2019: The River Corridor Display Project

This was another class assignment where we were tasked with designing a public art display that would not only attract the attention of parkway visitors, but also provide fun, historical, and geological information about the ground they are walking on. The display would have been placed along a river corridor located around the southwestern part of the University of St. Thomas campus, the area closest to the Mississippi River. Here is a quick breakdown of what my proposed structure would consist of: The base and the frame itself would have been made of material that can be found locally in the area. The different materials would also be somewhat layered on top of one another as a way to better represent the vast geological history of the Mississippi cliffsides. On top of said base there would be a plaque that would contain some general information on the area as well as a special QR-code that would send readers to a special UST webpage containing more extensive information on the area, perhaps even narrated videos and archived photographs. And finally, there’s the cherry on top that being a rocky frame formed in the shape of the state of Minnesota, which would act almost like a “window to the past” in a way and feature transparent illustrations of either what the River Corridor used to look like or feature a transparent map of the rivers and mountain ranges that exist in the state. Overall, the structure would stand approximately 8 ft tall.