The production

The purpose of the production is to build a virtual prototype for Historic Districts Council, which through physical and virtual interaction educates and involves a community in preserving their neighbourhood.

The HDC will chose one specific New York neighbourhood, which will act as base for the prototype. The Cultural Production and New Media Design students will provide suggestions concerning the production of the virtual platform.

To raise awareness and interest in the virtual preservation platform, we need to involve the community – not just as end-users, but as participants in the production process.

To create a valuable and useful platform we need to locate specific areas of tangible/intangible culture (language/slang, fashion, meeting places, etc), which are representative for the essence of the community; and from that derive general assumptions on the neighbourhood culture as a whole.

To map everything is impossible, and unnecessary – in mapping and documentation it is crucial to be selective in order to be significant. The HDC’s knowledge and competences are tremendously important in this.