Emily Clawson Design for Social Equity : Good 'Ville Research Groups

For our final class project we decided to choose the topic of Campus Goodwill. From there we started to brainstorm groups and what needed to be accomplished. We were placed into groups and from our Tuesday to Thursday class had to research our section and report back.

I was in the physical space group. During class we came up with a lot of different locations we could hold a thrift store event including:

the student memorial center multi-purpose room
one of the campus gymnasiums

Brooks Gym
Pucillo Gym

Possibly Gerhart Hall

Our next item to identify is locations we could use if we needed to store goods; we thought of storage units and possibly closets on campus.

We had to think of transportation of goods and budget.

Levi also thought of the idea to use a dumpster system, similar to the salvage army.

After brainstorming we all took elements to research and prepare to present to the class the next time we met. My topic was Gerhart Hall; I needed to find out what it currently was being used for and if there was any space that we could borrow. Below are my findings that I presented to the class.

Options:

Gerhart Hall

After going to the location and speaking to the desk attendant, I learned that all of the space in Gerhart is planned to be occupied by the spring semester. Currently the University is removing found asbestos from the building. Then it will be home to the offices and labs of the Anthropology and Archaeology Departments. The houses they are located in now are slated from eventual removal because of the proposed expansion of the McComsey Parking lot.

So my findings showed that Gerhart was not an option for our project.

After hearing all of the presentations we started to gather information and figure out the concrete facts. Below is a photo of the notes I took and the whiteboard where the notes were originally being taken. During this process we also heard and voted on the name of this operation/store/idea. The two popular names were Ville Treasure Trove and Good 'Ville, but when it came down to a vote, Good 'Ville won.