Sunday, November 13, 2011
HAC PART 1
The purpose of the part 1 of the HAC the slave Galleries Restoration Project is to help restore and interpret the slave galleries as a catalyst for dialogue within the community. I think its successful because experienced community leaders engage people within the community about the galleries and other issues. The Galleries stand as a physical reminder how and why boundaries of marginalization are drawn and contested. The Galleries have also been showed to have the power to get people attention on issues from new perspectives in which ways I think is also successful. The galleries have become a space of reflection and where people can become emotionally driven by issues that relate to them.
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I agree with you that it is due in large part to community leaders engaging people that the space can be effective in facilitating discussion. It seems like the project put a lot of emphasis on the community leaders because of all the dialogue training they included. I would have liked more examples of how the community leaders took this training to their respective communities, but I guess that wasn't the focus of the article.
ReplyDeleteI liked how you phrased "the galleries have become a space of reflection". I think that is a could description of the space because The Salve Galleries Restoration Project is supposed to cause individuals to stop and think, and then generate discussion.
The only thing I would have liked to see you expand on more was how the gallery causes people to "form new perspectives". Does the space really change people's perspectives or just cause them to remember their own history? I don't think the article really gave much evidence either way, so it's up to readers interpretations.
I think that what you wrote is filled with very good ideas, however, I would have liked a bit more detail and more information on how you believe the galleries function in these ways. You gave essentially an outline of ideas, but without the substance to fill them and convince the reader of the fact.
ReplyDeleteI agree that the space is meant to help people feel emotional, and I think that you worded that well, but it is important to go into how those emotions are stimulated.
Did the catalyst for dialogue work? Which parts do you think worked, which didn't? How did this relate to the very diverse Lower East Side?
Overall I think you had very good ideas from which to work, but some more depth would have helped the argument come together.