library display: a collaborative story

Library Display: a Collaborative

Story

Library Display: a Collaborative

Story write womenAugust-December 2010prominent women writers who have influencedthe design professions in the following areas:• feminist space• historical criticism• urban design• environmental impact

Library Display: a Collaborative

Story write womenAugust-December 2010prominent women writers who have influencedthe design professions in the following areas:• feminist space• historical criticism• urban design• environmental impact

Library Display: a Collaborative

Story write womenAugust-December 2010prominent women writers who have influencedthe design professions in the following areas:• feminist space• historical criticism• urban design• environmental impact

process

window case - exterior window case - interior

display areas in our library

plinths & wall flat cases & wall

display areas in our library

• add water• lecture literature

typical display

• add water• quick assemblage• mostly visual• few months• unannounced

• lecture literature

typical display

• add water• quick assemblage• mostly visual• few months• unannounced

• lecture literature• books & journals

on invited lecturer• 7 – 10 days• announced to

SALA faculty & students

typical display

department work plan

individual work plans

genesis

department work plan• engage Arch &

LArch departments

• collaborative diversity project

individual work plans

genesis

department work plan• engage Arch &

LArch departments• collaborative

diversity project

individual work plans• in depth display• part time staff

asking for creative tasks

genesis

• selecting theme • influential women writers

• initial research & list• full time staff• 10 authors

• polling faculty & staff• 46 authors from 12

faculty • paring list down

• full time staff• 21 authors• 4 categories

• feminist space• historical criticism• urban design• environmental impact

process

• research & writing content• full time & level 3• brief biography• historical impact• featured writings

• editing & tweaking• full time staff

• creating & assembling • full time, level 3 & level 2• one illustrated panel per

author• supporting images• digital picture frame• signage, captions, etc• assembled featured

writings

process

• publicity• PRaM – brochure &

Interview• Collegian, Nov. 9th 2010

• timeline• started research in Feb

2010• opened in Aug 2010• closed end of Dec 2010

process

lessons learned

• a lot of work• start early with a realistic

timeline• communication &

deadlines• tough to make text heavy

display visually interesting

• proof read, proof reed, prooffread, proofread

• publicity helps

the upside

• good response from SALA faculty

• staff pushed their envelope• well received by library

patrons• high "annual report" value• will archive in the CMS

feminist space

Catharine Beecher (1800-1878)• The American Woman’s Home Jane Addams (1860-1935)• Twenty Years at Hull-House• The Second Twenty Years at Hull-

House

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935)• The Home: Its Work and Influence • Utopian Novels: Moving the

Mountain, Herland, With Her in Ourland

Beatriz Colomina• Domesticity at War • The Split Wall: Domestic Voyeurism

in Sexuality and Space

historical criticism

Louisa C. Tuthill (1799-1879)• History of Architecture from the

Earliest Times Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer (1851-1934)• Accents as Well as Broad Effects:

Writings on Architecture, Landscape, and the Environment

• Henry Hobson Richardson and His Works

Mary McCarthy (1912-1989)• The Stones of Florence • Venice Observed Ada Louise Huxtable (1921- )• Goodbye History, Hello Hamburger • Kicked a Building Lately?

Dana Cuff (1953- )• Architecture: The Story of Practice

urban designTheodora Kimball Hubbard (1887-1935)• Our Cities To-day and To-morrow

Catherine Bauer Wurster (1905-1964)• Modern Housing

Jane Jacobs (1918-2006)• The Death and Life of Great American Cities

Denise Scott Brown (1931- )• Learning from Las Vegas

Dolores Hayden (1950- )• Power of Place: Urban Landscape as Public

History

Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk (1950- )• Towns and Town-making Principles Setha Low• On the Plaza

environmental impact

May Thielgaard Watts (1893-1975)• Reading the Landscape of America

Rachel Carson (1907-1964)• Silent Spring • The Sea Around Us Anne Whiston Spirn• The Granite Garden: Urban Nature

and Human Design • The Language of Landscape

Elizabeth Meyer• “The Expanded Field of Landscape

Architecture” • "Post-Earth Day Conundrum:

Translating Environmental Values into Landscape Design”

write women – further readingBerkeley, Ellen Perry, ed. Architecture : A Place for Women. Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989. Cole, Doris. From Tipi to Skyscraper : A History of Women in Architecture. Boston: i press; distributed by G. Braziller, New York, 1973. Favro, Diane. "Women Write: The Shaping of American Architecture by Female Authors." Architecture California v.18, n.2 (1996-1997): 40-51. Norwood, Vera. Made From This Earth: American Women and Nature. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993. Oldershaw, Barbara. "Developing a Feminist Critique of Architecture." Design Book Review n.25 (1992): 7-15.

Sherman, Claire Richter, ed. Women as Interpreters of the Visual Arts. 1820-1979 Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1981. Torre, Susana, ed. Women in American Architecture: A Historic and Contemporary Perspective. New York: Whitney Library of Design, 1977. Van Slyck, Abigail A. "Women in Architecture and the Problem of Biography." Design Book Review n.25 (1992): 19-22. Wright, Gwendolyn. “On the Fringe of the Profession: Women in American Architecture.” In The Architect: Chapters in the History of the Profession, edited by Spiro Kostoff, 208-308. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.