Walking with Ghosts: Bryce Hospital’s Hidden Stories, by Kirstin Bone
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This project takes you on a walking tour of the Bryce Hospital campus. Founded in 1861, was the largest insane asylum in Alabama – at one point housing more than five thousand patients at a time. This building, and its associated history, however, have been largely overlooked. Most of the students and faculty on campus are unaware of its original purpose let alone realize that the hospital had active patients as recently as 2014. By walking through the newly opened Bryce campus, you will be able to learn about the building’s history and some of the people who were interned within its walls. While the patients may remain anonymous, their story does not have to.
A Brief History of LGBTQ+ Student Groups at UA, Anne Brettell
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This project was created to give you a short tour of the history of the Gay Student Union and the efforts of its student members on campus to create a more inclusive atmosphere for LGBTQ+ students on campus.
CrossingPoints, by Donna Branyon
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This AR project maps the story of UA’s CrossingPoints (CP) program. CP is a two-tier postsecondary transition program for students with intellectual disabilities. For Tier 1, UA’s CP collaborates with Tuscaloosa City Schools and Tuscaloosa County School System to serve students ages 18-21. Tier 1 students work on daily living skills, personal social skills, and occupational preparation skills. Tier 2, also known as the Summer Bridge Program, serves students over the age of 18. Tier 2 students experience, explore, and develop skills for pursuing postsecondary education at an institution of choice.
Path of Courage, by Candace Chambers
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This augmented reality project explores key places and spaces involved with the events that took place in 1956. Lucy, a 26-year-old African American woman, arrived on campus, February 1, 1956 after a 3-year legal battle by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, which resulted in the winning of a lawsuit. This victory would grant Lucy the opportunity to attend the segregated University of Alabama. The points of exploration, below, were the on and off campus landmarks, which played a role in Lucy’s short stay on campus before her expulsion.
Walk of Shame: Silencing of LGBTQ+ Voices, by Jesse Cosper
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This handout acts as a guide to my Google Map and Blippar app tour. The map seeks to highlight instances of injustice, hostility, and violence toward LGBTQ+ individuals. Places on the map illuminate a silencing of voices, showing the nature of homophobia over several decades, and offers commentary on this silencing of LGBTQ+ individuals. For the Blippar tour, I have selected locations specific to the University of Alabama campus.
Navigating Slave Spaces at the University of Alabama, by Barry Cole
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You are invited to tour three spaces that are pivotal to understanding the role of the “Peculiar Institution” at The University of Alabama before the close of the American Civil War. Like all other slaveholding areas, the University relied on violence and racial separation to perpetuate the institution of American Slavery.
Stillman College as a Space of Resistance, by James Eubanks
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Through the years, Stillman College has been an important part in many people’s lives and an important part of the social fabric of Tuscaloosa. It has been a place that has held its doors open for those in need. It has, throughout its existence, created conscientious citizens who resisted injustice wherever they found it. A unique aspect of that dynamic is the shape that resistance can and has taken. This Augmented Reality experience will shed some light on Stillman and its citizenry’s role in resisting harmful dominant narratives and forging new paths of resistance.
UA Safe Spaces, by Lacee Nisbett
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The university’s history of discrimination against marginalized groups is quite extensive, and some might argue that that the campus has grown to be a community that promotes inclusivity, diversity, and equality. Yet for many members of the UA community, that notion of acceptance does not exist on this campus. Over the past several years, individuals, groups, and organizations on campus are striving to create a community which promotes inclusivity and provides diversity resources. The spaces that those resources create for students specifically “safe spaces” for marginalized groups, are sometimes unknown, inaccessible, or even unavailable. In an attempt to start more dialogue on issues of diversity and offer better solutions for safety on campus, this project offers a augmented reality experience to provide information on available safe spaces and resources currently available at The University of Alabama.
University of Alabama Jewish Student Organization, by Allie Sockwell
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Early UA Campus Dining Halls, by Kelsey Worsham
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