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Aaron Knochel and Dickie Selfe

We've built three primary components of the "Spaces of the Hilltop" site for readers and viewers to explore. While linear documents predominate, they describe an unexpected and often surprising project. The mapping imagery of the web interface is an attempt to illustrate the surprising element of the Hilltop project. The map is not "accurate." It shows real streets and highways in, around, and in-between the Ohio State University and the Hilltop community, but it is not intended to provide directions. Instead the map is explored through the web interface as a metaphor for the heterotopic spaces of the Hilltop: spaces of real geographies with alternative voices and local histories. A map may show a "place" (Michel de Certeau, 1988), fixed and accurate, but our map aims to show a shifting, morphing space through the layers of faces, buildings, and satellite images that begin to visualize the spaces of the Hilltop.

Similar to the many spaces of the Hilltop, the web interface tells the stories of the Hilltop project through different forms: streaming videos and an article more typical of academic writing. The article is available to navigate in a linear fashion, and a list of the streaming videos is also available. As you read, sample the Hilltop stories and imagine what "work" the storytellers are accomplishing with their narratives.

For a "nonlinear" experience, use the graphical map that extends to the right and below and trace some spaces of the Hilltop as your finger might trace routes on a map. Click on links that will allow you to read sections of the essay and explore the videos as they are juxtaposed throughout the web interface.

Technical requirements: Your browser will need to run Javascript code and allow popup windows in order to experience the map. All media are played using the Flash plugin.

Introduction map Dickie's Story map spacer
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map Laverne Guyton "Wide Vistas"
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map The Dilemma of Community Literacy Work map Daniel Stanley "My Time on the Hilltop" map spacer
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map A Theoretical Interlude: de Certeau, Foucault, & Latour map spacer
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map The Hilltop Project Today: An Emergent Partnership map spacer
Reita Smith "The Importance of Local History" Earl Potts "The Ballfield and Renting Radios" map Another Approach by a Hilltop Team Member map Pam Weaver "Bean Dinner" map spacer
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map Maurice Bell "The Rev" II map spacer
map Maurice Bell "The Brakes" map spacer
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map Broad Parameters for Community/Academic Interactions map map spacer
map Pam Weaver "The Apprentice" map spacer
map Cindy Anderson "1913 Flood Part I" spacer
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map Janine Bourdo "Greenlawn Cemetary" spacer
map Cindy Anderson "1913 Flood Part I" map spacer
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