For my Digital Exhibition I would like to present the British colonization of Ireland, as well as the background of Ireland, in a different way than most Americans know it.  In Anglophone education systems the world over, the treatment of the Irish by the British is glossed over.  But it is fact that over three […]

I read the articles about Ableist Architecture, and the Technology Gap.  The idea of  “access” is present in both, yet different. In the Ableist article, “access” is in its most physical interpretation: some people cannot get to some places because of their disabilities.  Generally, the solutions they are asking for is for greater consideration of […]

The issues the TSA has with treating transgender or androgynous individuals is very related to the “Ethics in Design” article.  In the article, it is said that an automatic soap dispenser has difficulty recognizing a black person’s hand beneath it because the design was not tested on black users, nor where there black people on […]

Before looking at the websites, I would consider plantation museums not museums in our typical sense of the concept, but instead a kind of “monument”.  By “monument”, I do not mean it as a tribute, but instead a physical representation of an event, or series of events.  I certainly do not think that the people […]

These African artifacts being in a British museum is one part of the legacy of colonialism.  Modern Africans do not have many of their cultural and historical artifacts in their museums, because they were taken from their countries during the colonial period.  This can create a lack of understanding of their culture and history, because […]