For this project, you are offering a plan proposal that pitches to your local government officials to EITHER (a) design and plan your own public memory installation that does not yet exist; OR (b) redesign, revise, and/or expand upon an existing public memory installation. Your installation should serve some rhetorical and symbolic purpose. Central to the memory installation will be your installation plan, a document that offers a rationale for your proposed installation and provides various kinds of schematics, models, images, and/or maps to help imagine or visualize the installation. Your plan should discuss the goal/purpose of your installation, how your installation responds appropriately to that goal/purpose, and the overall design choices of your installation. Your plan should include extensive and in-depth research on what you have chosen to memorialize and draw upon frameworks from the class to justify your design choices. Installation plans should be approximately 1000 words.
• Identify something you want to memorialize: a person, an event, a relationship, a place, etc.
• Draft a Memory Installation Plan in approximately 1000 words,
excluding works cited/References and any appendixes.
• Draw upon at least TWO (2) readings from class for the Memory Installation Plan
• Create visual aids for your design: whether a diagram, a schematic, an image, a “vision board” of potential elements or style.
• The Memory Installation Plan should be written as a proposal to local officials. (see Below)
Memory Installation Proposal Guideline
I’d like you to approach this proposal as if you were actually submitting a proposal to local government officials. In other words, rather than a straight-up essay (which government officials would not read), you’re going to draft a business proposal.
Below, I offer the typically components of a business proposal of this nature. Each section would be provided its own section title in your proposal.
Brief Introduction: The introduction should briefly explain what the document is and what it seeks to do. State your intentions directly and what is included in the document. It’s the first piece of writing that people will read so you want to be clear, direct, and brief. You can offer more context in the next section. This section is just to make the person aware of the basics of the document.
Central Aim, Goal, and Background Context: This section offers the overall rationale about why the memorial is needed (or why a memorial needs revision). What are the problems? What problem does this memorial seek to resolve? What makes this relevant now, for this community, and for this location? Who is the intended audience for this memorial. Offer background and/or research to help contextualize why this is important to memorialize. Explain a set of goals that you think your installation will accomplish.
Design and Defenses: This section will be key to the overall project. Explain your specific choices and the rationale behind those choices. Best way to think about this section is to identify a specific choice and then explain that choice by pointing to and drawing upon frameworks from class. Then explain another specific choice and do the same thing—and so on. And likewise, point to how these choices accomplish the goals you identified in the previous section
Conclusion and Reflections: What’s the key take-away(s) of this installation? What are the one or two key ideas you want people to keep in mind about the installation and why? Likewise, you might offer an honest evaluation of the effectiveness of your installation: identify some potential limitations or challenges with its designs.
An Appendix of Design Documents: An appendix is a section at the end of essays that collects and labels documents/images/maps that you’ve referred to in your essay. For instance, in the “Design and Defense” section, you might have described the location of where you want your installation to go. It’d be wise, then, to include a map in the appendix. Each document/image/map in the appendix is given a label such as “Appendix A,” Appendix B,” and so on. In your essay, you can invite people to “refer to Appendix C.”
Works Cite/References: your project must include readings and research from class.
EXAMPLE
Robert E. Lee Monument in New Orleans
The Robert E. Lee Monument in New Orleans has been removed, and city planners have been planning for what might replace the ruins of the old monument. Here’s an article outlining some information about the planned revision, complete with image Examples:
https://www.nola.com/article_9063eb44-9c18-59fa-9aa8-
12e044823662.html
MIGHT HELP (EXAMPLES)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ludkE1lMwScvSYbNXzN_nhVKiuQXjyV3/view?usp=sharing
https://docs.google.com/document/d/17xOmQt6SPzZEr_IQbO1vNSGJ5r_oElFE7SHX5qx8WYE/edit?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1knCl_a_IbGXX9AvfUMbsxFpb_Zrv9z9Y
CLASS READINGS
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uqZQ6z6bddZbVoZQrI4TFDiAU3aGeUaR3VbdUuy4ckQ/edit?usp=sharing
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OBVu6Dvl3M1HQYOV6lCRrmlDqLzB0j_S5PrKiaIpyBc/edit?usp=sharing