Activist Installations

Juxtapose

Teju Kim and Tiandra Ray
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Isabel's Brief
A collection of three exhibitions showcasing wearables custom-designed for three individuals, in order to provide viewers with perspective as they become immersed in the personalities of people with disabilities.

This exhibition aims to improve accessibility for and inclusiveness of people with a range of disabilities by providing enabled people with perspective and understanding surrounding disability. The wearables exhibited were designed for three dancers, Krishna, who is blind, Tiffany, who has Jarcho-Levin Syndrome, and Jerron, who has cerebral palsy that affects the left side of his body. The exhibits for these wearables do not directly state their conditions, which gives each one a more mysterious, unique feel. Krishna's wearable is shield because she always wanted to shield and protect people, especially to help them feel comfortable when stepping outside of their comfort zone. Tiffany's is called the sunrise because she has a big, bright personality despite being very short because of her condition. Jerron's wearable is called the Spatial Expander because he always felt like he was put into a "box" by society because he is disabled. He wants to show people that he is capable of doing more than they think he can.

Teju's Brief
A display of costumes that are custom-made to represent the personalities of three dancers with disabilities.

The Juxtapose Exhibition displays three wearables made for three individual dancers so that the viewer can experience what the dancers feel during moments of struggle and their feelings of happiness when dancing. Jerron and Tiffany are both a part of Heidi Latsky Dance, a dance company that has both abled and disabled dancers. Jerron has Cerebral Palsy that affects the left side of his body and Tiffany has Jarcho Levin Syndrome, which is a genetic disorder that causes bone malformation in the spinal cord and ribs.The third dancer, Krishna, is based in New York and is almost fully blind.  Each wearable has its own unique display deeply influenced by each dancer's personal traits. That includes tunnel-like structures, walls, quilts, different colored lights and the piece itself. Jerron often felt that as a child he never had any space, so he had to make it for himself so he wanted his wearable to take up space. The Spacial Expander is inside of a tunnel that the visitor has to walk through. The tunnel is made up of several different shaped doorways to make the participant feel uncomfortable and confined. At the end of the tunnel is a light, spacious cloth "room" where the wearable is displayed. Tiffany has a very large and bright personality who loves the sun. The Sunrise display showcases a small figure of her wearing the Sunrise wearable against the wall. Infront of the figure is a light that glows in a sun shape with a large shadow of Tiffany in the center to represent her bright personality.  And Krishna makes quilts and gives them out to the community, and tries to shield others. Krishna's wearable called the Shield. The wearable is displayed in a hallway covered in black and white hexagonal quilts.   The displays create an experience that visitors can walk through and interact with. With the hope that visitors will leave with an understanding of the difficulties, the dancers face and overcome.



Ava Rizika's Brief:

A display of custom-designed for three dancers, portraying each dancer's disability and personality.

The In:Accessible Exhibition displays projects that were designed for 3 three dancers, each of which have a with physical disability disabilities.: Jerron has cerebral palsy, Tiffany has Jerko Levin Syndrome, and Krishna is blind. Each dancer's exhibit focuses in on their personalities, disabilities, and hobbies and incorporates these elements into the display of the costumes . Jerron, who has cerebral palsy, often feels like he feels limited by people's assumptions about him because of his disability. Dancing frees him from this feeling and shows people that he can do what fully abled people can do.Tiffany, who has a shortened torso due to Jarcho-Levin Syndrome, which means that she has no torso, is a strong woman who is incredible to talk to because of her big personality that fills up a room. She loves nature, especially the sun, and says that she gets her energy from the sun's rays.  Krishna, who is blind, will often run into things, and isn't able to avoid that run into her, so sometimes she feels that she needs a protective shield. Although she does not have a shield, In turn, she tries to act as one for protect others in the community, she does this by weaving hexagon print blankets and giving them to people, and by helping people pursue their dreams.


