Interview Planned with Shlomo Adler

March 4, 2012

This week we met twice in anticipation of our midterm. We started to design our traveling exhibition. We plan to use photographs and audio or video interviews as a main feature of the exhibition. We have been sketching out some ideas. Also, two of our team members will be interviewing Shlomo Adler via Skype this […]

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Parks for the People: Stage 1

March 3, 2012

Parks for the People is a collaborative initiative of the U.S. National Park Service, Van Alen Institute, and the National Parks Conservation Association, with support from the National Endowment for the Arts and Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy. In the first stage of the competition the EDI Studio produced a research-based, content-driven design for park experiences. We started our exploration by understanding […]

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Repurposing of Found Material

March 3, 2012

Our goal is to incorporate materials found on the Pratt Campus. First stop was the Pratt Comtroller’s Office. We found bags of shredded paper being trashed and decided to get creative with the material. We had the idea of building individual thought clouds in which the sound would be contained and allow for the user […]

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Water, Water, Water … Everywhere?

March 2, 2012

Mission Statement A series of three listening stations will be installed throughout the Interior Design Department lobby area—where students circulate throughout the day. The installation will serve as both a private enclosure to listen to recordings on water facts and as a visual surface for graphics and written facts. Serving both as art installation and a […]

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Discussing the Traveling Exhibition

February 24, 2012

Today we met to discuss our progress and to start working on the design for the traveling exhibit.  We were joined by Stephan Klein who was curious to see how we were progressing.  We discussed the pros and cons of using an exhibit system and the logistics involved.  We started thinking about the sequence of […]

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Presentation at RAA

February 17, 2012

Today we presented our progress at Ralph Appelbaum and Associates.  Our presentation included updates on our website and blog, research on precedent websites, participatory experiences, and traveling exhibitions.

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The Bolechow Questionnaire

February 14, 2012

The questionnaire is ready to go!  Here is our final design for the questionnaire that will be available on our blog site.  It is directed towards Galician Jews that have objects they would like to be incorporated in the Bolechow Synagogue Museum.

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The Bolechow Heritage Project Blog is Live!

February 10, 2012

Our first initiative to collect people’s stories and photography is through our project blog. We hope the blog becomes a forum and a place for Bolechow descendants and anyone who has memories of the town to connect and tell their stories.  Here they can share memories, and photographs of artifacts from the area.  The blog […]

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Site Visit

February 7, 2012

This week we went to visit the site of the performance.  It will be taking place on May 9th at The Mary Louis Academy in Jamaica.  While there we took field measurements and photographed the space so we could construct a model back in studio.  The model will allow us to play around with the […]

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Memorial Inspiration

February 3, 2012

This year our studio has teamed up with the exhibition design firm, Ralph Appelbaum Associates.  Today they gave us a presentation on memorials of various types from artistic representations to actual museums. During this project we have been going back and forth about how much of the story to “memorialize” to remember the lost and […]

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