Melanie Crean

Writings and Presentations:

• Title: Malleable Environments and the Pursuit of Spatial Justice in the Bronx
  Writing Type: Paper
  Author(s):
  • Melanie Crean
  
  Exhibition: SIGGRAPH 2014: Acting in Translation
  Abstract Summary:

  A design team in the Hunts Point neighborhood of the South Bronx used methodologies of performance and collaborative, location-based storytelling to contend with the effects of urban spatial injustice in the community. Ideation via a series of participatory performances led to creation of a mobile cinema application as the starting point for public, location-based cinema walks. The application accepts usergenerated content, acting as a new form of generative monument to the neighborhood as it evolves. The project exemplifies how installing situated technologies for an embodied form of participation can help translate local concerns to outside audiences, in this case using a metaphorical, locative media platform to discuss the evolving nature of environmental discrimination, over-incarceration, and urban spatial justice in New York City.

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  • Author