Final Project: Identifying the Carleton Tradition

Buildings rise and fall, classes come and go, but the culture remains in place.

This project is set to explore how Carleton students (Carls) have interacted on a campus that has changed over time. The goal is to identify key aspects of interactions among Carls and the pervasive cultural formed through and upon them. In addition, by placing cultural interactions in a geographical context we hope to delve into the relationship between the Carleton physical landscape and the culture pervasive among Carls.

Methodology

In the course of this project we hope to utilize videos and images acquired from the Carleton Archives and other departments of the college which identify and depict the cardinal aspects of the longstanding Carleton College tradition.

We hope to identify the locations in which the media was set and then map the locations to comparatively contemporary maps. Following which we hope to identify sufficiently modern media to map as well; if this cannot be done we will create the media, while remaining true to the identified Carleton traditions, ourselves.

To conclude this project we hope to map the settings in which the media was taken, developing a virtual tour of Carleton, that incorporates Carleton Tradition, Geography, and Time.

Proposed Timeline

• Week 8
  • Complete the compilation the acquisition and if need be development of media.
  • Filter through media, making decisions on which we want to be represented in the final projects.
  • Identify and finalize cultural themes.
  • Categorize each image with its cultural themes.
• Week 9
  • Begin development of Story-Map, mapping the location of the images.
  • Write text to accompany each image in the Story-Map and finalize the story we are attempting to tell.
  • Complete final revisions on the story map.
  • Begin preparing and practicing final presentations.

Mike Kombate, Gaby Lazo, Diana De La Paz – Team PLM

Individual Project Interest Statements

Helpful Digital Humanities Projects

Mapping Movies is founded on a simple premise: Where we watch movies matters. To understand the powerful role that movies play shaping culture and identity, we first need to know where they have been seen. We then need to know how they got there, when, under whose auspices, and in what physical conditions and social contexts they were experienced, discussed, regulated, acted upon, and remembered by diverse audiences.

http://www.mappingmovies.com/

Photogrammar is a web-based platform for organizing, searching, and visualizing the 170,000 photographs from 1935 to 1945 created by the United States Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information (FSA-OWI).

The map plots the approximately 90,000 photographs that have geographical information, allowing someone to search by by photographer, date, and place.

http://photogrammar.yale.edu/