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Mixed Realities as Design Intervention for Communities: Blending Digital and Physical Experiences
Design interventions that merge both real and virtual worlds, where physical and digital experiences co-exist and interact in real time, can result in particularly engaging mixed realities within the built environment and beyond that can connect with audiences in multiple ways across multiple platforms.
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Design & Action: Students Create Campaigns about Social Justice, Diversity, Anti-racism, and Equity and Learn how to Measure the Societal Impacts of their Work
This project introduces students to graphic design as a tool for action and social impact. Students develop messaging campaigns that build awareness, educate and inform on overarching themes and topics with a shared intent to reach a broad audience and shift behaviors and attitudes among people.
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Upcoming Uptown Greenville Design Intervention project at 423 Evans: Design in Review
Over the last year, I’ve worked with partner, Pitt County Arts Council (PCAC) to plan and design an arts-based community project for the community of Uptown Greenville. The project is my first large-scale design intervention / installation project since starting at ECU and moving to Eastern North Carolina and was made possible by the Engagement…
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Citizen Makers Workshop at the 20th Anniversary National Gathering of Imagining America
I presented and ran a new engagement workshop with conference attendees titled Citizen Makers in Community Design Intervention + Action at the Imagining America 20th Anniversary National Conference this fall in Albuquerque, New Mexico, October 18-20, 2019. This collaborative and interactive workshop introduces participants to a citizen-inclusive design process that applies an open, participatory model…
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Public Art Installation activates the new extension of the Greenline to promote the space and encourage Social Interaction and Activity among Pedestrians
The installation emphasizes motion, movement, activity, and energy through large, weaving line work, bright colors, and barrel shaped wheels. Actual bicycle wheels were installed on the top of the wall as a kinetic sculptural addition.
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Crosswalks in the Park: Civic-Minded Improvements
After city regulations halted the Art Crosswalks project in conjunction with Downtown Memphis Commission, local artists at MCA with volunteer community members executed their designs in partnership with Overton Park. This project crosses the boundaries between artistic interventions, broadly defined as public art that encourages moments of pause, contemplation, even participation and play and civic-minded improvements or…
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The Revival of the Chelsea Flood Wall: Community activates Future Site of the Greenline
As a sort of citizen-driven placemaking endeavor, this example of artistic intervention serves as a catalyst for greater change in the under-served area of N.Evergreen and Chelsea. The design, inspired by the post-industrial aspects of the site and fused with concepts of geometry and optical art, provides a sense of movement, change, and altered perspective that references…
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Community Members fight blight in South Memphis
Over a three-day work session, Memphis College of Art under the direction of Cat Normoyle, leads a community public art project in South Memphis.
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Downtown Memphis Commission exhibits South Main Design Challenge work this Friday, April 26
The South Main Design Challenge is an initiative by the Downtown Memphis Commission to generate creative ideas and conceptual plans for seven vacant or underutilized spaces and buildings in the South Main neighborhood.
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The Social Implications of “Make Memphis” Interventions in Underserved Neighborhoods
My Design of Advertising students at Memphis College of Art in conjunction w/ Urban Art Commission & Mayor’s Innovation Team worked with 25 square to develop a messaging campaign.
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Community Vacancy Project emerges in Atlanta neighborhoods
Community Vacancy is a project that helps to raise awareness of all the empty and neglected areas in our communities and ask patrons and visitors to question and challenge these spaces through a series of phrases and iconic imagery.
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“That was my Idea” debuts at Aqua Art Miami December 1
“That was my idea” debuted yesterday, December 1 at Aqua Art Miami and will stay on display through Sunday, December 4.
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