My final project for Intro to Civic Media is the website Marketplace stories of origin, for collecting, interpreting and re-writing stories of origin on product packages, and a paper that contextualizes this project and describes its motives and hopeful outcomes. The website is fully functional but requires some manual tinkering […]
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My final project for Intro to Civic Media is about storytelling in the capitalist marketplace. I am focusing on the production and reception of stories of origin printed on commercial product packages: brief narratives produced by copy writers and packaging designers working toward an institutional goal to sell products. These […]
Some toolkits and how-tos for the CivicMaps Toolkit research file. Title: Envisioning Development toolkitsDescription: A set of 3 toolkits developed by the Center for Urban Pedagogy in NYC: Affordable Housing, Zoning, and Uniform Land Use Review Procedure (last two are in progress). All 3 relate to specific NYC policies. Affordable […]
In coming up with theories for change in Intro to Civic Media last week, many of us started or ended with the goal of policy change at the highest levels of government. My final project for the class, collecting and interpreting marketplace stories of origin, does not have a specific […]
I plan to complete research for a critical study that will inform a project I am currently working on, a web-based framework for collecting and analyzing stories of origin printed on product packages (ex. “Born in 1908 to a Jewish family that had been making soap since 1858, Emanuel Bronner […]