| Course | CYPLAN 198 002 (#33371) / CYPLAN 290 00B (#14947) / RHETORIC 198(#23421) / RHETORIC 295 (#15925) |
| Instructor | Melody Chang |
| Units | Colloquium (1-2 units) |
“Outside lies magic,” maintains the landscape historian John Stilgoe. Magic, for Stilgoe, is regaining a sense of history and awareness in everyday places, if only we can train our eyes to see beyond what we have taken for granted and train our bodies to explore the everyday.
In this colloquium we explored techniques of place-based storytelling through a series of guest speakers who are producers of place-based storytelling projects in the Bay area. What traditional and emerging technologies do they employ to create the experiences? What lessons can we learn from their efforts to point out local histories embedded in the landscape?
At a time when we are reconsidering how monuments and public spaces shape our understanding of history, recently developed projects tracing the sites of Black Panther history, queer activism, protest art, and environmental injustice attempt to be tools of activism by widening the “publics” who can know and champion one another’s experiences of place.
Fall Colloquium Speaker Series:
Videos for past talks are posted here.
August 30 The Story Center: Storytelling Techniques | Joe Lambert
September 13 Black Liberation Walking Tour: Live and Recorded Tours | David Peters
September 20 Future Histories Lab: Augmented Reality and Audio Tours | Susan Moffat
September 27 Afro Newspaper Archive and Prelinger Archive: Making and Using Archives | Savannah Wood & Rick Prelinger
October 4 Exploratorium: Making Exhibitions | Sarah Seiter
October 11 National Parks and Regional Parks: Telling History in Parks | Brian Holt & Kelli English
October 25 Marksearch: Social Practice Art | Sue Mark
November 1 Eye Zen Presents: Performing Queer History | Seth Eisen
November 8 Walking in Place: Using AR to Recover Fillmore’s Redevelopment Histories | Michael Epstein
November 15 Hood Studio: Landscape and Memory | Walter Hood
November 22 Berkeley South Asian Radical Walking History Tour: Performing the Unseen | Barnali Ghosh
Additional information on this course can be found at Berkeley Academic Guide: Undergraduate / Graduate.