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Thursday, June 2, 2011
Project 4
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
First part
We choose the library which is public place space on campus. Alden Library was constructed between 1966 and 1969. The designer is the 15th president of Ohio University, Vernon R. Alden, who served as president from 1962 until 1969. He planed this place as public place for all the readers. Vernon R. Alden Library serves the Athens campus as the central library facility; the building can seat 3,000 readers. The mainly usage for the library is to provide the place which people can read, study, and find research in. The Ohio University libraries' collections contain over two million printed volumes, 2.3 million units of microfilm material, and 13,500 current periodical subscriptions. Electronic resources of the Libraries include ALICE, the libraries online catalog; OhioLINK, a statewide library and information network; and a wide variety of networked databases in many subject disciplines. These are accessible from within the Alden Library and many are linked to the Library Home Page and other campus networks. Special collections within Alden Library are the Fine Arts Library, the Health Sciences Library, the University Archives and Special Collections, a Map Collection, and the Southeast Asia Collection. Instructional Media & Technology Services supports instructional technology across the Athens campus and houses video and other multimedia collections. Alden Library is open to the public, as well as to students, faculty, and staff, seven days a week during the academic year. Alden Library also houses the Learning Commons (on the second floor) and the Academic Advancement Center, which offers study skills instruction, tutoring programs, and a computer lab.
Thursday, May 26, 2011
Some Public Spaces on Campus
Friday, May 13, 2011
The Message of Home
Our campaign is about the depictions of home are in reaction to what we see around us in this quaint college town. As we began to construct ten aspects of home we realized that the way the home was presented metaphorically was also they way it manifested in the “artifacts” which we separated into functions of the households and appearance of the household.
Certain objects around the house are symbolic of what they represent about our ideals. Starting with the outside, the fence symbolizes security and also distinguishes our space from your space. The landscaping of the yard is a reflection of personal taste and the amount of work you are willing to put into it. Your neighbors can build perceptions about what you are like based on your property management. The porch is an area where the transition from private to public occurs, from this point and beyond we choose what to display. The fireplace is the nucleus of the house; it’s where the family gathers to be together to do nothing. The room it’s located in has no affiliation with a particular family member and it contains photographs and other relics of the family that inhabits the house. These main artifacts are your expressions of yourself or your family and customize these areas to how you see yourself.
The other aspects of the house have more to do with the idea of home and what it means in mainstream America. Social events like barbeques, birthday parties, and athletic events give the host house a chance to showcase their ideals through their physical house. Holidays are competitions between neighbors, they’re filled with traditions that unify people celebrating, but also separate people based on their economic capacity to compete in the festivities. Consumption is an important aspect of the mainstream home, the home today is wired to media more than ever before which means that the family unit is constantly racing to carve out a spot for itself among all of the stimuli being targeted at it. Home décor, car make, and your family pet are examples of the charm bracelet that’s home. Others judge you based on how well you fit this mold.
Maria Jose Alvarez-Rivadulla talks about how people in gated communities said decided to move for reasons of safety, but in reality this excuse was a “modifier”, for them truly wanting to “maintain and improve cultural, economic, and social capital”. They people who she interviewed talked about how they wanted to provide their children with the access to things they (supposedly) had or things that they deemed as utopian. We came to the conclusion that the conformity offered by artifacts of the physical house is what holds the model of the nuclear family together. Our add campaign is about how two separate variations of American mainstream home exist side by side. The classic houses on Elmwood which fit our American model not far from the college shanty towns which completely alter it- the images of couches on porches, fires in the front yard surrounded by people you probably don’t know, bikes instead of cars, and the police as your security. Despite these differences both houses represent a family. Our commercial aims to create an understanding of separate needs and cooperation between the nuclear families and the college students because both are needed to form a worthy community. A college student’s utopia may not be a nuclear family’s utopia both sides have to respect each other.
Thursday, May 12, 2011
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
commercial trial 1
project update
Hopefully i will post it by later tonight. I have most of it figured out but i need a closing campaign line.... some thing like "respect yo town!" or "keep athens beautiful" but more creative. haha any suggestions are more than welcome bc those examples are SUPA lame.
Athens as a HOME
When considering the ideal of homes within mainstream America, Athens exemplifies many categories and also many meanings attached to these living accommodations. Due to the diversity of age, class, race, and education levels many types of housing can be found within this small town. There are dormitories, apartment buildings, apartment housing, college housing, residential homes, halfway homes, trailer parks, etc. All of these buildings serve as places with meaningful attachments to the individuals who live within them. One significant difference that seems to define to amount meaning one attaches to their home depends on the permanence of these living conditions.
The town of Athens serves as a home for many people. About half of the residents think of Athens as a somewhat permanent setting where they live, work and possibly even raise a family. The other half of the population are college students who live here temporarily. The four years that the average student spends in Athens in a much shorter amount of time, and often is broken up by trips back to their original towns. Many students show little regard for their homes in Athens. It is a beautiful town with many things to offer, however the abundance of trash, graffiti, and hazardous living conditions are evidence that some of the temporary residents feel a lack of responsibility to the community.