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Thanks for your willingness to participate today and to experience Gowanus from a new perspective. As you reflect on your experience / emotions for Site Report 1, thought you might be interested in this photo that Andrea shared that was taken at the same spot where we did our movement “score” just last weekend:

For contrast, how it looked today:

Please let me know if you have questions about the research component. I’ll be on campus on Monday and can help if you need.

Meet here: Thomas Greene Playground @ 2:50pm

R train to Union Street or walk from Atlantic

Place based Research Guide

Recommended Databases

Gale Virtual Reference Library (Background Research)

Social Explorer (Demography)

Social Science Full Text

Applied Science Full Text

Science Direct

Newspapers

New York Times

New York Times Historical

Brooklyn Daily Eagle

Citation Help

Citation and Formatting Guide

Hello students!

Here’s information about how to participate in the world-wide action that is occuring on Friday. Students are walking out of classes and adults from workplaces from every corner of the globe to protest the lack of action by governments to deal with the climate crisis.

Participation in this event counts towards your grade in the course.

Maybe we’ll see you there!

Best,

Prof. Swift

MEET Off Campus at 2:50 (we will begin at 3pm sharp) for a tour of Gowanus

Meeting Location:

Carroll Park

Smith St & Carroll Street

F/G train from campus to Carroll Street Station

Visit a specific outdoor space and observe how the space is used by people. Where does the walking traffic flow? Are there some sections that are less used than others? Then draw an architectural plan of the area, marking it in some way to show how the space is used. Your plan should contain all permanent elements that are in the space, both built (paths, walls, streets, buildings) and natural (trees, gardens, fields, etc.). The drawing should be done in your notebook/sketchbook and dated. Above are some examples that may get help you get started.

This is a special topics, interdisciplinary, place-based course. What does that mean?

This course is co-taught by faculty from the Humanities and Library Departments.

During the course of the semester, we will conduct site visits and travel off campus.

Topics for this semester are performance, environmental activism, and public space.

The assignments for this course will involve research and live performances that you will participate in, observe, document, and analyze.