It was our first meeting with community members from Leimert Park, Los Angeles’ historic and influential Black neighborhood just east of Crenshaw.
Sitting in a large circle inside the iconic KAOS Network, my students and I heard a variety of stories ranging from the legendary jazz musicians that lived blocks away, to revolutionaries of the Watts Riots to how a new public transit station could bring in either new opportunities or gentrification.
The Fall 2017 class wanted to experiment with new, cutting-edge technology that included augmented reality, 360 video, Unity and videogrammetry (which produces a moving hologram).
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