Ryan Schroeder During the Q&A session, two major points stood out to me. The first was that the Seneca Village project relied on community engagement to actually be successful. By including outside people in the project, the team was able to identify some artifacts they would not have [...]
Ymorah Blakeney For recipe day I decided to make whipped cream, or, rather, “whipt cream,” as it was written in the cookbook. The recipe was quite simple and I had most of the ingredients required. I poured heavy cream, sugar, and vanilla extract in a bowl and used [...]
Tahsin Tawhid Ama started with an exercise where we explained the story of our name. We then wrote some words we found interesting in a book near us, and we also described a soft object and a rough object. We read Letter Home by Natasha Trethewey and Letter [...]
Khushboo Shah The outside of the Merchant’s House is very visually appealing and made of expensive materials, suggesting that it must have been owned by someone wealthy. The home’s architectural style, Neoclassicism, was the newest style at the time of its building and refers to ancient Greece and [...]
Arpita Dhar During this workshop, we brought in ordinary objects from our home. These objects are ordinary because they are common and don’t really hold a special meaning to most people. These objects can easily be replaced by going to the supermarket and buying a new one. Special [...]
Katelyn Kim When listening to Jessica Maclean’s lecture, I was really fascinated by how much information you can get just based on the material and design of an object. It seems like a simple question to ask, “What is it made of?” but this information may not be [...]
Sajida Ahmed On the right, I have illustrated my assigned object from Seneca Village which is made out of slate, a type of rock. I figured that using a pencil would allow me to capture the matte finish of the object. Additionally, I decided to preserve the plain [...]