{"id":51,"date":"2021-10-13T09:55:26","date_gmt":"2021-10-13T13:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/from-pandemic-to-protest-we-remember\/?page_id=51"},"modified":"2021-10-13T10:18:56","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T14:18:56","slug":"from-pandemic-to-protest-we-remember","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/from-pandemic-to-protest-we-remember\/from-pandemic-to-protest-we-remember\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\"><strong>Overview <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This exhibit is the result of a collaborative project designed to provide undergraduate students at 2 East Coast colleges with an opportunity to reflect on the events of 2020 -2021, using digital tools to commemorate the experiences of their communities during the Covid-19 pandemic and protests. The overlapping crises of public health and police brutality prompted the project team, 2 faculty and 1 Media Artist Educator, to think about trauma-informed pedagogy as a way to both grieve the losses and celebrate resilience. In lockdown, the team wanted the project to build community virtually through group projects that activated students\u2019 imaginations and collaboration skills.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC), CUNY and Rutgers University are public institutions. BMCC is a primarily Hispanic Serving Institution and students come from New York City\u2019s 5 boroughs, Long Island, and New Jersey. Likewise, more than 50% of undergraduates at the Rutgers University New Brunswick campus are of color and come from New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BMCC and Rutgers students learned about the historical, social, cultural, and political roles of monuments, memorials, and commemorative events. They learned about contested histories and marginalized narratives and then had the opportunity to learn the technology and collaboratively design virtual memorials using Augmented Reality&nbsp; that honors their experiences of the previous year. Augmented reality technology to create an enhanced visual experience by superimposing a computer-generated image on the material world that appears to be in 3D. The online exhibit of virtual monuments introduces the wider public to new modes of remembrance of contemporary history through online dialogue and continual opportunities to comment in writing on the exhibition site.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These monuments were created to memorialize&nbsp; and to make meaning out of the pivotal shared experiences that defined 2020 &#8212; both looking back at what had happened and looking ahead to imagine how we will remember this period. The viewer will see these intentions in the virtual memorials , but they will also see that the students\u2019 creations are snapshots of moments in time. Some of them were created shortly after the radical mourning and rebirth of the May &#8211; August protests and in the dark days of the winter as Covid cases rose. Others reflect the exhaustion and the optimism of spring 2021 when there was a vaccine, Covid cases were down, and we began to take our masks.&nbsp; &nbsp; They are a window into their experiences facing innumerable challenges and still trying to meet their educational needs, seering into our memories some of the moments that defined those first 15 months.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overview This exhibit is the result of a collaborative project designed to provide undergraduate students at 2 East Coast colleges with an opportunity to reflect on the events of 2020 -2021, using digital tools to commemorate the experiences of their communities during the Covid-19 pandemic and protests. 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