The document provides questions for students to debrief their walking tour of Liberty Park. It asks them to summarize what they did on the tour and what they discovered about the park. It also asks them to reflect on what they learned about researching and writing about place from the experience. Finally, it prompts them to consider how the insights from the tour and narrative could inform early project ideas.

1. Write out your answers to the following debriefing
questions (10 minutes):
• What? What did you do on your walking tour, and what did
you discover about Liberty Park from the tour?
• So what? What did you learn about place and the process of
researching and writing about place from your discoveries?
• Now what? How might you use your insights from the
walking tour and narrative to inform your early project
ideas?
Walking tour debrief

2. MORE ON INVENTION:
What inquiries and projects are
worth pursuing?

3. • We need to look at which sites are worth pursuing in civic
contexts (areas/locations/people)
• We need to look at what concepts of place are worth
pursuing in the sites and in SLC generally (angles)
• We need to look at how to manage our study of sites and
concepts (scale/scope)
Inventing a project idea

4. Q1: What specific area/site would be interesting
to write about for a critical audience of engaged
citizens?

5. • “Noticed a revitalization project . . . [which] made us think about the
relationship between revitalization and the larger sociocultural phenomenon of gentrification”
• “Marmalade is known as SLC‟s „gayborhood,‟ but we were left
wondering about the future of this status, as we discovered that the
Utah Pride Center was one of the organizations that recently left the
area.”
• How do the contradictions between old and new in Marmalade
generate a sense of this place for current residents of the
neighborhood or of the greater SLC area?
• What would a historical investigation of the Marmalade district
reveal about the evolution it has undergone and how change has
affected who resides in, moves through, or “owns” the
neighborhood?
Q2: What concepts of place have we identified and
which are worth pursuing in SLC?

6. Q3: How far and wide should the project reach?
Should it cover a lot of ground or a single building?
Should it be far-reaching in terms of audience and
geographical location or not?

7. Group Activity (10-15 min):
• In your groups from last week, use your walking
tour narrative to imagine a tangible project idea that
you could research this semester. Answer the three
invention questions we just discussed to guide your
idea.

8. The Project Pitch
• http://sharktankclips.com/season-2-episode-8citikitty/
• Review assignment sheet