Picturing Milwaukee: Sherman Park Summer 2018 Buildings-Landscapes-Cultures Field School
June 4 - July 13, 2018 |
Class Dates: June 4 - July 13, 2018; Final exhibit: July 21, 2018
Preparatory Workshop (attendance required), Tuesday, May 29. 2018, 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM. School of Architecture and Urban Planning, UWM
You may participate in this field school free as a community intern. However if you want university credits you will need to sign up for summer school classes at http://www4.uwm.edu/schedule
We will be accepting a maximum of 15 students. You may take a maximum of 6 credits. Choose from the list below.
ARCH 534 Field Study. –3 cr.
ARCH 553: Vernacular Buildings/Groupings
ARCH 561 Measured Drawing for Architects. –3 cr.
ARCH 562 Preservation Technology Laboratory. –3 cr.
This summer course provides students an immersion experience in the field recording of the built environment and cultural landscapes and an opportunity to learn how to write history literally “from the ground up.” The 2018 field school focuses on Sherman Park, a racially, economically and culturally diverse neighborhood known for its artist communities and active neighborhood groups. We are interested in examining what environmental justice and climate justice mean to the residents of Sherman Park, how they define and address these issues at a grassroots level, and how individual practices of caring and stewardship ensure equitable access to resources for all community residents.
This project seeks to employ the enduring creativity of storytelling, the power of digital humanities, and depth of local knowledge to galvanize Milwaukee residents to talk about their homes as repositories of community memory, spaces of caring and markers of civic pride. Students will learn how to “read” buildings within their urban material, social, ecological and cultural contexts, create reports on historic buildings and cultural landscapes and produce multimedia documentaries.
The five-week course calendar covers a broad array of academic skills. Workshops during Week 1 will focus on photography, measured drawings, documentation and technical drawings; no prior experience is necessary. Week 2 will include archival and historical research focusing on the study of the built environment. Week 3 schedule includes workshops on oral history interviewing and digital ethnography. Week 4 is centered on mapping and archival research. Week 5 and 6 will be devoted to producing final reports and multi-media documentaries.
Nationally recognized faculty directing portions of this school include Jeffrey E. Klee, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Anna Andrzejewski, Associate Professor of Art History, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Michael H. Frisch, Professor and Senior Research Scholar, University at Buffalo, Guha Shankar, Folklife Specialist at the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., and Arijit Sen, Associate Professor of Architecture, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee.
Documentary equipment, and supplies, will be provided, but students must be able to fund their own travel, meals and modest lodging accommodations (if they are from out of town).
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Website:
thefieldschool.weebly.com/application.html |
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| Location Information |
2131 E Hartford Avenue
Milwaukee, WI |
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| Contact Information |
| Email:
senA@uwm.edu |
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