Where is the space of the archive? Is it in a physical space like a local library or rather an intangible collection of digital data on a server somewhere? This project seeks to recapture and reconceptualize the archive-in-place through an architectural/ethnographic analysis. Participants are encouraged to visit and document everything from local historical societies to official presidential libraries to large university archives and report on the particular cultural space that the institution occupies through brief ethnographic encounters. A series of questions have been provided to serve as a guide but participants are encouraged to expand on their observations as much as possible.
The only two rules are that posts must include at least one exterior photograph taken by the author and participants must actually go to the location that is being profiled (otherwise it wouldn't exactly count as an ethnography right?)
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