Students Imagine Urban Futures and Possibilities with Handmade Books

Thinking Critically About the Relationship Between Form and Content

Beginning in fall term 2022, Erin Collins, Assistant Professor of Geography, partnered with Sarah Marcella Parella, Dartmouth Libraries Book Arts Workshop Program Manager, for Collins’ class GEOG 25: Social Justice and the City. Collins wanted to add a hands-on, interactive, and creative learning element to the students’ experience. This first collaboration was a single class session in the Book Arts Workshop. Based on their readings, students created and decorated paper houses and buildings about Oakland, California neighborhoods. What resulted from the students’ brief hands-on engagement inspired Collins and Parella to expand the project.

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