Project Ideas Spring 2006

Possible projects for Spring 2006

Typography in the city: styles, contexts and origins of the visual landscape of written text in Seattle.
The spectacle of tourism (de)constructed: geographies and communication in Fremont.
Changing diversities and urban renewal: new neighbors, persistent memories and shifting equilibria in downtown Columbia City.
Disappearing trades and/or unique forms of commerce in the city: oral histories, tools and aesthetics.
Native American cultural identity and appropriation of Native images.
Murals in Seattle
Politics in the streets (graffiti, posters, flyers, signs, bumper stickers, body as billboard, protests, spectacle)
Buskers: Seattle's street artists and performers
Private/Public spaces
Skyscape
Car as a medium
The Wall: the Viaduct and Highway 99