Prospect Park, Brooklyn: Spring 2017
https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/prospect-park, Photo by Daniel Avila
Description: Working with New York City Parks, as part of the 150th anniversary of Prospect Park
Students: Furniture, Industrial Design, Textiles
Themes: Race, diversity, and the immigrant experience; Prospect Park as a lens for studying the dynamics of social identity
Books: The Newest New Yorkers; David Gerber, American Immigration: A Very Short Introduction; David Roediger, Working Toward Whiteness: How America’s Immigrants Became White; Joseph Carens, Immigrants and the Right to Stay
Guests: Kristen Peterson, historian of immigration and Associate Professor of History and Social Sciences at Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences
Exhibition: Lefferts House, Prospect Park,
Student Work
