Wikipedia:School and university projects/Appropriating History
The course, Appropriating History, is an intermediate seminar within the photography area of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston taught by Carla Herrera-Prats. The course is divided between sections devoted to readings and a class determined group exercise.[1]
Group Exercise Spring 2008[edit]
In considering how historical material operates in the present, and our relationship to the course readings, we elected to work with Wikipedia. The concerns of the course lent themselves to a negotiation with the seemingly endless encyclopedic properties of a format like Wikipedia. Our original intention was to develop the pages according to a twofold criterion of:
- 1) The site must be a registered historic landmark in Suffolk County without a preexisting Wikipedia Page.
- 2) The page must be developed from primary source materials.
Our project is comprised of the following pages:
- Gibson House (Boston)
- First Church of Jamaica Plain
- William C. Nell House
- Haffenreffer Brewery
- Adams-Nervine Asylum