Blow Up: Framed Turning Point by Anne Dotter https://padlet.com/adotter/86rfzosgw4u99n8e In Michelangelo Antonioni's Blow Up, a fashion photographer discovers evidence to a murder in the pictures in took in a park mere hours prior. While my camera did not witness a murder, the story of JCCC's campus emerged from the framed images I looked at last night. I did not intend for it. Looking at the images, I realized that chasm, tension and dichotomy are better words to lead my narrative than two of my original picks: suburban and parking lot. I still stand by disjointed. en-us 2021-06-24 20:47:59 UTC 2023-06-11 04:26:01 UTC hello@padlet.com Most striking across campus is the juxtaposition of old and new buildings... adotter https://padlet.com/adotter/86rfzosgw4u99n8e/wish/1624235372 I had noticed this on my first walk-about. I then wondered what story hid in the tension between old and new.]]> 2021-06-24 21:06:10 UTC https://padlet.com/adotter/86rfzosgw4u99n8e/wish/1624235372 yet, old and new are also melded together. adotter https://padlet.com/adotter/86rfzosgw4u99n8e/wish/1624237714 2021-06-24 21:08:52 UTC https://padlet.com/adotter/86rfzosgw4u99n8e/wish/1624237714 However, new is always outward facing. Whether we are talking to art lovers (Nerman Museum)... adotter https://padlet.com/adotter/86rfzosgw4u99n8e/wish/1624238348 Looking at the photos, it became evident that the new and shiny faced out while the noble red brick lived within the confines of the new.]]> 2021-06-24 21:09:40 UTC https://padlet.com/adotter/86rfzosgw4u99n8e/wish/1624238348 Or performing arts lovers... adotter https://padlet.com/adotter/86rfzosgw4u99n8e/wish/1624239566 The fact that outward facing buildings are not all aimed at a student audience game me pause]]> 2021-06-24 21:11:00 UTC https://padlet.com/adotter/86rfzosgw4u99n8e/wish/1624239566 Or students! adotter https://padlet.com/adotter/86rfzosgw4u99n8e/wish/1624240166 The student center isn't centered, in fact, it cannot be seen from either of the two main thoroughfare bringing traffic to campus. I wonder about that location.]]> 2021-06-24 21:11:29 UTC https://padlet.com/adotter/86rfzosgw4u99n8e/wish/1624240166 Or food lovers... adotter https://padlet.com/adotter/86rfzosgw4u99n8e/wish/1624240597 I have enjoyed dinners at the Culinary institute with scant a student to see among the diners]]> 2021-06-24 21:11:56 UTC https://padlet.com/adotter/86rfzosgw4u99n8e/wish/1624240597 The old constitutes the heart of campus adotter https://padlet.com/adotter/86rfzosgw4u99n8e/wish/1624241613 On this first walk, I made a point in staying on the outskirts of campus. I made the choice to walk off the beaten path that literally limits your mobility to the center of campus.]]> 2021-06-24 21:12:39 UTC https://padlet.com/adotter/86rfzosgw4u99n8e/wish/1624241613 In the heart of campus, walking is encouraged and guided... adotter https://padlet.com/adotter/86rfzosgw4u99n8e/wish/1624242556 2021-06-24 21:13:38 UTC https://padlet.com/adotter/86rfzosgw4u99n8e/wish/1624242556 On the outskirts, one will need to drive from the Midwest Trust center to the Nerman Museum and more so yet to the Culinary institute or the student center. Not that these are far apart, there is simply no path taking the adventurous from one to the other. A single option is available: the car. adotter https://padlet.com/adotter/86rfzosgw4u99n8e/wish/1624246806 On my first walk-about I did notice that the sidewalks came to an end upon reaching the building and that to get to the next building, I had to walk on grass or between bushes. This led me to wonder about access, about audience, about belonging]]> 2021-06-24 21:18:01 UTC https://padlet.com/adotter/86rfzosgw4u99n8e/wish/1624246806 So while the campus is surrounded by parking lots on the North... adotter https://padlet.com/adotter/86rfzosgw4u99n8e/wish/1624251915 The Chronicle of Higher Education ran a piece last week about the parking crisis on college campuses. Not ours! A belt of parking lots bars your access to the first set of buildings. If not a parking lot, then it will be a garage (one of the south end, one on the north).]]