Group creative breif

Group--Erica Wincheski, Naomi Wray, Kate O'Leary
- What will the project be - MEDIUM?
We are making a recipe book about the neighborhood of South Chicago.
- How will you make it? - PROCESS?
Together, we're going to research different areas of the neighborhood. The introduction of the recipe book will focus on the history of South Chicago, and how it evolved into the neighborhood it is today. The food portion of our recipe book will be predominantly Hispanic, as we know South Chicago has a very large Hispanic population. For the bulk of the book, we came up with the idea of interviewing a few members of that community. By asking them questions about themselves, how they feel others interpret them or how they feel about their community personally, we're going to generate recipes based on their answers. We'll document answers with interviews and images, and compile them into the cookbook. Our finished result will be a part cultural, part edible recipe book
.- Which GUIDING QUESTIONS does your project address, and how?
Our main guideline is how the power of imagination affects the reality of the presence. It's important to this group to be respectful of the community we're learning about while also observing how they perceive themselves and how they feel they are perceived from outside their community
.- What is the MESSAGE? How do you want your audience to respond?
I think our priority is giving the audience a fair view of the community. How a community that might be under served is still a community, and they work together regardless of culture boundaries or poverty. What makes a community isn't the quality of the buildings or the condition of the neighborhood, it's the people that create a community. We want the audience to get a true sense of South Chicago with a creative product to learn from.
- What other artists or media have influenced your groups' project?
This unit has been community focused; we watched The Gleaners and I to get an understanding of how people are put through hard times and still manage to come out successful.