When the visitor looks at Jerron's exhibit, they will see a spacious rectangular cube. When they walk inside they will have the illusion that the hallway is much tighter than it actually is, and will feel claustrophobic. The hallway opens up to a larger room that displays the costume, to show that dancing frees Jerron from the constraints of disability. This shows dancing helps jerron to feel like his disability isn't holding him back. The dancer Tiffany loves the sun, so in her exhibit, a big circular light shines on the wall and casts the shadow of a cutout of Tiffany in her costume inside the "Sun." For Krishna,  a  hallway with walls that are made from fabric with hexagons on it symbolizes the quilts she makes for people in her community. When the visitor walks in it will be dark, which will make them nervous, but the fabrics will get lighter as they walk through, guided by a ballet bar that the participant will grab onto which will lead that leads them through the hallway. The first half of the ballet bar will be covered in sandpaper that gets progressively more fine as they walk through up until the point in which the visitor reaches the open area where the displayed costume is being shown. Here, the sandpaper is at its smoothest, and when you exit the open area, the ballet bar will go back to normal. The design of the ballet bar is meant to show how her blindness and reliance on touch is lifted when she dances. In most museums, the pieces are displayed traditionally with the piece in the middle, and text explaining it on the side. In this exhibition, the visitor gets a better understanding of the project through an interactive display. The exhibition expands awareness into the community of the value of supporting this kind of effort and increases compassion for people with disabilities




Smoking Monster

Maddie Block and Tiandra Ray

Our hack is one that goes on top of a cigarette dispenser that without a top. We decided to make this since we noticed many people were smoking, and throwing their cigarettes on the sidewalk rather than disposing them. The goal was to do something benifiting both the enviroment and the smokers health. The top represents the face a of a monster with a speaker for an eye, and an open slot for the mouth. When someone is outside smoking and wants to dispose of their cigarrette, they can drop it in the monster's mouth. Inside the monster, there is a laser pointer that shines onto a mirror and onto a light sensor. Once the cigarette falls it brakes the beam, resulting in the monster making a coughing noise. The decision to have the monster cough was made so that we could portray the message that smoking is unhealthy. 

Eat Ugly Cambridge

Kenzie Morris

Kenzie:
Eat Ugly is a campaign modeled on the body positivity campaign. This campaign aims to reduce food waste by raising awareness of all the produce thrown away for aesthetic reasons: 50% before it reaches stores. Eat Ugly challenges the idea of normative standards of beauty for food and humans. The hope is to change the societal pattern of picking fruits based on aesthetics. Eat Ugly's main goal is to encourage people to recognize that "ugly" produce still tastes good. Eat Ugly Campaign targets consumers with stickers and posters because once companies know that people will buy "ugly" produce, companies will buy it from farmers and stop wasting this produce. 

During open innovation, Eat Ugly has developed a cart that visits farmers markets in the Boston area. This cart is an interactive way to reach the community and further our social campaign. There was a lot of positive feedback from locals in the cambridge area about Eat Ugly, so the goal is to expand and spread awareness to places around Boston.With its vibrant, recognizable logos and posters, Eat Ugly strives to inspire self-reflection in the food industry and in consumers, in the hope of changing people's habits and ideas, so that they learn to value taste and nutrition above appearance in food. The cart also gives out samples of ugly fruit so that consumers will realize that it tastes the same. The cart conveys ugly fruit and personifies it with a runway for ugly fruit to go on. The hope is that consumers will see the cart and engage and take photos. 

Dina:
Eat Ugly Cambridge tackles the enormous amount of perfectly tasty produce that is thrown away each year based on superficial abnormalities. The campaign engages locals through social media and appearances at farmers markets. The members of Eat Ugly take a booth to market that is specially designed to be brought on the subway. This booth consists of three wooden crates that are used for storage during transport and then stacked and tied together at the market. A detachable table-top is then fastened into place. A canvas tablecloth decorated with the campaign logo, the words “Eat Ugly” in a watercolor-inspired type, and friendly fruit and vegetables is laid on the table. Several items are set out to catch the market patrons’ eyes, including quarter-page flyers and Eat Ugly stickers. The main attraction is a runway designed for fruit, complete with LED “stage lights” and a glittering gold curtain. When people visit the booth, they are invited to take a picture of their ugly market-purchased produce on the runway and post it on social media using our hashtag. Additionally, customers can sample slices of fresh fruit. The hidden twist: the fruit they are tasting is ugly! The purpose of the setup is to introduce as many people as possible to the positive environmental impact of eating ugly.

