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The Transborder Immigrant Tool

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

 People coming over from Mexico needed to be able to find water and make their way through the land.  The poetic device was able to help them with that.

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

 It addressed that arts and activism can work well together and be used as a means to assist and help people.

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

The medium used was an app for your mobile device that people could use in order to assist themselves.

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

 I’d say EDT members using the app and Ricardo Dominguez from UCSD.

 5. AUDIENCE: For whom was this project conceived?

It was created for the people crossing the border of Mexico who needed guidance and a means to finding water.

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

Stakeholders were engaged by creating the app, the audience were engaged by using the app, and then it seemed that the government got connected to it after Dominguez was being investigated.

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

To use art to help others have a better life, especially those trying to come in through the border.

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

It’s core belief was that borders are against humanities laws and that together, with technology and art, it can make it better.

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

Something intangible would probably have to be the app itself, but the phone would be considered tangible, as well as the water, immigrants and so on.

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

It’s allowed this technology to begin to be shared around the world.  Though it wasn’t easy, they have made a big stride forward.

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