Researched, written, and designed by Zack Felder with contributions from Turner Brooks, Claudia Carle, Lazo Gitchos, Aaron Helfand, and Elihu Rubin, the 2nd Issue of the New Haven Building Newsprint addresses the “Frankenstein Building,” most houses that have been augemented and adapted over time to reflect changing urban conditions.
Elihu shared YUMP projecs + website with a group of scholars, students, and pracitioners of Public Humanities at the Northeastern Public Humanities Spring Symposium 2024 held at Yale University.
Join us in the Community Room of the New Haven Free Public Library, Ives Main Branch, for the LAUNCH of the New Haven Building Newsprint (NHBN), an occasional free newspaper published by the Yale Urban Media Project that covers the City’s historical and evolving built environment. Writer and designer Zach Felder will discuss Issues No. 1, “The 5-over-1,” and No.
A webinar discussion of “The Practice of Democracy: A View from Connecticut.”
The event was a lot of fun! Stay tuned for link to Zoom recording.
“On the Collective Memory Map, anyone with a pen could claim authority in defining the unlabeled streets of the city. the resulting diagram revealed the places in New Haven that are especially meaningfuly to each participant, from Popeye’s on Whalley to the old English Station power plant building to the ‘Yale Business School.’”
Read Mia Cortés Castro’s article in the Yale Daily News about the Democracy in America webinar (co-sponsored by Public Humanities at Yale and the New Haven Free Public Library), “Spaces for Democracy: The Goffe Street Armory as Civic Infrastructure.”
Yale School of Architecture students in Arch 4219, Urban Research & Representation, create 9 research-based and participatory exhibits for a public in the Community Room of the Ives Main Branch of the New Haven Free Public Library, 133 Elm Street; plus a shared exhibit, the Collective Memory Map. Participants get a stamp at each station and fill out the Passport.
Read the write-up in the New Haven Independent here:
Research partners include the New Haven Musuem, the New Haven Free Public Library, and Sterling Memorial Library.
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Matthew Frye Jacobon is Sterling Professor of American Studies, History, and African American Studies at Yale. He is the author of seven books on race, politics, and culture in the United States, including Odetta’s One Grain of Sand ;
