“I’m uncomfortable with any culture that encourages you take on an entire identity…I call bullshit on the stigma and the culture and values behind it that rewards making above everything else.” Chachra, Debbie. “Why I Am Not a Maker.” The… Continue Reading
The Virtual Angkor project is a virtual rendering of the ancient Khmer city of Ankor created by Monash University’s SensiLab collaborating with archaeologists, historians and virtual history specialists from around the globe. Intended to be an educational tool for history… Continue Reading
The Georgetown Slavery Archive is a project that was created in 2016 to address the connection between Maryland Jesuits, Georgetown University, and slavery. This was created in relation to Georgetown University’s Slavery, Memory, and Reconciliation initiative. This site uses different… Continue Reading
About the Project The Rhythm of Food is a collaborative project between Google News Lab and Truth & Beauty. Google search patterns – organized and statistically processed through weekly Google Trends – were collected over 15 years were used to… Continue Reading
Quotation: “Almost all the artifacts that we value as a society were made by the order of men.” Debbie Chachra, “Why I Am Not a Maker,” The Atlantic, January 23, 2015. This quote resonated with me because I could see quite… Continue Reading
Process Starting off, I was very lost and got quickly frustrated because of some glitches my browser had. After fixing the issue (I was zoomed out extremely far but the axises appeared really close, which caused a lot of errors… Continue Reading
In doing the work of creating and utilizing digital tools for better digital humanities projects, shouldn’t we also be engaging the humanities themselves? Moya Z. Bailey, “All the Digital Humanists Are White, All the Nerds Are Men, but Some of… Continue Reading
I’m uncomfortable with any culture that encourages you take on an entire identity, rather than to express a facet of your own identity (“maker,” rather than “someone who makes things”). Debbie Chachra, “Why I Am Not a Maker,” The Atlantic,… Continue Reading
This was my second time using SketchUp. The first time I used the tool I was a middle schooler with few digital skills and so I remember the program being a lot more difficult to navigate than it actually was. … Continue Reading
Pictures Reflection My childhood house is a brownstone in New York City. The general shape is very simply a rectangular prism. Once I got the basic shape of the house represented, that is when I started encountering more trouble. I… Continue Reading
