For Project 3 I will create a digital archive of the role of photography in social movements in America. With an interest in photography and social change, the combination and incorporation of both was one that I knew I wanted to create an archive about. Starting with photos from the late 1800s and working throughout […]
Access and Accomodation
Access is used in the articles Ableist Architecture and The Technology Gap to talk about how available technology and buildings should be. Both articles tackle current issues of access. To answer the question of whether we should make an effort in providing equal access of to all, I say yes and the authors of the […]
Ethics in Design: A Look at TSA Technology
The TSA has a reputation for being inefficient and excessive. People complain and share their stories about that one time or another that TSA inconvenienced them, including me, but those negative experiences are magnified greatly and can turn dangerous for people of color, Muslims, transgender people, and those who are gender nonconforming. In the article, […]
Present-Day Plantations
Oak Alley and Whitney come from similar pasts, but their present-day uses is where they take off in different directions. While Whitney has embraced its past as a slave plantation and is using that to educate and inform, Oak Alley hides its past in a tab that I only found on their website by googling […]
Stolen Museum Artifacts- Blog Post 1
Towards the beginning of the movie Black Panther, Michael B. Jordan’s character “Erik Killmonger” steals a war hammer from the fictional Museum of Great Britain. He justifies this to the museum director by asking her if she thought her ancestors paid a fair price or just took it “like they took everything else.” This scene […]