{"id":25,"date":"2020-04-30T16:48:53","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T20:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/ant240-s20\/?page_id=25"},"modified":"2020-05-15T11:32:03","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T15:32:03","slug":"service-focus-initiative-projects","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/ant240-s20\/service-focus-initiative-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Service Focus"},"content":{"rendered":"

Based at the Pace<\/a> Center for Civic Engagement, the\u00a0Service Focus<\/a> program bridges service and learning by allowing students to engage in hands-on service and forge connections to their academic interests through critical reflection and collaboration with community partners.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/h3>\n

Service Focus connects students with funded service internship opportunities and introduces them to service-related courses along with community perspectives as they begin to shape their academic paths. Service Focus brings Princeton students together to explore the meaning of service and its place in their lives.<\/p>\n

Medical Anthropology is a service-related course and a set of final student projects has been developed in dialogue with the\u00a0Service Focus\u00a0program.<\/p>\n

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Field Trip of the Health and Care Service Focus Group to Kensington, Pennsylvania. Students were accompanied by our Jefferson’s Health Design Lab<\/a> partners Dr. Bon Ku and Dr. Rob Pugliese, and also community activist Bill Kinkle.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Eight students in the Medical Anthropology course have participated in\u00a0the program’s Health and Care cohort led by Professor Jo\u00e3o Biehl and Yi-Ching Ong (Service Focus Program Director) and supported by Service Focus alumni Chitra Parikh.\u00a0Over the course of the academic year, this cohort engaged with three organizations working in the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia around issues of opioid addiction and recovery, criminalization, gentrification, and resilience: the Jefferson Medical School’s Health Design Lab<\/a>, Esperanza<\/a>, and the Creative Resilience Collective<\/a>.<\/p>\n

With the unfolding of the Covid-19 pandemic, our alliance with the Creative Resilience Collective took center stage and students designed projects exploring health as human adaptation to changing environments and the role of the arts in recovery and healing. Students crafted innovative mixed-media projects under the mentorship of Sebasti\u00e1n Ram\u00edrez (Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Global Health Program).<\/p>\n

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Service Focus group meeting with the participation of our partners from the\u00a0Creative Resilience Collective<\/a>, May 5, 2020<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By leveraging a variety of media, students\u2019 projects chronicle often-untold stories of the neighborhood and elevate the voices of local residents and creators beyond mainstream media portrayals that focus exclusively on drug use and urban blight. Instead, the three projects under the Service Focus program highlight the neighborhood\u2019s rich history, uncovering voices often left out of mainstream narratives and chronicling Kensington residents\u2019 enduring struggles to shape their lived environment and the stories told about their own lives.<\/p>\n

The Service Focus’ Health and Care cohort has developed the following projects:<\/p>\n

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“A WAR ON PEOPLE”: SPEAKING OUT AGAINST CRIMINALIZATION<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Group:<\/strong> Mary<\/span> Davis \u201922<\/span>, Grace Simmons \u201922, and Ilya Yatsishin \u201922<\/p>\n

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Photo by Jeffrey Himpele (VizE Lab<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Through an exploration of one man\u2019s story, this project highlights the importance of decriminalization and harm reduction as a tool to end cycles of poverty and drug addiction. This webpage features the interview of a long-time North Philadelphia resident, Moses, connecting his intimate perception of the drug epidemic with broader themes of harm reduction, political action, and media misconceptions of Kensington.<\/p>\n

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WHEN BROTHERLY LOVE FAILS: A HISTORY OF STRUCTURAL VIOLENCE IN KENSINGTON, PHILADELPHIA<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Group:<\/strong>Abigail Drummond \u201922, Leah Smith \u201922, Sarah Yashar-Gershman \u201922<\/p>\n

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Neighborhood Children at Peace Wall<\/a> Photo by Jack Ramsdale<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Drawing from visual work and historical evidence, this site brings about a counter-narrative that is not covered by the media, revealing demographical and structural forces that shape the neighborhood\u2019s built environment and social fabric. Presented as a timeline, this site puts together archival materials with further context and analysis, illuminating how changes in job availability, housing, and ethnic and racial demographics have created both the conditions of urban precarity and the possibilities for recovery and repair.<\/p>\n

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THE ART OF HEALING: PUBLIC ART AND RECOVERY IN THE KENSINGTON COMMUNITY<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Group:<\/strong> Zaynab Masood \u201922, Joy Xie \u201922, Sandra Yang \u201922<\/p>\n

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Show Your Kensington<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This project offers an exploration of how the community\u00a0of Kensington has reflected upon its struggles and strives for different forms of wellbeing and care through public art. The site curates a collection of murals produced in collaboration with local residents, and together with the artists\u2019 own voices, offers reflections on the carceral state, recovery, and other ideas of wellbeing. These representations are offered alongside broader histories of race, policing, urban and economic development, healthcare, and public art, in order to chronicle how artistic interventions can bring together multiple voices, reshaping the lived experience of places and enduring ideas of community.<\/p>\n

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Health and Care cohort visiting the\u00a0States of Health<\/a>\u00a0exhibition at the Princeton Art Museum, guided by art curator Veronica White, December 2019<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Based at the Pace Center for Civic Engagement, the\u00a0Service Focus program bridges service and learning by allowing students to engage in hands-on service and forge connections to their academic interests through critical reflection and collaboration with community partners.\u00a0 Service Focus connects students with funded service internship opportunities and introduces them to service-related courses along with … <\/p>\n

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