine in a potentially new way.
Event Group
ReplyDeleteThe theme of the event is “Express Yourself”
The main goal of our group is a community art event expressed through multiple forms (spoken word, open mike, rapping, beep boxing, poetry, dancing, music etc.). We're hoping to involve Elementz, The Women's Writing Group at Peaslee and Rothenberg students. Those three groups represent a wide range of community members to ensure that various peoples—including those reached though our advertizing—attend the event, not just the small number of people we know. A community event should represent the community.
We are contacting local businesses to see if we can buy discounted goods and resell them for a profit at various locations throughout the area. Those funds will go to the Rothenberg students for their Atlanta trip in the spring and Elementz. The event will take place at the end of November, giving us enough time to raise a significant contribution.
OTR is defined by its people, expressing who they are, where they come from will be a unifying for the community and the funds raised before and during the event will be helping the children of the community. In addition to that, as students we will gain an understanding the efforts and planning that go into creating such as event.
Event group members: Collyn Greenhill, Crystal Owhoso, Emily Donnell, Erika Strong, Mark Brasset, Manal Osman, Rachel Sullivan, Stan Warrenhuffman.
DeleteFor this project I knew that I wanted to create some type of visual piece that could be experienced out on the street in the neighborhood, rather than just a zine or pamphlet. While creating informative literature is important, I personally think the only people who will pick it up or read it are already aware of the community's problems: I want to have a conversation with the new residents. The website otrgateway.org has a map of OTR south of Liberty, wih a lot of the new development of various types marked out. However, one thing that my group and I noticed is that none of the vital social services are marketed or mentioned. We would like to alter this map to include all the services, while still maintaining a similar design that people have grown accustom to. After creating the map, we would like to post and plant these maps around the neighborhood, for example on the windows o Buddy’s Place, Venice on Vine, or even a two-sided stand outside of our apartments. This type of guerilla art installation could be very effective at educating people about the services in the neighborhood that they might not have been aware of.
ReplyDeleteWill, Halley, Brandon, and Candido
Jack Bowe, Candido Garcia
ReplyDeleteTimeline Plaque
1.) We are planning to detail and build a plaque for OTRCH buildings that makes their presence recognizable to the neighborhood, as well as detailing the history of the building and possibly citing important residents that have lived there. We will coordinate a possible site with OTRCH and discover the history of the site. We will then find materials and mediums, probably the CNC machine in Oxford and concrete, to prototype the sign. Hopefully we could plan an installation by the end of the semester.
2.) This project will help us as students in helping to familiarize ourselves with many aspects of design build. We will have to learn how to design and use the CNC router in Oxford, as well as consulting with John Fleming on determining the right concrete mix with aggregate. We will have to detail the plaque to be waterproof as well as plan installation hardware. Also, we will be engaging ourselves in learning and spreading the history of OTRCH. The community can benefit from this project in that it will learn more about the neighborhood’s history and hopefully build solidarity with OTRCH. Visitors to the community may notice it and become aware of the People’s history and OTRCH. Hopefully even the tour groups will notice the plaque and ask questions about it. We feel that this is a subtle but important project to enhance OTR’s urban fabric.
Timeline Group
ReplyDeleteThis group would enhance/expand the timeline, treating it as infographic, with the goal of making information more visual, accessible, and engaging. When completed, the information should be found and processed more quickly and clearly.
The learning outcomes would be to continue the legacy of documenting history so people have access to the information. The timeline could be used by organizations as a tool to tell the story of the People’s movement. It would also be an opportunity to learn about what makes an effective infographic, and to better communicated the information to the community.
The laundry list of potential adjustments:
1) Reconsider the objective/look of the timeline. What do we want people to feel looking at this? Fist? Or Peace and Sunflowers? Factual? Or something else?
2) Clean up distracting grunge, fonts, etc.
3) Visually categorize types of events (deaths, law, events, etc)
4) Add descriptions to some of the lesser known events, or digital hyperlinks to additional information
5) Add imagery to the timeline, such as photos of the people, buildings, etc. Put a face to some of these names. Take away generic imagery.
6) Update timeline with events from 9/2011 to present. Or add our own event to this timeline.
7) Add parallel timeline(s) of significant federal law dates/civil rights events
Additional Ideas/questions:
1) Condense the timeline down to a flyer/poster to be distributed?
2) Rethinking how we store/display the timeline. Are we okay with a crumpled banner?
3) What really makes a living document?