{"id":33695,"date":"2019-04-12T10:53:36","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T14:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/mad-tech\/2019\/04\/12\/designing-for-social-awareness\/"},"modified":"2023-02-27T03:44:24","modified_gmt":"2023-02-27T08:44:24","slug":"designing-for-social-awareness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/mad-tech\/2019\/04\/12\/designing-for-social-awareness\/","title":{"rendered":"Designing for Social Awareness"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Darren<\/a><\/p>\n

Art + Design graduate<\/a> student Darren Woodland is pushing his creative skills into new territory as he works to bring light to the social issue of Native American land rights. Woodland is collaborating with Hannah Bauer, a research student at The University of South Carolina, to create an installation piece that explores the historical, cultural, and social implications of the shrinkings lands of the Catawba tribe in South Carolina.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you take land away and force people to move, it causes people to die. If you think about deforestation and endangered species, it is a very similar concept, except it\u2019s with people\u2026” \u2014Darren Woodland<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

By projecting images and animations onto a sculpture of a human figure that he is creating, Woodland hopes to demonstrate the way Native American land removal is a form of genocide. \u201cWhen you take land away and force people to move, it causes people to die. If you think about deforestation and endangered species, it is a very similar concept, except it\u2019s with people\u2026 In a very literal sense, removing land is removing people, which is a form of genocide, but it\u2019s also removing people from their roots, their culture, which causes an erasure throughout time of their practices and everything they took up in that actual physical space or geography,\u201d says Woodland.<\/p>\n

To demonstrate the effects of land removal, Woodland has created a sculpture of a Native American woman. \u201cWe decided to build a female sculpture because the matriarchal family structure is a prevalent aspect of the Catawba culture. We also thought it was important to give accounts of historical events through a woman\u2019s perspective, particularly with land rights issues, as they have a big impact on families and cultural history,\u201d Woodland says. Bauer is working on constructing a timeline of the major events in the Catawba history, and Woodland is designing an app that will allow users to scrub through the timeline, causing projection changes on the sculpture. As lands are removed from the tribe, body parts will be darkened on the sculpture.<\/p>\n

\"Darren<\/a>The project, which Woodland and Bauer have given the working title of \u201cProjection on Lands, Peoples, and Trauma,\u201d is a learning opportunity and stepping stone for Woodland\u2019s thesis, which will be focused on a different topic but use many of the skills he develops this semester. Before starting the project, Woodland had no experience with projection mapping and had never made a sculpture before. \u201cAt this point, I\u2019m learning a lot of new things and trying to grapple with new technology\u2026 later on, I will get back into animation and I\u2019ll actually be able to draw on some of the stuff that I already know,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

Ultimately, Woodland and Bauer hope the project will be a conversation starter, and ideally, the project would be installed in a museum. Woodland says that he would like for people \u201cto come and interact with [the project] and learn about the Catawba tribe and about Native American land rights and the larger issue.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Staci Kleinmaier is a professional writer and photographer in Apex, North Carolina. She uses words and images to tell stories. To see her work, visit\u00a0www.stacikleinmaier.com<\/u>.\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

This post was originally published<\/a> in College of Design Blog.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false,"raw":"\"Darren<\/a>\r\n\r\nArt + Design graduate<\/a> student Darren Woodland is pushing his creative skills into new territory as he works to bring light to the social issue of Native American land rights. Woodland is collaborating with Hannah Bauer, a research student at The University of South Carolina, to create an installation piece that explores the historical, cultural, and social implications of the shrinkings lands of the Catawba tribe in South Carolina.\r\n

\u201cWhen you take land away and force people to move, it causes people to die. If you think about deforestation and endangered species, it is a very similar concept, except it\u2019s with people\u2026\" \u2014Darren Woodland<\/blockquote>\r\nBy projecting images and animations onto a sculpture of a human figure that he is creating, Woodland hopes to demonstrate the way Native American land removal is a form of genocide. \u201cWhen you take land away and force people to move, it causes people to die. If you think about deforestation and endangered species, it is a very similar concept, except it\u2019s with people\u2026 In a very literal sense, removing land is removing people, which is a form of genocide, but it\u2019s also removing people from their roots, their culture, which causes an erasure throughout time of their practices and everything they took up in that actual physical space or geography,\u201d says Woodland.\r\n\r\nTo demonstrate the effects of land removal, Woodland has created a sculpture of a Native American woman. \u201cWe decided to build a female sculpture because the matriarchal family structure is a prevalent aspect of the Catawba culture. We also thought it was important to give accounts of historical events through a woman\u2019s perspective, particularly with land rights issues, as they have a big impact on families and cultural history,\u201d Woodland says. Bauer is working on constructing a timeline of the major events in the Catawba history, and Woodland is designing an app that will allow users to scrub through the timeline, causing projection changes on the sculpture. As lands are removed from the tribe, body parts will be darkened on the sculpture.\r\n\r\n\"Darren<\/a>The project, which Woodland and Bauer have given the working title of \u201cProjection on Lands, Peoples, and Trauma,\u201d is a learning opportunity and stepping stone for Woodland\u2019s thesis, which will be focused on a different topic but use many of the skills he develops this semester. Before starting the project, Woodland had no experience with projection mapping and had never made a sculpture before. \u201cAt this point, I\u2019m learning a lot of new things and trying to grapple with new technology\u2026 later on, I will get back into animation and I\u2019ll actually be able to draw on some of the stuff that I already know,\u201d he says.\r\n\r\nUltimately, Woodland and Bauer hope the project will be a conversation starter, and ideally, the project would be installed in a museum. Woodland says that he would like for people \u201cto come and interact with [the project] and learn about the Catawba tribe and about Native American land rights and the larger issue.\u201d\r\n\r\n
\r\n\r\nStaci Kleinmaier is a professional writer and photographer in Apex, North Carolina. She uses words and images to tell stories. To see her work, visit\u00a0www.stacikleinmaier.com<\/u>.\u00a0<\/em><\/span>"},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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