They Built A Wall. And White Men Climb It: For my final feature for my News Stories course, I used Wix.com to create a website feature titled “They Built A Wall. And White Men Climb It.” The article discusses the climbing culture at Carleton with a focus on it being under fire for its predominantly white male demographic. This was my first attempt at writing a feature length article and the process required a significant amount of background research on climbing and male-dominated sports. It was also fun to see how journalism intersected with digital humanities through this course.
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In a City Called Northfield: For my final Digital Landscape portfolio, I curated a photo-book, essentially a collection of portraits of students and staff who had been residing on campus during the early pandemic months. The pandemic was especially painful for them because they were displaced from their families and their hometowns and the stay at home orders required them to remain within the confines of the college campus. I wanted to use this assignment as an opportunity to explore the journeys of the students and staff in such tumultuous times, their experiences of being trapped in a country that they didn’t necessarily consider their own, and the overwhelming fear and restlessness that comes with a global pandemic along with the solidarity and temporary togetherness of the international community.
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Perspectives: Through this final project on the oral historiography of the Waterford Mill, my team and I wished to gain a more complete picture of the way the mill has functioned throughout its history in the community as well as how the work of ARCN 246 has contributed to understanding the site’s past. We conducted interviews with local community members, our professor Alex Knodell, and our classmates to produce a short documentary. Information from individuals involved in the archaeological excavation of the site helped to shed light on the material evidence we collected and produced a more holistic history of this area.
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Carleton’s Traditions Over the Decades: The Hacking the Humanities course that I took my junior year culminated in this project which explores the rich history of Carleton’s traditions and past community life on campus. We used WordPress to design and develop our website and traced back events from the late 1800s to the present day and examined the changes that these traditions have undergone in the past several decades that span their existence. We used TimelineJS to form a timeline of all of the traditions, while forming individual pages of background on our WordPress site. To help provide a more accurate feel of Carleton’s campus, we also created a model of Sayles Hill Campus Center (pictured), our student center on campus which is the hub of Carleton’s social activities, using SketchUp. We embedded both the timeline and the SketchUp model into our WordPress site using html code. To me, the project serves as a nostalgic reminder of pre-COVID Carleton from broomball to the classic frisbee toss, from Sproncert to Midwinter Ball, it’s all in the timeline. It was also a great opportunity to generate visual content using a 3D modeling tool, something I had never used before in the design world.
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