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Marcea Decker and Rehanna Azimi worked together with a community organization, the Weequahic Park Association (WPA), in the South Ward of Newark, New Jersey for their Fall 2013 Studio 1 final project.<\/p>\n

The WPA has seen great successes in terms of grant-funding and park revitalization despite being a small community-based group. Marcea and Rehanna constructed a colorful and friendly physical game board of the park divided into four zones with a spinner in the center, explicitly for their audience of middle-aged and elderly Newark residents who attend Weequahic Park Association meetings. To participate, one person flicked the spinner and told a story pertaining to that zone of the park that the spinner lands on in order to better understand their attempts, successes, and failures of cleaning up their park. After a couple failed design attempts and ideas, they found that this particular design attempt was successful \u2013 the game was inviting, simple, and was designed to facilitate sharing stories in order to transfer knowledge.<\/p>\n

The game-play itself unfolded in a way not intended by the original design, instead of prompting story about a specific zone, it served as an ice-breaker to share any kind of story within the park, which was audio recorded and transcribed for the final design and visualization of their work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Marcea Decker and Rehanna Azimi worked together with a community organization, the Weequahic Park Association (WPA), in the South Ward of Newark, New Jersey for their Fall 2013 Studio 1 final project. The WPA has seen great successes in terms of grant-funding and park revitalization despite being a small community-based group. 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