Include Project Description

For this project, the class drew words out of a box. With this word, our groups of four were instructed to come up with text 2D models to express the meaning of our word: Include. Twenty slides later, my group came up with several pleasant ideas. The second instruction was to create mini models out of cardboard, paper, or anything we could find. We were supposed to construct the letters in a way that express the definition, and then brainstorm places around the KU campus that would also be beneficial to it's context. Finally, once we all had made mini models and agreed on an idea and location for our letters, it was time for us to start building the final, big models to be placed and viewed around campus. There were lots of ideas and characteristics to consider before building. Our final idea was to create two boxes and cut out the letters from the boxes. The first box would say "inc" and the second box would say "ude" and the negative space in between the boxes, would create the "l" that goes in the middle. We chose the color to be red so it is bright, dominant, and stands out. We chose to make it very tall, that way it is very easy to see, attention-grabbing, and big enough for people to interact with it. People could take pictures and fit inside the letters. The letters original location was Wescoe Beach, where lots of the students come together and hang out. People gather and include themselves in the "beach," which made this location suitable for our word.

After the class viewed our letters in their Wescoe Beach location, we took them to 5 other locations and photographed them. One had a tree in the middle for the "l" and another had the "Jayhawk Boulevard" sign. These photos were to be contained in our own folded accordion-type book, along with other photos of the team and the construction process. In completing the project, we created a process book like the previous projects, where we document our "process" through the project with reflections and pictures.

-Rachel