Focusing on a particular environment

Project B has each student focus on a particular environment or context, and the behaviors that occur in that environment or context.

Examples of environments appropriate for Project B include:

Residential environments – houses, apartments, dormitory rooms

Work environments (including home offices in the age of COVID-19)

Learning environments – classrooms, library spaces, museums, zoos, faculty offices

Outdoor environments – playgrounds, malls, quads, parks

Institutional environments – churches, hospitals, assisted-living spaces

Waiting environments – medical/dental offices, airports, banks

The ideas and work of Gosling can be applied to many of these environments.

specific environments are

addressed in Project B.

In this time of “social distancing,” what you see happening might be different from what is typical, as people are staying further apart from each other (or should be) – you can record, for example, “deflection behavior” in grocery or retail stores, or even on public streets. (If you have experience uploading videos to YouTube, this might be a good way to save your videos and provide links to those videos in a text file or PowerPoint file; sending video files via e-mail necessitates large files and sometimes slow transfer, but if that’s what has to be done, we will find a way. Other video sharing apps probably exist – doing several short videos, perhaps at different times or locations, would be appropriate rather than a long video – let me know what you need to do and we can work on a way to do it! YouTube videos are limited to 15 minutes in length unless you have a “verified” account – which is fairly easy to get. YouTube is part of the Google Suite of apps that come with your Loyola gmail accounts. I am still a YouTube novice, but can try to help you establish an account if you need help – and do not already have an

account.) In whatever format, you can send your project to me via e-mail (or links via e-mail), post your project on the shared Google Drive for our class, or post it on the Blackboard Discussion Board. If possible, I will try to get everything on the Google Drive so that your work can be seen by others in the class. (By the way, the doughnut motif on the Google Drive was generated automatically – it was not my choice!)

If you do any video recording or photography that shows people, be cognizant of their privacy (and right to it). Be as discreet as possible – don’t get in peoples’ faces with your

cameras/phones. If you are recording people you know, make sure they are comfortable with what you are doing. Recording of strangers (those with unknown identities), especially at a distance, should not create any problems. How much is sufficient? Hard to say, as that will depend on what you do. I would say 10 examples of things like hard/soft architecture or sociofugal/sociopetal environments, maybe four offices or room if addressing personality and environments, or maybe five examples of territoriality in some environment.Whatever format, do include some description of what you did and/or where, whether text or narration, and what you are showing and why – 10 pictures of couches is not enough, as you should indicate why you chose those particular couches.