Connected Messages
Connected Messages is a construction kit that lets youth express personal and communal ideas by designing interactive community murals. The project was launched by the Maker Jawn Initiative across five Free Library branches in Philadelphia, and over 1,000 youth collaborated to create murals from foam boards, markers, and low-cost networking technologies. The murals function as programmable public displays that connect local neighborhoods and online audiences in Philadelphia. Read more about the project from Medium.
Contributors
Orkan Telhan, Richard Lee Davis, K-Fai Steele, Barrie Addleberg
Related Research
Kafai, Y. B., Telhan, O., Davis, R. L., Steele, K.-F., & Adleberg, B. (2018). Making Connected Messages: Designing Community-Relevant Murals with Youth in Public Libraries. In Lee, V. & Phillips, A. (Eds.), Reconceptualizing Public Libraries: Perspectives from the Information and Learning Sciences (pp. 39-55). New York, NY: Routledge.
Litts, B., Kafai, Y. B., Fields, D. A., Halverson, E. R., Peppler, K., Keune, A. Tissenbaum, M., Grimes, S. M., Change, S., Regalla, L., Telhan, O., & Tan, M. (2016). Connected making: Designing for youth learning in online maker communities in and out of schools. In Looi, C.-K., Looi, C. K., Polman, J. L., Cress, U., and Reimann, P. (Eds.). (2016). Transforming Learning, Empowering Learners: The International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS) 2016, Volume 2. Singapore: International Society of the Learning Sciences. Link to PDF
Telhan, 0., Kafai, Y. B., Davis, R. L., Steele, K., & Adleberg, B. M. (2015). Connected Messages. In Eric Gordon and Paul Mihailidis (Eds.), The Civic Media Project. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Link to PDF
Telhan, O., Kafai, Y. B., Davis, R. L., Steele, K. F., & Adleberg, B. M. (2014). Connected Messages: A Maker Approach to Interactive Community Murals with Youth. In Proceedings of the 2014 conference on Interaction design and children (IDC '14) (pp. 193-196). New York, NY: Association for Computing Machinery. Link to PDF