Assignment; Introduce the class to the community that you will be studying. You should conduct some initial observations and gather visual materials and artifacts so that you can bring this community to life for the rest of the class.
We chose New York’s Pennsylvania Station as an overall community for our study. For this first assignment we surveyed the entire station including the Amtrak, New Jersey Transit and Long Island Railroad areas. Our plan is to narrow our focus to just one off these areas. Our methods included direct observations, photography and creating a collection of artifacts from the station. Here is a presentation on our Penn Station Observations.