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Ode to Barelas: Supporting Youth Agency Cultural Expression, and Community Engagement Through an Interactive Mural

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Alyshia Bustos,

Nanibah Chacon,

Leah BuechleyAuthors Info & Claims

DIS '24: Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Pages 2183 - 2197

https://doi.org/10.1145/3643834.3660752

Published: 01 July 2024 Publication History

Abstract

Community mural projects provide youth with the opportunity to learn new skills, have a voice, and deepen their connection to their communities. This pictorial reflects on a participatory community-based STEAM project in which a group of teenagers collaborated with a muralist (Author 2) and two interaction design researchers (Authors 1 and 5) to create an Interactive Mural—a traditional mural with embedded electronics. We analyzed students’ experience of agency, expression, and connection to community throughout the project. We discuss how large-scale community-centered projects that provide opportunities for student agency and expression are rich learning environments that can promote technological fluency.

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DOI:10.1145/3643834

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Buechley LBustos A(2024)Characteristics of Conductive Paints and Tapes for Interactive MuralsProceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies10.1145/36785878:3(1-34)Online publication date: 9-Sep-2024
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