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The Trans border Immigrant Tool- Ariyan Kassam

1. CONTEXT: What were the circumstances that framed the meaning and process of this project?

EDT giving way to TIT, which gains the attention of the authorities, as it tackled the immigration border in which poetry was given to those crossing the border.

2. CONTENT: What was the issue, need, idea or opportunity addressed by this project?

Immigration and access to water

3: FORM: What is the medium that was used to address or embody the content?

Mobile phone app

4. STAKEHOLDERS: Which are the groups or individuals that were invested in the project?

Ricardo Dominguez, EDT,  CALIT 2 at UC San Diego. Water Station Inc. and Border Angels. and other artists

5. AUDIENCE: For whom was this project conceived? 

Those crossing the border

6. ENGAGEMENT STRATEGIES: How were the stakeholders, audiences, and others engaged/connected to the project?

The app was created to help locate water and can bu updated by users.

7. GOAL: What are this project's objectives?

Guidance through the border through Poetry.

8. VALUES: What were the project's guiding values or core beliefs? How were they expressed in the process?

Change the conversation theatrically by disturbing the law, create artivism.

9. RESOURCES: What tangible and intangible resources were used to pursue the project's goals?

Tangible: The app, UCSD, Writers, Artists involved. Intangible: Understanding, fear, passion

10: OUTCOMES: What were the results of this project? 

Investigations held, backlash from media, support from Water Station and border angels, charges dropped on UCSD

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