Oh The Places You’ll Go: Ideas for Our Group Exhibit
So I have been thinking about the exhibit we are creating in the HUB. Based on our conversations last week about how important a guiding concept is to effective participation, and our conversation about graduation, I think we could use google maps to focus on the transitions that graduates are experiencing. Embracing transitions, we could ask several questions:
Where are you going? This might be interesting to see how far away people will go, if people have settled plans yet, are they going to jobs, internships, volunteers, home?
What places at the UW do you want to tell future students about? This might be a way to rate resources, or memorialize great experiences at and around the UW. This could also be keyed into a map, and might include photos and text.
Where did you come from? Similar idea to the ones above.
This is the beginning of an idea– love to hear your comments!
julie, 
w h i t n e y, and 
How to Talk to Strangers: A Museum-Based Investigation 
Shin Yu 5:05 pm on April 23, 2009 Permalink |
In thinking about rites of passage and rituals of transition, I think also about how transitional periods can be fraught with more anxiety than wonder and a certain sense of uncertainty about the future which can make embracing a challenge.
That said, in thinking back to the graduation ceremonies I have either been a part of or attended – I think about the commencement speeches given by guest speakers – oratories that are meant to inspire, move, and mobilize. Lloyd Kiva New speaking at the SAIC graduation ceremony in 2000, talking about his work post-SAIC with the Institute of American Indian studies. Former Washington governor Gary Locke, speaking at BU’s graduation in 1997, about becoming the first Asian-American governor of a state in US history.
I’d be curious to know about the past history of UW’s commencement speakers and whether those speeches might be available as source material that could be excerpted from as pull quotes to go with an “Oh The Places You’ll Go” theme….
julie 11:40 pm on April 25, 2009 Permalink |
I was curious after reading your comment re: commencement speeches and so I spent a little time searching around special collections information online. It looks as though the U keeps commencement records, though I couldn’t determine if they had the actual speeches recorded or transcribed so I sent a request to the library. Stay tuned…
w h i t n e y 8:46 pm on April 24, 2009 Permalink |
Add it to the wiki?
We had a few similar conversations about this at the M&W conf. last week. THinking about mapping experience and the distance between people and interactions. I think a key element missing from this is theinteraction between strangers. I feel like their should be some direct connections happening and what kinds of tools can we use to do that?
Also, I still have trepidations about making this about graduating seniors.