Exhibit

• Interactive Touchscreen:

  Mounted, touch-sensitive displays will allow users to select a journey—for example, a nature lover from Hawthorne visiting the Heinz Refuge—and walk through a series of routes and stops in neighborhoods in which redlining has had a significant impact. Users will be able to view data on a map, historical documents, major events in city history and terminology, to gain context and a greater understanding of how certain neighborhoods have changed over the course of two centuries. When the user finishes their journey, the map resets for the next person to explore.

• Data Maps: 

  Complementing the touch-screen visualization, users will be able to zoom in on maps on various routes to see the changing demographics throughout the city’s history and redlined neighborhoods as well as other pieces of the narrative on the display. Information collected, aggregated and digitized will form the layered maps so users have a greater understanding of the historic practice of redlining.

• Documentary: 

  This twenty-minute documentary focuses on the themes of Displacement and Confinement and includes interviews with citizens and elected officials who have fought against and/or suffered from the discriminatory practice of redlining in three neighborhoods in Philadelphia—Chinatown, Kensington and The Black Bottom (West Philadelphia)—and an analysis of the practice within the city itself. Through first-person narratives and portraiture and verité, the lived experiences of marginalized community members—specifically people of color—will expose the historic and continuous systemic action and myriad, organized forces that prey on vulnerable people and spaces.

• Visual Art: 

  Informed by historical information, archival images and mapping data, and focused on the artistic multimedia visualization of the exhibit, artists will present ‘real’ and reimagined narratives of the people and places impacted by redlining. Photography, visual art and sculpture will be presented through a reimagined lens that reflects what communities would look like if resources were equitably distributed. Users will develop a deeper understanding of the emotional repercussions of displacement and systems designed to disrupt and dismantle opportunities that exist at the intersections of race and class.

• Reflection Booth: 

A private reflection booth will capture real-time reactions and responses. The booth will be a safe and inclusive space for all audience members to share stories of how they have been adversely impacted by or even benefited from redlining practices.