Schedule of Classes

Schedule of Classes

April 4: Introduction: What is Neighborhood Narratives? 

The history of the class, case studies http://www.neighborhoodnarratives.net/

Meet and greet/assessment of technology skills of class – expectations and outcomes will be discussed

Outline of special project: Powelton/Mantua/Belmont neighborhood portrait.

Review of Augmented Avenue: Memories of Lancaster http://lancasterave.tumblr.com/ + Cross/Walks: Weaving Fabric Row http://www.cross-walks.org/

Introduction to Blurb mobile, Augmented Reality, Hipcast and other tech resources, everyone creates a blog.

Core concerns: Interaction design starts with understanding people holistically from a place of empathy: what are people’s emotional, intellectual, physical, spiritual, and social needs as they interact with the people, places, and things around them?

Assigned Reading (due 4/11): Mobile Interface Theory

The Pathways of Locative Media

http://mobileinterfacetheory.com/introduction/

Mapping and Representations of Space

http://mobileinterfacetheory.com/ch-2/

Assignment:  Photo assignment: UrbanPoem/Invisible City http://hanaiverson.com/dvl.html: Powelton/Mantua/Belmont.  Load photo sequences into Blurb mobile


April 11: Introduction to programming and media production for Augmented Reality:  Junaio, Aurasma, Zooburst platforms

Zooburst and Junaio tutorial; tech specs for sound capture, photo, video; what is image recognition technology and how is it embedded in virtural environments (games, VR, AR etc)

Review and critique of assignments.  What do the photos tell us and what do we learn about the neighborhood

Assigned reading (due 4/18): RootShock:  Chapter 3 Urban Renewal…  Chapter 4 Means Negro Removal

Assignment:  Junaio tutorial for those who can; insert photos into Zooburst for those who choose not to program in Junaio

April 18: Outside: We will meet in the classroom at 9 and go to 42nd Street together!

Guided Lancaster Walk:  Joe McNulty and James Wright (1.5 hours)

Classroom: Response to guided walk

Inside: Review of AR, more technical walk-throughs.

Assignment:  Creative Response to neighborhood through some form of media + written response on blog (500 words), include research on Powelton, Mantua, Belmont neighborhood

Assigned Reading (due 4/25): Sarah Pink, Doing Sensory Ethnography

Chapter 3: Perception, Place, Knowing, Memory, Imagination; Chapter 5 Articulating Emplaced Knowledge PDFs

Friday, April 20: Special Event for Extra Credit

Lancaster and Public Art - The Neighborhood Roundtable Location MacAlistair 2019/2020: 11:00 am – 2:00 pm (sandwiches and drinks )

Lucy Kerman, Vice-provost of Community and Education, George Stevens of the Lancaster Avenue 21st Century Business Association, Mark Christman of University City Org, James Wright of PEC-Cares, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, choreographer and founder of Urban Bush Women, Liz Lerman, choreographer, performer, writer and educator. Her dance/theater works have been seen throughout the United States and abroad, and students from the NN class summer 2011/Augmented Avenue project.  Sponsored by Drexel University’s Center for Mobilities Reseach and Policy and the Center for Creative Research

April 25: Review of readings

Response to neighborhood and to panel

Sophie Calle, surveillance, public/private, counter-publics

Assignment: Following (particularly in context of Lancaster)

Assigned Reading (due 4/25):

Miwon Kwon, One Place After Another: Site-Specific Art and Locational Identity. Designing for Small Screens: several chapters will be Xeroxed (its big print… several chapters = one reading)

May 2: Review of readings

What makes work locational and is that site-specific?

The Sonic Environment

Presentation of sound projects, sound maps.  Hipcast and other mobile sound authoring systems.  Janet Cardiff, [murmur]Toronto + others

The Physical Environment

Richard Long.  Sculpture in the landscape, tagging.

Sculpture, space and site specific

Review of Readings
Assignment: Create psycho-geographic sound walks on Lancaster Avenue/Powelton – load into mobile interface of choice:  Hipcast, Zooburst, other accessible via mobile phone

Assigned Reading (due 5/9):  Critical Vehicles, Krzystof Wodizcko

May 9: Public Art. Kystof Wodizcko and “Public Address”.  Public memorials, counter-memorials.

Review of Sound walks, discussion of walking and wayfinding, review of readings, full discussion of readings and ideas so far… what do we make of all this?  Talking about final assignment, manifestos, design for the neighborhood – digital divide

Assigned Reading (due 5/16): Creating Democracy: A Dialogue with Krystof Wodiczko

Assignment: Put Something Here v 1.0

May 16: Public Art: Electronic Disturbance Theater/b.a.n.g lab

Assigned Reading (due 5/16): Creating Democracy: A Dialogue with Krystof Wodiczko available on library website

Review Put Something Here

Assignment: Put Something Here v 1.2

May 23: Mapping

History of mapping, looking at Infinite City by Rebecca Solnit

Review: Put Something Here 1,2
Assigned Reading (due 5/23):

One Place After Another, Site-Specific Art and Locational Identity" by Miwon Kwon, MIT press 2002, Chapter 4: "From Site to Community in New Genre Public Art: The Case of 'Culture in Action'" available on library reserves.

Topics Covered in Class:

Designing for the Community, Counter-publics, getting community feedback

Design schema for mobile and transmedia: multi-platforms, multi-modal; map as interface

Talking about final assignment, statements (Manifestos), bios, reflections on the neighborhood

Assigment:  Zooburst, Junaio or Aurasma platforms – transfer one or all projects into this format

May 30: Workshop/Production

AR reviews; design reviews

June 6 Testing Project on-site/Trouble-shooting

All media due and reflections posted to your blogs.

Assignment: Fixing trouble/Re-test; read each other’s blogs

June 13: Final Evaluation/Critique Roundtable: invited guests