For Roar Week Spring 2019, the SLRC meet-and-greet event kicked off ConnectUP -- an identity map for our students.
We created a 6'x4' board covered with 30 randomly-placed posts, each of which is labeled with traits with "born in Houston" or "gamer" or "lives with family." Students take a piece of string and start wrapping it from post to post to choose those that describe who they are.
The result is an identity map showing where our students overlap and where they may be unique.
This identity map was inspired by Project I-Dentify at Ferris State University's Ferris Library for Information, Technology and Education (FLITE), itself inspired by the Unity Project interactive public art.
The board stayed on display for students to add strings from January 17 through January 25, 2019. When the board is complete, it will be hung on a wall in the SLRC to display. After a couple years, the strings will be removed and new project will begin.
