Montes, Ramon Luis

Overview "This thesis is a collection of research, data, and information about the Jamaica Plain Porch Festival (Porchfest) and the rebirth of its new owners; Dunamis Boston. Dunamis is an organization that provides support to artists of color in the Boston area. Our time with Dunamis has developed a cartographic prototype in which we analyzed the culture of Jamaica Plain, and how it can be further connected to Porchfest. Since Dunamis' adoption, our mapping system is a product of the needs and wants...

Overview "This thesis was completed in collaboration with Andrew Genova and Graham Rutherford, both of whom provided excellent support and diligence throughout the process. We worked alongside our partner organization, Dunamis Boston, an arts organization seeking to empower emerging artists of the BIPOC community. Our team's prototypes were centered around helping to support the BIPOC community of the Jamaica Plain area by highlighting the BIPOC artists, businesses, and restaurants festival goers...

Overview "This paper will examine how we developed three prototypes for Dunamis to work in tandem to revamp the Jamaica Plain Porchfest and address BIPOC community needs. Each prototype is examined in depth as to how they present new design opportunities not only technologically but socially as well. Our rationale and processes are shown to exemplify how we got from beginning to end to create designs that will live beyond our involvement with our community partner, Dunamis. This thesis paper was...