Print Team | Web Team | Exhibition/Design Team

Web design team: This team will take on the online component of the Identity Blueprint program. This will entail collaborating with Gallery Aferro for a co-redesign of the existing Identity Blueprint blog and/or selected class Tumblr. Additionally, this team will drive much of documentation of the Identity Blueprint program and establish a system for updates and blogging that they will initiate but that will be maintained by Gallery Aferro and the participants of IB. This will entail deciding with the IB participants what is needed and should be documented and how (i.e. interviews, videos, photos). The team should consider how to represent the program as a whole online, including representation of the Identity Blueprint participants, their work and the themes and tools used during the program.

Print design team: This team will be responsible for all printed matter and collateral for the Identity Blueprint program, including the continuation of the artist handout project and creation of a technical skills-based handout. This group will also work with Gallery Aferro and the participants in IB to co-design the exhibition catalogue, which can include Parsons student and IB participant drawings, quotes, journal entries, as well as representation of the program curriculum/tools/hand-outs and, of course the IB projects to be exhibited. This group will be working to collect the aforementioned ephemera and will work closely with the young IB participants to develop artist statements/manifestos.

Workshop/exhibition design team: This team will begin by collaboratively designing and assisting with the facilitation of two Identity Blueprint sessions. Group members will develop orientation exercises for IB Day 1, and then design the lesson plan and run the activities for Day 2's Portrait-making session (with the support of the whole Lab--via their direction). This team will then shift gears, and co-design and install the program's exhibition with Gallery Aferro and the IB young participants. This design will include the materials created by the other two teams, showcase the work created and the process by which the program participants learned and developed their projects. This team will consider wall hangings, wall labels and text and the overall look and feel of the exhibition and lead the install.