Graduate Thesis Work: Path of Participatory Resistance: A Gallery Guide for Radical Reflection and Collaborative Curation
Project Description
This work details and explores our eight-month-long participatory process with the Urbano Project in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, a nonprofit community art studio and gallery dedicated to positioning art as a vehicle for social change. Working with the team at Urbano, we created a redesign of the visitor experience to bolster the organization’s mission in exploring how art plays a role in pushing social action. Our installation aims to mirror the participatory design process we employed in our collaboration by focusing on ways that the interactive experience in their gallery can amplify visitors' voices. The goal of the project is to develop a creative space for meaningful dialogue and engagement within Urbano’s exhibiting gallery space, and in their surrounding community.
For a complete project description and process explanation, you can access and read the project brief here.
