Week 6 Second Week of Project Two Discussing the Readings Brainstorming Your Ideas Completing the Place and Topic Worksheet Readings The Ghetto Cityscape This essay presents several complex ideas about areas and neighborhoods weas a societyvery rarely think about ID: 239340
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Project Two: Exploring Cultural Spaces
Week 6: Second Week of Project Two
Discussing the Readings
Brainstorming Your Ideas
Completing the Place and Topic WorksheetSlide2
Readings: “The Ghetto Cityscape”
This essay presents several complex ideas about areas and neighborhoods we—as a society—very rarely think about.
What do you think Vergara is arguing about these so-called “ghettos”?
What makes you think this? Where in his text do you find evidence to support your thoughts?
Do you agree with him? Why or why not?Slide3
Readings: “Disney World: Public Use/Private State”
What do you think that Willis is asserting about how Disney World works—or the kind of space it really is?
Where in the text do you find support for your reading?
Do you agree with her opinion of Disney World?
Why or why not?
Do you agree with some things but not all?
What do you agree with and what do you question?Slide4
YouTube Videos on Places and Spaces Connected to Our Upcoming Readings
Urban
Changes in South Phoenix
https://
www.youtube.com/watch?v=woUQ6WtDQbo
Ever Wanted to Live at Disneyland? Disney owns a real town in Florida
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-
hUbIzi7dnw
BudLight
Builds a Town
?? (well,
t
emporarily anyway…)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-xl6UUszosSlide5
Review the Prompt
In pairs, review the prompt and come up with at least one question to ask about some aspect of the Project or its individual assignments.
I will call on people randomly, so be prepared with at least one question. Slide6
Writing About Places and Spaces
Details, details, details!
Since its likely that your readers won’t have visited your space, (at least not recently) you need to describe it with lots of details and provide examples of any patterns or cultural issues you notice.
Bring the sights, sounds, and activities of the place to life and then help your audience understand the
significance
of those
details.
Mostly
d
irect observation but also include some background research!
Who owns your place/space? When was it built or organized? Has it changed over time? Has it ever been used for something other than its current purpose? Why would someone choose to create it in the first place? Why in that particular location? Research online or in the library, ASK PEOPLE (owners, employees, caretakers) Slide7
Issues Going on In Places and Spaces
A good way to know what’s important about your place/space is to ask yourself
what
would
change
about the place
(or
the
people
who go
there)
if it was
different
in some way.
Are there any similar-but-different places that might highlight this? How are these places the same? How are they different? For example:
How is a mosque the same as a church? How is they different?
How is Disneyland the same as Six Flags? How are they different?
Why
are they different?Slide8
Borders, Border Zones, and Borderlands
“
B
orderlands”
can be defined as:
geographical regions where people, separated by political or geographical boundaries, nonetheless meet and merge, sometimes forming
hybrid cultures
.
Borderlands can be (simultaneously) interesting and diverse places, combining the best of cultures and traditions,
but can also be
unsettled places revealing stark differences among people divided by culture, language, politics, and quite often economic inequality.
What is the first place that comes to mind when you think of a borderland?
What are your own thoughts on borders and borderlands? What borderlands exist in your own life?
http://
www.businessinsider.com/satellite-pictures-of-income-inequality-2012-5?op%3D1Slide9
Break TimeSlide10
Explore Your Ideas: Brainstorming Techniques
Freewriting
Limited time– or a certain amount of paper!
Don’t stop writing—even if you can’t think of something. Write that!
Stream of consciousness
Listing
Make a list quickly and don’t censor yourself
Organize the list afterwards, making connections between things.
After you make a list, try taking one or two items on the list and
freewrite
on them to generate even more ideas!Slide11
Brainstorming Techniques, Continued
Clustering
Sometimes called “mapping” or “spoke diagram”
Helps you see connections between things and helps visualize sub-topics and connected topics.
Bubbl.us - site that lets you do this easily on the computer.
Questioning
Use the journalist’s questions: Who? What? Where? When? Why? How?
After you answer some questions, try
freewriting
or clustering to come up with more ideas or connected ideas.
Eventually, you need to ask yourself: “What do I already know about this place/space?” and “What do I need to find out in order to write a good paper?” Slide12
Project
Two
: Questions to Think About:
Why
did you choose your place/space?
What
is the purpose of this space? Why does it exist?
Who
is your place/space important to? Why?
How
does your place/space
reflect the community or
culture
that surround that place?
How does this connect to any
issues
that might be connected to your place/space?
Examples
of Social/Cultural Issues
Cultural and Ethnicity
Food and Culture
Gender
Socio-Economics
Political
Environmental Slide13
Completing the Place and Topic Worksheet
Please get out your Place and Topic Worksheets.
Consider the brainstorming you have just done, as well as any other work or thinking you have done on this project so far.
Then, fill out your Place and Topic Worksheet
as completely as possible.
Please do not leave any questions blank.
I will give you 10-15 minutes to quietly work on this before we move on.
You must turn it in completely filled out at the end of class. Do not leave without turning it in. Slide14
George Carlin “A Place for Your Stuff”
We’ve already discussed how consumer culture defines so many of the places we play and eat…..but how about where we sleep?
Have you ever considered to what extent consumerism defines you own home?
Legendary comedian George Carlin wrote and performed this comedy sketch about the average American’s problems with finding a space for all their stuff.
Be advised—there ARE some curse words!
http://
www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2EkYPlUuwESlide15
Unconventional Spaces:
The “Tiny Homes” Movement
News Feature:
http
://
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IECfC4Ed0-0
Micro Apartments In Abandoned Shopping Malls
https
://
www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1BjQKAuE2U
Couple Living Debt Free
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_
HnTQNkoRw4
Oregon Architect Aims to “Make Small Space Feel Big”—Inspired by Japanese
Minka
Homes
http://
www.youtube.com/watch?v=32WtDb3c3wsSlide16
Next Week Notes: Week 7: October 16
Topics: Discuss Writing Analytically about Places and Spaces
Due:
Ethnography/Fieldwork Report Due.
Upload to Turnitin.com but also bring one printed copy to class for class activities.
Read The Little Seagull Handbook “Developing Paragraphs” p. 17-29 (in preparation for the Rough Draft you will be writing for Peer Review next week)
Please note above that
The Ethnography/Fieldwork Report is
DUE next week
That
means if you haven't already visited your place/space you
now
have only have
this weekend
to visit your place/space and do your Ethnography/Fieldwork Report(assuming you don’t do it on a weekday.)
Please
plan ahead and do it at the best time for you!