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Homesticker

A mobile, guerilla* installation about the notions of home and loss

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Jackie Liu, Carolyn McKenzie, Christina He, Hairuo Guo, Aveen Nagpal

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Our Project Idea

Part digital, part physical participatory installation using projection and stickers

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Income Inequality

Source: ESRI Wealth Divides

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Affordable for whom?

“A lot of units are 70 percent area median income affordable, $65-$75k, but 50 percent of the people of Boston make $35k or less.” - City Councilor Tito Jackson

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYV_fBJZNQQ

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Rising Costs

Source: Neighborhood X and Mary Catharine Witt

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Neighborhood prices by sq ft, excluding affordable housing and foreclosure,

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Causes and Effects

Causes

  • Universities
  • Corporations
  • Landlords

Effects

  • Evictions and Displacement

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Displacement

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Resistance

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Displacement is the loss of:

A House

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Displacement is the loss of:

A Community

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Displacement is the loss of:

Home

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Challenges & Project Progression

  • ARt: main challenges were with finding an accessible platform for AR
    • Layar: clunky, freemium
    • Vojo down
    • Roundware: seems really cool but we just have no idea how to use open source code - giving it a shot tho
    • Ended up using soundcloud
  • How to achieve an interactive element like AR with simpler, more accessible tools?
  • Gel color filter idea: limited to an exhibition/box installation
    • Not great for colorblind people either

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Urbano Eggy Mobile Sculpture (v1)

  • Blueprints from Salvador
  • Or use existing sculpture if cooperating w/ Urbano
  • Food truck idea? Convos about food trucks as part of gentrification culture
  • Challenge of mobility
  • Projector
  • Preservation w/ mylar

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Station supplies

  • Sticker sheets or pre-cut custom stickers
    • 2-3’ round sticker
    • Blank print-ourselves paper stock stickers: a few (3-5) cents per sticker(~$20 total)
    • Weatherproof considerations? Custom printed vinyl: about 30-40 cents per sticker for 500-1000 stickers (~$250 total)
    • Maybe a canopy will be cheaper

Label 228 stickers (FREE)

  • Markers/sharpies

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Sticker Map

  • Engaging for a range of ages
  • People draw a doodle addressing the prompt: what does home mean to you?
  • They can record a message in our soundcloud album
  • A collection of visual & auditory stories
  • Instagram-appeal?

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Prompt Ideas

As rents rise and neighborhoods transform, is the displacement of long-term neighborhood residents inevitable? What happens to residents of a place when they leave? What remains and what is erased from the homes they leave behind when they are forced to leave by landlords, developers and rapidly changing communities?

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Make A Sticker

Take a moment to doodle something that represents “home” to you. Is it a building? A community? A place that exists in your memory? Place your sticker on the map. You can place your “home” on the street that you live on or lived on, or on something else.

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Share A Story

Call this number: (xxx) xxx-xxxx and leave a message telling us about your sticker. You can also listen to other sticker stories.

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Final Installation Idea (v2)

Part digital, part physical participatory installation using projection and stickers

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Final Installation Idea - Projection

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Loop of neighborhood-specific interview audio clips (Vojo no longer option)

Group member will be there to record new audio clips with their phone, and add to the playlist

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Digital, animated map of neighborhood

Projection onto building wall

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Final Installation Idea - Participation

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Once projection gone, turns into a (semi)permanent installation of the impressions of the community.

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Residents draw doodles responding to the prompt “What does home in [your neighborhood] look like to you?”

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Final Installation Idea - Where to project this installation?

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  • Corporate buildings, guerilla - issue of vandalism?
  • Places like Graffiti Alley
    • Accessible for art pieces like this, but would it reach the intended audience?
  • Places like Post Office/City Hall in Central
    • Locations that community members pass by day-to-day
    • Possible partnership
    • Mockups speculate on Post Office collaboration -> post office labels as stickers allude to graffiti art

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Companion Website

mestiker

We designed a website to go along with Home Sticker and would Theoretically have the link on the side of the board. After the board would be moved we would take all the stickers and put it on the website along with the soundcloud entries. We would urge people to go to this website and see their and many other peoples stories.

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Website link: www.codesign9000.wordpress.com

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Reflections

  • To make this a true co-design, residents of activists living/working in the neighborhoods in focus would be full participants at every stage
  • Borrowing from street art methods/concepts would benefit from working with actual street artists
  • How present are we at the installations? Does our presence dissuade participants or attract them?
  • Partnerships with orgs and institutions like USPS
  • What does it mean for these installations to be “guerilla” and what can we do there that we can’t do otherwise?

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Next steps

Unfortunately our team members don’t think we’ll be around in coming months to follow through with the installation, but we’d be happy to get in contact and work out next steps with anyone interested in taking on this project.

  • Research
  • Time
  • Partnerships
  • Grant