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The Buildings-Landscapes-Cultures Field School (limited version) What: The Buildings-Landscapes-Cultures (BLC) Field School trains participants in documenting, indexing, analyzing, and disseminating community cultural resources and histories of ordinary people and common places. The project team works with local community partners in a collaborative setting. Where: Walnut Hill Community Garden and Art Lives Here Lot, Walnut Hill Neighborhood, Milwaukee, WI When: Weekdays, July 7, 2025—August 1, 2023; 9AM-4PM (required attendance) + Required preparatory workshop via Zoom: Monday June 30, 2025, from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM. The 2025 project will be a shortened and limited version of our full-length field school. Project Objectives The Buildings-Landscapes-Cultures Field School is a nationally recognized award-winning project that combines place-based immersive learning with civic engagement. The focus of the 2025 Field School is to write a ground-up history of the Walnut Hill Community Garden community, that reflects the lived realities of the residents of this marginalized and segregated area. Using methods such as material culture and architectural documentation, history harvests, short and long form oral histories, community led walks, asset mapping, and spatial ethnography, we will document the geography, layout, and stories of everyday life. We will explore how residents remember, preserve, and pass down stories of place, environment, and ecology to the next generation and examine how researchers and scholars may be able to collaborate with local communities to archive and preserve these forms of knowledge. The Field School welcomes the participation of members of the community, and it is open to anyone who is interested and can make a full-time commitment (Mon-Fri 9am-4pm) for four weeks. Students may receive academic credit in the form of an Internship UG (URB STD 489, 3-credits), Urban Internship (URB STD 927, 3-credits), or other internship opportunities available to them. If you don't need college credits, then you may join the field school for FREE as a community participant. Scholarships and Funds Students participating in field schools or other training opportunities may apply for stipends of up to $800 to attend such programs. Here is the website: https://vafweb.org/Ridout-Fellowship. Urban Studies students may apply for an USP grant What we will do This summer we will collaborate with community residents to write a history of their neighborhood. The 2025 field school continues our previous engagement with this community to document a rich history of civic resistance against environmental injustice. In Summer 2025 we will conduct oral history interviews to discover untold memories of this neighborhood and rich family histories of its long-term residents. We will visit local archives, organize history harvests, conduct community led walks, and create asset maps. We will learn how to read the city from bottom-up and disseminate this information back to the residents. Detailed Schedule Preparatory virtual workshop: Monday June 30, 2025, from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM. Week 1; July 7-11: Understanding Place. Week 2; July 14-18: Oral History and ethnographic data collection. Week 3; July 21-25: Archives and analysis. Week 4: July 28-August 1: Dissemination. August 2, 2023: Final event at Amaranth Cafe Tasks and commitments: Participants will have to commit to attend the field school in person and participate in data collection, analysis, documentation, and final presentation daily, M-F, 9-4 with no exceptions. If we have to attend a community event on a weekend, we will adjust attendance time accordingly. During the 5-week period, we will examine the following: Current thinking on concepts such as “black ecologies” and “radical care.”
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