Lauren:
A social campaign aimed to eliminate food waste by embracing produce of all shapes and sizes and eating misshapen produce.

Almost 50% of produce is thrown away before reaching the food markets because of blemishes or being misshapen. For example, two apples that have grown and morphed into one apple is considered an ugly fruit. Many distributors would discard it, believing that it would not sell. Consumers are less likely to buy a weird-looking carrot because they fear that it might be "defective" or rotten.

Eat Ugly Cambridge is a movement that hopes to dispel this misconception by targeting consumers through handing out stickers, posting fliers, and bringing an interactive and educational cart to the local farmers' markets throughout Boston. An important component of the cart is a fashion runway, similar to those in beauty pageants, that is designed to glorify and promote "produce body positivity". Consumers can place their ugly produce on the runway and take pictures of it as a proud shoutout to the beauty of ugly produce. Taste tests will be conducted to demonstrate that no matter the shape, all produce still taste the same. The public will be offered slices of ugly fruit to promote the fact that despite its grotesque appearance, it's still safe to consume and tastes good. This campaign hopes to impact society's view on ugly produce. By inspiring consumers to be more inclusive and less picky about the appearance of their produce, suppliers will no longer have to throw away pounds and pounds of tasty, nutritious produce.

Eat Ugly Cambridge

Kenzie Morris

Kenzie:
Eat Ugly is a campaign modeled on the body positivity campaign. This campaign aims to reduce food waste by raising awareness of all the produce thrown away for aesthetic reasons: 50% before it reaches stores. Eat Ugly challenges the idea of normative standards of beauty for food and humans. The hope is to change the societal pattern of picking fruits based on aesthetics. Eat Ugly's main goal is to encourage people to recognize that "ugly" produce still tastes good. Eat Ugly Campaign targets consumers with stickers and posters because once companies know that people will buy "ugly" produce, companies will buy it from farmers and stop wasting this produce. 

During open innovation, Eat Ugly has developed a cart that visits farmers markets in the Boston area. This cart is an interactive way to reach the community and further our social campaign. There was a lot of positive feedback from locals in the cambridge area about Eat Ugly, so the goal is to expand and spread awareness to places around Boston.With its vibrant, recognizable logos and posters, Eat Ugly strives to inspire self-reflection in the food industry and in consumers, in the hope of changing people's habits and ideas, so that they learn to value taste and nutrition above appearance in food. The cart also gives out samples of ugly fruit so that consumers will realize that it tastes the same. The cart conveys ugly fruit and personifies it with a runway for ugly fruit to go on. The hope is that consumers will see the cart and engage and take photos. 

Dina:
Eat Ugly Cambridge tackles the enormous amount of perfectly tasty produce that is thrown away each year based on superficial abnormalities. The campaign engages locals through social media and appearances at farmers markets. The members of Eat Ugly take a booth to market that is specially designed to be brought on the subway. This booth consists of three wooden crates that are used for storage during transport and then stacked and tied together at the market. A detachable table-top is then fastened into place. A canvas tablecloth decorated with the campaign logo, the words “Eat Ugly” in a watercolor-inspired type, and friendly fruit and vegetables is laid on the table. Several items are set out to catch the market patrons’ eyes, including quarter-page flyers and Eat Ugly stickers. The main attraction is a runway designed for fruit, complete with LED “stage lights” and a glittering gold curtain. When people visit the booth, they are invited to take a picture of their ugly market-purchased produce on the runway and post it on social media using our hashtag. Additionally, customers can sample slices of fresh fruit. The hidden twist: the fruit they are tasting is ugly! The purpose of the setup is to introduce as many people as possible to the positive environmental impact of eating ugly.

