{"657744":{"#nid":"657744","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Digital Media Master\u2019s Student Designs Exhibition of Women\u2019s Experiences at Georgia Tech","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn 1952, Elizabeth Herndon and Diane Michel became the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/coe.gatech.edu\/news\/2015\/02\/women-tech-timeline\u0022\u003Efirst full-time female students\u003C\/a\u003E at Georgia Tech. Fast-forward to 2022, and the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/news.gatech.edu\/news\/2022\/03\/29\/georgia-tech-admission-announces-decisions\u0022\u003Efirst-year admitted class\u003C\/a\u003E is 44% women \u0026mdash; the highest percentage in Institute history. Michelle Ramirez, a digital media master\u0026rsquo;s student in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.lmc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Literature, Media, and Communication\u003C\/a\u003E (LMC), crafted her final project to explore women\u0026rsquo;s experiences on campus over the past 70 years.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERamirez\u0026rsquo;s curated exhibition, \u0026ldquo;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/livingbuilding.gatech.edu\/gender-equality\u0022\u003ESDG 5, Gender Equality: Reimagining our Future through Art and Technology\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026rdquo; is on display through December 2022 in \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/livingbuilding.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EThe Kendeda Building for Innovative Sustainable Design\u003C\/a\u003E. Ramirez also designed an interactive oral history about women\u0026#39;s experiences at Georgia Tech, which she demonstrated for visitors on April 13.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I am passionate about the intersection of storytelling, art, and feminism,\u0026rdquo; Ramirez said.\u0026nbsp;\u0026ldquo;When I learned that 2022 marks the 70th anniversary of women attending Georgia Tech, I wanted to design a master\u0026rsquo;s project that not only celebrates their remarkable achievements but shows the reality of attending a male-dominated institution.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWith the support and guidance of her team of advisors \u0026mdash; LMC Associate Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/iac.gatech.edu\/people\/person\/nassim-parvin\u0022\u003ENassim Parvin\u003C\/a\u003E, LMC Assistant Professors \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.lmc.gatech.edu\/profile\/anne-sullivan\u0022\u003EAnne Sullivan\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.lmc.gatech.edu\/people\/person\/noura-howell\u0022\u003ENoura Howell\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/serve-learn-sustain.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EServe-Learn-Sustain (SLS)\u003C\/a\u003E Service Learning and Partnerships Specialist \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/serve-learn-sustain.gatech.edu\/rebecca-watts-hull\u0022\u003ERebecca A. Watts Hull\u003C\/a\u003E, and Women\u0026rsquo;s Resource Center Director \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/womenscenter.gatech.edu\/users\/melanie-demaeyer\u0022\u003EMelanie DeMaeyer\u003C\/a\u003E \u0026mdash; Ramirez invited trans women, non-binary folks, and cis women affiliated with Georgia Tech to submit digitized photography, paintings, creative writing, and research papers related to the theme \u0026ldquo;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sdgs.un.org\/goals\/goal5\u0022\u003ESustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026rdquo; Visitors can see a selection of these artworks hanging from six banners on the second-floor railing of the Kendeda Building and three posters on the first floor of the building.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The exhibition aims to connect diverse research methods, artistic endeavors, and knowledge production occurring today on Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s campus,\u0026rdquo; Ramirez said. \u0026ldquo;It is not a space to simply showcase women in technology, but to demonstrate how women and gender non-conforming folks in technology are reshaping research questions and pushing artistic boundaries, which can bring us closer to accomplishing this grand goal.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDuring her graduate studies, Ramirez worked as a graduate research assistant in SLS, a campus-wide initiative working with educators to incorporate the U.N. SDGs and community partnerships into student learning.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;When Michelle shared that her final project would focus on gender equity, we started brainstorming ways she could bring together her academic work with SLS. We are thrilled with the impressive exhibit she curated,\u0026rdquo; Watts Hull said. \u0026ldquo;By engaging with a diverse group of students and faculty members who submitted works, the exhibit demonstrates how gender equity (SDG 5) can be linked to virtually any discipline and expressed in many creative ways. Through collaboration with the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/livingbuilding.gatech.edu\/\u0022 title=\u0022https:\/\/livingbuilding.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EKendeda Building for Innovative Sustainable Design\u003C\/a\u003E, the exhibit also highlights equity in the built environment, advancing the Living Building\u0026rsquo;s equity and beauty goals.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETo further amplify the impact of the exhibition and reach a wider audience, a digital magazine including images of the banners and posters on display, research papers, as well as biographies of the artists and abstracts of the selected works is available at\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/issuu.com\/mmireya8\/docs\/gender_equality_exhibition\u0022\u003Eissuu.com\/mmireya8\/docs\/gender_equality_exhibition\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The exhibition\u0026nbsp;presents a much-needed supportive and celebratory recognition of gender equality progress and issues on Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s campus,\u0026rdquo; Howell said. \u0026ldquo;Michelle chose to work in the background and showcase others\u0026rsquo; artworks in this exhibition, yet through her vision, curation, and execution, the artworks in this exhibition come together as more than individual works. Taken together, the pieces in this exhibition celebrate the progress on gender equality that has been made so far,\u0026nbsp;critically acknowledge ongoing and intersectional and queer issues of gender equality and offer hopeful ways of imagining and striving toward a future of gender equality for all.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to curating the SDG 5 exhibition, Ramirez invited visitors to a \u0026ldquo;living room\u0026rdquo; space she created in the basement of the Kendeda Building for a one-day demonstration. She designed the space to serve as a \u0026ldquo;familiar\u0026rdquo; and \u0026ldquo;conversational\u0026rdquo; environment for visitors to experience the project.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EVisitors interacted with objects lined with touch-sensitive conductive tape, which played snippets of interviews from the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.livinghistory.gatech.edu\/s\/1481\/45-lh\/start.aspx?gid=45\u0026amp;pgid=61\u0022\u003ELiving History Programs\u003C\/a\u003E on the wall.\u0026nbsp;Some of the objects displayed were reproductions of relevant documents and photos, such as \u003Cem\u003EThe Freshman Girls\u0026rsquo; Handbook \u003C\/em\u003E\u0026mdash; a female-student-written handbook, which provided information on \u0026ldquo;dress, activities, and campus rules\u0026rdquo;\u0026mdash; and a RAT Cap. Other items were symbolic representations of the video content, such as an old record player.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Selecting the snippets of stories, selecting and creating artifacts to relate to the stories, and designing ways of interacting with the artifacts to play the stories is a challenging design problem that Michelle tackled through carefully listening and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/estsjournal.org\/index.php\/ests\/article\/view\/248\u0022\u003Edoing justice to stories\u003C\/a\u003E alongside thoughtful, tangible design iterations,\u0026rdquo; Howell said. \u0026ldquo;All this hard work fades into the background of a highly engaging, slow, thoughtful way of eliciting and witnessing these stories of Georgia Tech\u0026#39;s history.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThe \u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/dm.lmc.gatech.edu\/program\/ms-program\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EM.S. in Digital 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