interesting site with basic info

heres a site i found that has basic info and some god photos. click!
may help you with some basic historical information

Excerpt from "Rehabilitation/Adaptive Reuse Study for First Church of Christ Scientist

"In 1978, the First Church of Christ Scientist became, along with eight other buildings, a contributing structure of the St. James quare Historic DIstrict, National Register of Historic Places, Washington D.C.. The building is also a Registered Historic Landmark of the City of San Jose.

The Historic Prservation Ordinance requires the submittal of a Historic Preservation (HP) Permit for approval of any exterior modifications to the COntributuing Structures within the Historic District. (Municipal Code Section 13.48.210). "

--The Office of Jerome King, 1991

[Possible one of the required 3 challenges]

Info on Buildins

Courthouse

Church of Christ Scientist -History in General

Scottish Rite History

Public Art Master Plan

New Info

For next week each team is to continue to conduct research including a more detailed mapping of the sites and the more informed historical/archeological/anthropological/social/political context. Teams will provide short updates (10 minutes) in class.

DO NOT read from PPT. DO NOT simply stand up in front of the class and rotate speaking roles. Create a coherent presentation by determining the character, roles and quality of the presentation as a matter of professional communication.
Begin to think of this more performatively, An important goal is to create a style that builds onfidence in your teams tactical and strategic approach to the sites.

For Tuesday I want each team to identify what it believes are 3 opportunities and 3 challenges the sites provide. This should be included in the 10 minute presentation.

http://www.sanjoseca.gov/planning/gp_update/meetings/6-22-09/Public_Art_Next_exec_summary.pdf

http://www.sanjoseculture.org/downloads/PAC042020f(a)b.pdf

http://www.sanjoseculture.org/?pid=11100

http://www.sanjoseculture.org/downloads/PAC04202010f(1)a.pdf

http://www.preservation.org/PACSJbrochure.pdf

http://sanjose.metblogs.com/2010/05/29/saint-james-historic-district-tour/

interesting downtown events

for next tuesday.....EXPLICATION

We have decided to embody one of the buildings in the area, including the park itself.
We will each do extensive research about the "quirky" stories or tales that give these buildings/places history.

Cris - San Jose Athletic Club
Travis - Church of Christ Scientist
Nichole - Post Office
Mike - Court House
Teck - St. James Park

We will speak as if we are the building telling a story of how it became.

Also, on Friday we will meet up at St. James Park around 1-ish to talk to people. So there will be two sides to our presentations. We will be telling the stories that are usually never heard.

So for next week....

It looks like Joel is looking for an engaging presentation of what St. James is about.
He considers everything we are doing with St. James as the ART.

We should figure out what we will be doing for next week's presentation. Some ideas I've heard that we are interested in doing is:

-interviews with people there
-some sort of interaction with the people there
-games? stories? video? recording? storytime?

How are we going to execute the presentation?

-powerpoint presentation (Joel explicitly says that he hated this format and we need to level up)
-play video (boring and TIME-consuming; thus we should avoid this at all cost)
-play audio
-handouts
-showcasing artifacts from St. James and make a gallery out of them (any items found at the site)
-personal verbal accounts of our experience there as storytime?
-playing a game involving social themes?

my pick is along the lines of the last three suggestions for our execution.

interesting

on the nps.gov site there is no info. on st. james when you try to find it.
we could do it? for $? well not seriously, but it is a possibility.
check it here.