Shannon Paine MFA Collaborative Design Practicum 2015
Discovering Jade District: Through Community and Creative Placemaking
This thesis is a look into how communities are shaped and how to examine these changes in a specific community such as the Jade District. Creative placemaking can further shape these changes in communities to reflect current residents living amongst their community. Though learning about community and creative placemaking this researcher expands on ideas of what makes a community though an interactive Community Voice Project which build on definition from community members.
The current body of knowledge around Creative Placemaking reexamines how current problems occurring in the cities and how they can be improved by art or cultural activities. This research will be inspired by the identity of community and how to better understand it through Community Voices.
Here is one of the responses to what “community is” from Voices of Community.
Here is one of the responses to what “community is” from Voices of Community.
Here is one of the responses to what “community is” from Voices of Community.
Here is one of the responses to what "community is" from Voices of Community.
Here is one of the responses to what “community is” from Voices of Community.
Here is one of the responses to what “community is” from Voices of Community.
Here is one of the responses to what “community is” from Voices of Community.
These paper handouts are a proof of concept for the Voices of Community interactions. These handouts allow for Jade District Steering Committee to add their definition of community to simulate how these interaction will occur on the Voices of Community Wa
Voices of Community allows community members to add their definition of what a "community is" and the speech bubbles allow for each community member to voice their opinion. Once the wall is full the speech bubbles, it can be erased to allow for more voice
Community members adding their responses to "Community is" building the definition of what the Jade District community is.
This photos is of the wall at the beginning of the Jade District Event with voices of community definitions slowly being added to the wall.
Completed canvas for community members to allow to voice their definition for what a "community is."
Installing Vinyl of for Voices of Community. This includes the Title for the wall along with multi-lingual translation for "Community is". This prompt was translated into Russian, Vietnamese, Chinese, and Spanish to reflect the commonly spoken languages i
Installing the Voices of Community into the wall.
This is how the speech bubbles are slowly coming together on the plywood.
Carefully adding the speech bubbles row by row. Allowing participants to have plenty of space for their response to what "Community is".
Using the stencil, I created, to mark in the Speech Bubbles in Chalk Paint
Creating the base paint layer for the Voices of Community wall.
