Project Progress & Plans

The development of PeruVine/PeruDigital was established during the 2007-2008 academic year (beginning Summer 2007).

 

Fall 2010

• Adjust the text to “match” the visuals in PeruDigital, in response to Advisory Board recommendations to clarify the project audience.  As part of this re-design, develop a model for Collaborative Interactive Media Design (CIMD) to study how different linguistic and cultural groups would re-design the Website as an embodied interactive tabletop display based on these re-design proposals.

Summer 2010

• Undergraduate student research on the home decorations of Peruvians in Central Florida

Spring 2010

• Ledesma continued translating the Web site into Quechua
• Zorn directed first thesis to come out of the project by Anthropology student Trish Urdzik (on the experiences of Peruvian women immigrants in Central Florida)
• Completed project video (10 minutes), introducing the various aspects of the project and including interviews with multiple members of the team
• Zorn coordinated with Anthropology Department visit by expert on Peruvian migration and brotherhoods (Dr. Kaarsten Paeregard, member of the project Advisory Board)
• Adams and Underberg implemented a SoTL (Scholarship of Teaching and Learning) project in two Digital Media classes based on PeruDigital which culminated in several proposed splash page re-designs and video game treatments based on the world of PeruDigital.  These were premiered at the Digital Creativity Showcase at the CEM downtown in May 2010
• Folklore fieldwork in Central Florida with Peruvian communities, including a Latin music festival in Vero Beach and a religious procession (Lord of Miracles) in Kissimmee (Underberg supervised a LEAD scholar from the Honors college in Spring 2010)

Fall 2009

• Presented  on project at American Anthropological Association conference in November 2009
• Began preliminary research on Peruvian festival traditions in Central Florida
• Prepared and submitted a proposal to the IRB for the Central Florida fieldwork with Peruvian populations, and began gathering background information (information that can be gleaned by research on the Internet, through casual conversations, observations of public spaces like local restaurants, etc.)
• Partial translation of the Website into Quechua by Professor Norma Ledesma (available at www.peruquechua.org)
• Graduate student Patricia Abón developed proposal and hand-coded prototype for project Web portal to allow users to tag photographs related to Peru materials
• Co-hosted second visit by cultural consultant Flora Zárate, including a gallery exhibition of her arpilleras (appliqués) organized by the UCF Women’s Research Center
• Continued translating Web site into Quechua
• Translated pilot module on Piura, Peru Lord of Agony festival into Spanish
• Project was featured on UCF radio in Fall 2009.

Summer 2009

• The student team created pilot module on Piura, Peru Lord of Agony festival, focusing on three backgrounds/spaces and several avatars, including two festival characters (the serrano or highlander stereotypical figure and the tamalera or female tamale-seller who represents Afro-Peruvian culture)

Spring 2009

• Established an archiving system for digital assets
• More grant-writing, including proposals submitted to American Express and the National Endowment for the Humanities

 

Summer 2008

• Drs. Zorn and Underberg attended another UCF FCTL Summer conference to search for and develop grant narratives for PeruVine/PeruDigital targeted for anthropological funding sources specifically
• Dr. Underberg attended a NEH Summer Institute on "Andean Worlds" in Peru to learn from Andean studies specialists and to network with other colleagues from across the country interested in Andean studies

Spring 2008

• Initial consultation with cultural consultants including Flora Zárate, including a roundtable talk with Dr. Steve Stein (University of Miami) and gallery exhibition of her arpilleras (appliques) at the UCF Women's Research Center
• Initial site walk-through development, which will be revised based on consultation with humanities and cultural consultants
• Grantwriting, including a proposal to the National Endowment for the Humanities

Fall 2007

• Complete research to create the framing text and establish the interpretive framework for the website
• Partnership-building and research trip to Peru which resulted in identification of archive materials to use for project
• Research design completed and wiki created for project management and collaboration, including outline of areas for further research to create the framing text and establish the interpretive framework for the website
• Development of humanities and cultural consultants for project
• Agreement signed between UCF and PUCP

Summer 2007

• UCF FCTL Summer conference to develop the PeruVine/PeruDigital project
• Partnership-building and research trip to Peru which resulted in collaborative relationships with IDE