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Seeing Lost Enclaves is an initiative by Jeffrey Yoo Warren as part of the 2023 Innovator in Residence Program at the Library of Congress.

Seeing Lost Enclaves

Relational reconstructions of erased historic neighborhoods of color

Seeing Lost Enclaves is an initiative by Jeffrey Yoo Warren as part of the 2023 Innovator in Residence Program at the Library of Congress.

This is a draft guide. The final will be published in September 2023 on the LC Labs website.

This repository contains the documentation for the Seeing Lost Enclaves project. Part 1: Research will be posted in draft form in December 2022.

The files contained can be viewed individually but are cross-linked as well:

• Research contains Part 1: locating reference materials for relational reconstruction.
  • See the bibliography
  • See a source set of free to use Library of Congress materials
• Modeling covers crafting 3D buildings and mapping reconstructed facades and textures onto them.
• Soundscapes covers developing audio soundscapes from archival and reference recordings.
• Atmosphere covers generating ambient effects, lighting and weather within reconstructed scenes.

This material can be browsed on GitHub https://github.com/libraryofcongress/seeing-lost-enclaves or accessed through a web viewer at https://libraryofcongress.github.io/seeing-lost-enclaves/

This guide is released under the Creative Commons Zero 1.0 license; see LICENSE.