This is a small, open-media project on documenting and writing about a monument, a memorial or site of memory in Providence RI. You are expected to write about and visually document a specific place or monument in the city- highlighting the particular memories, stories, imaginations attached to those places or monuments. Your case study can range from small commemorative plaques on street corners, odd industrial ruins lying around in town, major historic monuments, tombs, statues or some imaginary place about which there are public rumors and urban legends. The use of all kinds of media are encouraged but you should be able to post it digitally here on the wiki. Photographs, videos, drawings, sketches are encouraged along with a text, creatively put together. The written component of the project should be around 1000 words. (3-4 pages- double spaced).
Suggested case studies:
- First Baptist Church
- Armenian monument in North Main Cemetery
- The Tunnel that runs underneath Brown
- Abandoned railroad lift bridge on the Seekonk River (Fox Point-Crook Point)
- Armenian monument on Douglas Avenue
- Rocky Point Amusement Park, Warwick RI.
- Rhode Island's Brownfields
Suggested Readings and resources:
- Nora, Pierre; 1989. “Between memory and history: Les lieux de memoire,” Representations 26: 7-24.
- Classical Providence: landscapes, monuments, rediscovery
Due: Thursday February 19, 2009, 5 pm.
Projects
India Point Park by Sarah Baker
Molly Cousins' Project - Prospect Terrace Park and the Williams Root
The Network Arch Bridge by Ariel Schecter
Fleur-de-Lys Studio: A Site of Memory, Art and Literature in Providence, RI by Cassie Rogg
Mark Stokely's Project: The Providence Athenaeum
Bradley Hanson's Project: Remembering Providence's Hurricanes
Erin Calfee's Project: 2nd Floor Rock Women's Restrooms, 1990
Hannah Sheldon-Dean's Project: The Manchester Street Generating Station
Harry Aspinwall's Project: The Gano Street Bridge
Tim Simonds: The Stephen Hopkins House
Lupo's Heartbreak Hotel: A Mobile Monument, by Alex Yuly
Ana Escobedo: Latrinalia
Harrison Stark: The Providence River Basin
Emily Alvarez: 
Roger Williams.doc
Madeleine Filloux: A Memorial to Young Womanhood
Aleksandra Mackiewicz Masonic Temple
Gillian LangArch and Mem Gillian Lang Assignment #1.rtf
The Woman Who Lives Downtown by Marissa Faerber
Maya Porath: History is Not Inscribed in Stone (Roger Williams was Here)
Kit Elsworth - Providence's Commercial Graffiti
Elise Nuding: Rhode Island Hall: Architecture and Memory
Tess's Project: Tunnel Installation
Lyndsey Barnes: 48 College Street, The Classics Department
Daria Solomon: The Rhode Island Afro-American Heritage Trail
Alex H. first baptist church.doc
