{"65924":{"#nid":"65924","#data":{"type":"news","title":"STaC Students Bring Nature into the Library during Exams","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAs students make their camps in the library during final exam week, they may be tempted to seek shelter from their academic chaos in a new structure that has taken shape in the Neely Gallery.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Treehouse Project is the creation of students in a science, technology and culture (STaC) senior seminar called \u0022The Natural History of Wood\u0022 with Hugh Crawford, associate professor in the School of Literature, Communication and Culture.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThroughout the seminar, students looked at trees and forests as biological, ecological, technological, cultural, mythic and literary entities. They studied a broad range of nature writing, as well as histories of forestry and building practices. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe students decided to build a tree house to serve as a prompt or provocation to think about trees, forests and small structures in relation to liminal space, sustainable building, children\u0027s literature and the popular imagination. In addition to gathering the materials, designing and constructing the house, students produced video interviews, posters, research papers, flash animations and process slide shows representing their broad and varied research. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe treehouse will be on display in the library\u0027s Neely Gallery throughout the week of final exams.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27469","created_gmt":"2011-05-03 08:47:02","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:08:38","author":"Kristen Bailey","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2011-05-03T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2011-05-03T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"65925":{"id":"65925","type":"image","title":"STaC Treehouse","body":null,"created":"1449176884","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:08:04","changed":"1475894585","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:05","alt":"STaC Treehouse","file":{"fid":"192431","name":"treehouse_apr11.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/treehouse_apr11_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/treehouse_apr11_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":232585,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/treehouse_apr11_0.jpg?itok=YWgVLy0B"}}},"media_ids":["65925"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/lcc.gatech.edu\/","title":"School of Literature, Communication, and Culture"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.lcc.gatech.edu\/undergraduate\/stac\/","title":"Science, Technology and Culture Program"}],"groups":[{"id":"1317","name":"News Briefs"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"8755","name":"Hugh Crawford"},{"id":"875","name":"LCC"},{"id":"1205","name":"Library"},{"id":"13026","name":"natural history of wood"},{"id":"169358","name":"stac"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:hugh.crawford@lcc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EHugh Crawford\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELiterature, Communication and Culture\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:kristen.shaw@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EKristen Shaw\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications \u0026amp; Marketing\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}