Lauren:
A social campaign aimed to eliminate food waste by embracing produce of all shapes and sizes and eating misshapen produce.

Almost 50% of produce is thrown away before reaching the food markets because of blemishes or being misshapen. For example, two apples that have grown and morphed into one apple is considered an ugly fruit. Many distributors would discard it, believing that it would not sell. Consumers are less likely to buy a weird-looking carrot because they fear that it might be "defective" or rotten.

Eat Ugly Cambridge is a movement that hopes to dispel this misconception by targeting consumers through handing out stickers, posting fliers, and bringing an interactive and educational cart to the local farmers' markets throughout Boston. An important component of the cart is a fashion runway, similar to those in beauty pageants, that is designed to glorify and promote "produce body positivity". Consumers can place their ugly produce on the runway and take pictures of it as a proud shoutout to the beauty of ugly produce. Taste tests will be conducted to demonstrate that no matter the shape, all produce still taste the same. The public will be offered slices of ugly fruit to promote the fact that despite its grotesque appearance, it's still safe to consume and tastes good. This campaign hopes to impact society's view on ugly produce. By inspiring consumers to be more inclusive and less picky about the appearance of their produce, suppliers will no longer have to throw away pounds and pounds of tasty, nutritious produce.

The Cocoon (Final Post Example)

Kate Reed and Tiandra Ray
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The Cocoon (Final Post Example)

Kate Reed and Tiandra Ray
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Presentation

Maddie Mullin

A device that lets two people support the body weight of someone who is disabled and unable to support themself, allowing him or her to dance freely and return to a sport they love.

Our project is a device made to help a women named Marina, who suffered a traumatic brain injury that resulted in a partial loss of motion on the left side of her body and the inability to dance. Dance brings a story to life, animates a feeling, and spreads cultural awareness, but most importantly it's an expression of creativity and self. Dance brings beauty to the world and everyone in it. The device we developed will allow Marina to return to the art of dance, an activity that she loves, with her siblings who will be there to support her physically and emotionally. Our project addresses the post injury issues of exercise and physical interaction. By helping her to dance, Marina will be able to spend time with her siblings doing something they all love. In order to make this device we used PVC pipe for the two poles that makeup the frame and between them is a metal "Lazy Susan" with a harness in the middle. This allows Marina to spin around without needing to worry about holding onto something or falling. The pieces that attach the "Lazy Susan" to the pipes were 3D printed as were the pieces that stop the "Lazy Susan" from sliding to far up and down the poles. Additionally, caps on the ends of the poles which hold strapping that attaches to the support harnesses is also 3D printed. 

Bullet Journaling

Dyani Robarge
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The bullet journal is a method for organizing thoughts and actions. They take the form of written text, often in a list format, accompanied with sketches or charts/diagrams that relate to the bullet journal content. Although bullet journals are a practical life organization tool, they allow for creative self-expression.

Read this bullet journal guide for more info

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Juxtapose

Teju Kim and Tiandra Ray
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A collection of three exhibitions showcasing wearables custom-designed for three individuals, in order to provide viewers with perspective as they become immersed in the personalities of people with disabilities.

This exhibition aims to improve accessibility for and inclusiveness of people with a range of disabilities by providing enabled people with perspective and understanding surrounding disability. The wearables exhibited were designed for three dancers, Krishna, who is blind, Tiffany, who has Jarcho-Levin Syndrome, and Jerron, who has cerebral palsy that affects the left side of his body. The exhibits for these wearables do not directly state their conditions, which gives each one a more mysterious, unique feel. Krishna's wearable is shield because she always wanted to shield and protect people, especially to help them feel comfortable when stepping outside of their comfort zone. Tiffany's is called the sunrise because she has a big, bright personality despite being very short because of her condition. Jerron's wearable is called the Spatial Expander because he always felt like he was put into a "box" by society because he is disabled. He wants to show people that he is capable of doing more than they think he can.