Urban Humanities Initiative

This week’s must read - City analog: scavenging sonic archives and urban pedagogy in the Review of Communication Vol 20(4): (Re)Sounding Pedagogies; authored by UHI Alums Jacqueline Jean Barrios and Kenny Wong (Tokyo ‘17 and Alumni Salon organizers). Learn more at the link in bio! Pictured: Community annotations feathering a thick map with Post-it notes relate remembered city sounds upon students’ scavenged archive and data on damages in the 1992 civil unrest. Abstract: In ...this essay, we describe a pedagogy for teaching and studying literature and cities through the embodiment of an urban sound scavenger. Extending Walter Benjamin’s figure of the ragpicker to poetically assemble disparate urban imaginaries, we explore how two linked teaching projects set in Los Angeles, CA, demonstrate listening bodies coconstituting both literary texts and urban environments. Credit: Jacqueline Jean Barrios & Kenny H. Wong (2020) City analog: scavenging sonic archives and urban pedagogy Hashtags: #urbanhumanitiesucla #ucla #colab #citylab #losangeles #LA #urbanism #urbanstudies #urbanplanning #environmentaldesign #humanities #design #plan #spatialjustice #socialjustice #cities #thickmapping #mapping #placemaking #city #analog #scavenging #sonic #archives #urban #pedagogy @ Los Angeles, California

This LA weather has us dreaming of summer - and reflecting back on the wide range of summer research projects produced by the UHI 2019-20 cohort. eCodex: Los Angeles Trans-Culturation : Prompted by a call to create a dynamic, digital eCodex, inspired and informed by ancient and contemporary Mesoamerican codices, this project represents a phenomenological approach to the aspects of spatial translation, space-making and the construction of identity, via corporeal-temporal...-spatial orientation. The resulting product is entitled eCodex: Los Angeles Trans-Culturation. It is a body of work composed of symbols and stories that reflect the performative placemaking that defines the immigrant and indigenous diaspora as it manifests in Los Angeles’s Westlake / MacArthur Park neighborhood. Team Members: Cassie Hoeprich, Akana Jayewardene, Tiffany Orozco, Lili Raygoza . . . #urbanhumanitiesucla #ucla #colab #citylab #losangeles #LA #urbanism #urbanstudies #urbanplanning #environmentaldesign #humanities #design #plan #spatialjustice #socialjustice #cities #thickmapping #mapping #placemaking #mesoamerican #spatial #spacemaking #identity #symbols #stories #westlake #macarthurpark #macarthurparklake