2005. Installation, website, brochure, trading cards.
Collaboration with Maggie, Sarah, Katie and Stephen in conjunction with the LGBT Resource Center.
Trading Card - "G"
2005. Brochure.
“Comfortable Space” was a collaborative research project with three undergraduate students, one graduate student (me) and the LGBT Resource Center at Syracuse University. The project was facilitated through the Boundaries in Syracuse course taught by Lori Brown & Alison Mountz. The main focus of the research was on how the university LGBT community defines comfortable space.
There were two large outcomes of this project. First there was a close examination of hetero-normative spaces on campus, particularly bathrooms. A number of students are not perceived as belonging to the gender dichotomy of male and female, therefore a directory of single stall bathrooms, along with specific details about safety and the current labeling of the bathrooms was compiled. That compilation is available as a webpage off of the SU LGBT Resource Center website and as a printed brochure.The project also included installation at Company Gallery that looks at comfortable and uncomfortable space through physical space, video, audio and maps.
A set of 6 “trading cards” that point out hetero-normative space and the many locations and spatial situations heterosexuals take for granted. These cards are used as a way to initiate the conversation outside of the installation, or as a continuation of the installation.
Students continue to lobby for gender-neutral spaces. A 2009 report in the Daily Orange indicates that the University plans to build at least one gender-neutral single-stall bathroom in each building.
Comfortable Spaces
2005. Installation, website, brochure, trading cards.
Collaboration with Maggie, Sarah, Katie and Stephen in conjunction with the LGBT Resource Center.
Trading Card - "G"
2005. Brochure.
“Comfortable Space” was a collaborative research project with three undergraduate students, one graduate student (me) and the LGBT Resource Center at Syracuse University. The project was facilitated through the Boundaries in Syracuse course taught by Lori Brown & Alison Mountz. The main focus of the research was on how the university LGBT community defines comfortable space.
There were two large outcomes of this project. First there was a close examination of hetero-normative spaces on campus, particularly bathrooms. A number of students are not perceived as belonging to the gender dichotomy of male and female, therefore a directory of single stall bathrooms, along with specific details about safety and the current labeling of the bathrooms was compiled. That compilation is available as a webpage off of the SU LGBT Resource Center website and as a printed brochure.The project also included installation at Company Gallery that looks at comfortable and uncomfortable space through physical space, video, audio and maps.
A set of 6 “trading cards” that point out hetero-normative space and the many locations and spatial situations heterosexuals take for granted. These cards are used as a way to initiate the conversation outside of the installation, or as a continuation of the installation.
Stalled Decisions article about the project in the Daily Orange
Students continue to lobby for gender-neutral spaces. A 2009 report in the Daily Orange indicates that the University plans to build at least one gender-neutral single-stall bathroom in each building.