Project Assignments

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Mapping The Issue

Today, to responsibly and thoughtfully engage with history  – it must be understood in relationship to larger systems, stories, and perspectives.Students were tasked to translate a component of the history of Japanese Incarceration to a map format .

 

After weeks of researching Japanese American Incarceration, studying components of radical cartographies, and discussions on material language students were asked to map an issue area from their research. Students needed to represent many components, relationships, and narratives that create the larger narratives of history in a visual form. Students explored different mediums ranging from drawing, graphic design, sculpture, and painting to learn either something new about the subject, or learn something about how to represent that subject in a completely new way, or both.

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The final material should bridge gaps in analysis through political education in a mass/pop education format. It should contextualize and connect Asian American history and experience to other communities to build solidarity and power and visualize patterns and systems of power.
 

Maps should address one of these areas:

• Power in Process

• Power in Place

• Power & People

• Power & Rival Geography
   

Building Your Brief

This is an exercise that helps student develop their work and communicate their approach to others. It is important that students are able to interpret and respond to the ask and reflect the projects needs and goals in their creative work.

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Public Installation

This visual collaboration with students will represent themes that each student has explored with their work. The installation will connect to the class site with scannable QR codes for public access.

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