Exploration and familiarization of Pittsburgh leading to researching the tensions around the newly Gentrified East Liberty Area.
Project was built using Google’s Map API.
Conducted Interviews to learn about Pittsburgh, these led to focus on East Liberty and focus on individuals who were trying to preserve their community dispite gentrification and dispersement of peers to other ‘affordable housing units’. Open-ended interviews allowed interviewees to set the topic of the interview. Distilled interviews into clips and placed them on a google map.
Initially, it was super difficult to get people to talk to me. I would go up to people and they would talk to me, but not allow me to record them. Sometimes when the subject of gentrification came up people just shut down and told me they had to go. Because of this, my initial set of interviewees were Carnegie Mellon University affiliated. When I embedded myself in the community by going to Larimer community meetings people were more willing to talk to me.
It was interesting in the different points of views people associated with CMU had versus those who were trying to ‘reinvigorate’ their community.
Lede– was meant as an intervention for the community so a person’s voice could be heard as it is hard for individual voices to have visibility.
Lede allows one to talk about changes in the community in proximity and space. Conversations become physical.
Bringing physicalized conversations to the digital realm, conversations are archives and one could objectively observe how conversations and attitudes change over time.
Used Google Maps to talk.
Created in Javascript and Google Maps API