> 2021-06-24 21:23:47 UTC https://padlet.com/adotter/86rfzosgw4u99n8e/wish/1624251915 On the East... adotter https://padlet.com/adotter/86rfzosgw4u99n8e/wish/1624253067 On the outskirts, sidewalks and walkways go from the parking lot or garage to a specific building]]> 2021-06-24 21:25:09 UTC https://padlet.com/adotter/86rfzosgw4u99n8e/wish/1624253067 On the South... adotter https://padlet.com/adotter/86rfzosgw4u99n8e/wish/1624255185 2021-06-24 21:27:56 UTC https://padlet.com/adotter/86rfzosgw4u99n8e/wish/1624255185 And on the West adotter https://padlet.com/adotter/86rfzosgw4u99n8e/wish/1624255533 I noticed on my walk that we have two electric car stations, one on the east and one on the west end of campus. When I get an electric vehicle, I will need to plan a 10 minute walk to my office]]> 2021-06-24 21:28:21 UTC https://padlet.com/adotter/86rfzosgw4u99n8e/wish/1624255533 To belong one needs a car, unless one happens to be on the route of the bus. adotter https://padlet.com/adotter/86rfzosgw4u99n8e/wish/1624257226 I wonder whether the less affluent parts of Kansas City are linked to our campus via public transportation. The bus pictured here goes from the campus of the University of Kansas in Lawrence, stops at JCCC to end on the Kansas City campus of KU.]]> 2021-06-24 21:30:34 UTC https://padlet.com/adotter/86rfzosgw4u99n8e/wish/1624257226 Kansas' weather - between blistering summers and the Siberian winters - might lead few individuals to choose the bike. I have seldom seen any on campus. This is likely also a by-product of the absence of bike-lanes on the main roads of access to our campus (despite three lanes!). And yet, our campus is ready for bikers! adotter https://padlet.com/adotter/86rfzosgw4u99n8e/wish/1624258475 Our campus is focused on renewable energies and composting and really anything that is environmentally friendly. I wonder about the tension between bike parking and utter absence of bikes]]> 2021-06-24 21:32:04 UTC https://padlet.com/adotter/86rfzosgw4u99n8e/wish/1624258475 Bikers who can figure out how to safely attach their bikes to the creative bike locks adotter https://padlet.com/adotter/86rfzosgw4u99n8e/wish/1624259946 I wonder whether the bike parking offered on various ends of campus are aspirational. ]]> 2021-06-24 21:33:58 UTC https://padlet.com/adotter/86rfzosgw4u99n8e/wish/1624259946 One can even do minor repairs adotter https://padlet.com/adotter/86rfzosgw4u99n8e/wish/1624261948 2021-06-24 21:35:49 UTC https://padlet.com/adotter/86rfzosgw4u99n8e/wish/1624261948 Mobility also becomes a problem on campus: to go from the parking lots on the margins of campus to the center where the learning takes place requires an uneven hike adotter https://padlet.com/adotter/86rfzosgw4u99n8e/wish/1624264203 2021-06-24 21:38:32 UTC https://padlet.com/adotter/86rfzosgw4u99n8e/wish/1624264203 And accessible entries are tucked away and not always close to one's classroom, such as the Honors Learning Studio adotter https://padlet.com/adotter/86rfzosgw4u99n8e/wish/1624265429 I only noticed a few such entries on my walk-about. I wonder how students with limited mobility go around campus. ]]> 2021-06-24 21:39:56 UTC https://padlet.com/adotter/86rfzosgw4u99n8e/wish/1624265429 So chasms form along many lines on our campus: old and new, rich and poor, able bodied or not, white or not adotter https://padlet.com/adotter/86rfzosgw4u99n8e/wish/1624276960 On our walls, I notice the homogeneity of our leadership. I wonder whether a more diverse leadership would effect change in a predominantly white and well-to-do county]]> 2021-06-24 21:54:35 UTC https://padlet.com/adotter/86rfzosgw4u99n8e/wish/1624276960