Exploring the current relationship between Hartford and Trinity College, the impact of CLI (Community Learning Initiative), and how we can engage Hartford residents.

1. Information
Architecture to Engage
Hartford Residents
PRESENTATION BY MICHAELLA KENDRICK
DIGITAL CITY/ AMST-409
DECEMBER 11, 2017

2. IA Goals
•Gain community interest
•Invite community members to
participate/get involved
•Show what Trinity students might
offer Hartford partners
•Partner-driven

3. Interviews
•Engage with your community: research local issues, become part of
a solution
•Overcome negative/false views of Hartford
•Public policy/psychology combination
Is Trinity bringing something to the community or actively
collaborating with the community?

4. Readings
People, Place and Space Readings
• ”Spatializing Culture”
• “Spatial Invasion”
• “The Social Becomes the Spatial, the Spatial Becomes the Social
Course Packet Readings
• “Street Rigor: Community Learning in the Liberal Arts”
• “Town-gown Relationships”
How is space defined between Trinity and Hartford? How do we construct space?
How could CLI change this?

5. “What is CLI?”
• Community members
may not know what
CLI is
• Frame it as a program
that encourages
collaboration between
students and Hartford
partners

6. “CLI Community”
• Student profiles: what research
are students doing? How are
students engaging with
Hartford partners?
• Seeing student engagement
will interest from community
members who may not have
realized the engagement
• Community partner profiles

7. “Get Involved!”
• Most crucial part of my
design: how can community
members get involved?
• Propose a partnership
• Find students interested in
doing research, interning,
or learning about their
programs/work
• Engage through events

8. “Blog”
• Students can write about their
experiences and post their
work on the blog
• Share an event
• Class updates
• Post interviews with professors
and students
• Help community members see
the engagement at Trinity and
outside of campus

9. “Past Partnerships”
• Organized by topic
• Community members might go
to the topic or industry they
work in
• Can see past engagement with
programs such as JDPP, etc.
• This is where we could archive
student projects, papers, syllabi
(although I did not include syllabi
because that would be more
interesting to faculty)

10. My Vision for the City-College
Relationship
•Collaboration
•Engagement, not ”dropping by”
•Partner-driven
•Engaging the community
•Examine where we connect with the community already and try to
expand those connections

11. Thank You!
Thank you to all interviewees:
Professor Anselmi
Mya Peters (Class of 2018)
Annabel Stanley (Class of 2018)
Thank you to my teammates and to Prof. Gieseking