Stop Motion with Isabella

As the semester is coming to a holiday break, Engaged Cornell student Isabella Armas-Leon got together with community researcher and actor Jose Miguel Hernandez Hurtado and with Karen Purcell to produce a stop motion video. This project is part of the dissemination materials being produced to share the work of the ICBOs in creative ways (transmedia storytelling).

Karen Purcell and Jose Miguel Hernandez Hurtado. Photo by Marilú López-Fretts.

It was fun and refreshing as the two took on  their roles explaining with body movement one of the ICBO Research results: "Access."

Isabella Armas-Leon directs the piece. Photo by Marilú López-Fretts.

Capturing Codes

Last summer we began our research coding process. Between picnic retreats and phone meetings, we discussed the patterns that emerged from the surveys. Based on the patterns found, we developed the four categories that we named Power and Privilege, Trust and Transparency, Realities and Relevance, and Commitment and Collaboration. Sister Sharon Horace, Jose Miguel Hernandez and Fanny Villarreal joined us in person on separate occasions to work on the codes, while other participated over the phone. Thank you all!

 Brigid, Karen and Marilu discuss the codes and share the information with the ICBOs over emails.

 Another time one of the community researchers, Fanny Villarreal, joined us in person to a picnic retreat.

 Bobby Wilson discusses with Karen the Robin Hood approach during the American Community Gardening Association's conference.

 Our regular meeting schedule with all the ICBOs.

 Karen and her son working in tandem.

 Marilu (not in the picture) in the company of Sunny.

 The four categories that emerged.

 Working it through...

 Coding process...

 Brigid Lucey diligently capturing codes.

 Our setting for our coding picnic retreats.

Our office for that day...

Working late into the night... during a power outage...