Transborder Immigrant Tool - Caleb Wildman

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

The project gave poetry to those crossing the Mexico/US border while helping them find available water.

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

The project creators found a constructive way to push the boundaries of the law. They combined art and activism into what they called artivism.

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

The project was displayed via mobile phones. It was a way to combine art and activism while teaming with NGOs to ensure that immigrants could travel safely.

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

Ricardo Dominguez, the person interview in the article, was one of the primary stakeholders. They also worked with two different NGOs who supply the water stations for immigrants. Other than that, UCSD was where the project was founded under Dominguez’s tenure there.

5. AUDIENCE: For whom was this project conceived? 

This version was primarily conceived for immigrants crossing the border, but it seems like there could be applications for trail-hikers in the future.

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

An app was created to locate fresh water and artists added pieces to it.

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

The goal of the project was not to break the law, but put a disturbance to it. There was nothing strictly illegal to have been found in what they had done, but there were plenty of governmental forces that did not like it.

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

They wanted to help those in need while not specifically breaking the law. It should create a disturbance amongst the people who see what is going on.

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

Mobile technology, coding, water resources, funding from UCSD

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

One of the results was that they were investigated by a few Republican Congressmen, the FBI, and UCSD, where the project was taking place. There were never any charges brought on and UCSD eventually found that university money and labor was being used as originally proposed.