First Client Meeting

February 1, 2012

Yesterday the BHP team met with Stephan Klein and the President, Treasurer and Secretary of the Bolechow Jewish Heritage Society. We presented preliminary research and suggested that this project become a vehicle to raise awareness about the extinguished Jewish community of Bolechow and to give the BJHS tools that they need to further raise awareness […]

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Beginning the Design of the Traveling Exhibit

January 27, 2012

After our meeting with Stephan, our group met with Jon Otis and our assistant professors from Ralph Appelbaum Associates, Brook and Rosanna. We discussed our meeting with Stephan and how he expressed the difficulty of this project to be built at the synagogue in Bolechow. Our group then discussed the great potential for a traveling […]

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January 24, 2012

January 24, 2012

This week the EDI team met with Stephan Klein. Stephan had talked with us about the proposed project in detail touching on topics such as; the scope of the project, the proposed site, and the end products, which we would present to our client, the Bolechow Jewish Heritage Society. The BJHS is comprised of the […]

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Bolechow Jewish Heritage Society Project Brief

January 17, 2012

Stephan Klein, former Professor at the Pratt Institute, created the EDI program in 1995. Mr. Klein contacted the current director of the program Jon Otis, to propose a project opportunity to the students. Mr. Klein had recently been traveling abroad, during which he visited the village of Bolechow, Ukraine where his family originated. Through his […]

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Dancing Dreams: Project Brief

January 17, 2012

A nonprofit organization called Dancing Dreams approached us last semester to design sets for their spring performance in May.  They have three major acts and wanted us to create sets for them that could be easily changed out but still had great impact on the audience.  The girls in the performance have physical challenges so […]

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Ethics + Aesthetics = Sustainable Fashion

May 1, 2010

     

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