About the Projects
Every semester, students from local colleges and universities work with Trentoniana’s collections to create unique projects. Click on the titles below explore some of them.
D.O.R.A. (Digital Online Regional Atlas)
An interactive map of multiple locations in and related to Trenton created by students in the Interactive Multimedia Design Perspectives class at The College of New Jersey.
A presentation and walk through the woods with The College of New Jersey’s Design Perspectives students Dan Mariniello, Kyle Marsh, Justin Ciarlante, Stephen Kramer, and the 13th child of Mother Leeds.
Mapping Migration: Chambersburg in the 1920s
Employee records from the Roebling’s Sons Company were used to show where immigrants in the early 20th century settled in South Trenton. Created by Irma Qavolli in Princeton University’s Program for Community-Engaged Scholarship.
These oral histories were part of a project conducted by students from The College of New Jersey in 2015.
Not a student project, but one created by Isles that combines local history with local art, vintage with contemporary, and archives with the passerby.
Using the high school yearbook “Bobashela,” Team Fishbowl (Jane Bowden, Dara Kushnir, Alex O’Connor, Aaron Chang) from The College of New Jersey’s Interactive Multimedia Design Perspectives class followed six students who had something to say.
Trenton Makes – Stories from Trentoniana
The COVID-19 pandemic did not stop students in The College of New Jersey’s Interactive Multimedia Design Perspectives course. They created a YouTube channel that spotlights some of the great student projects inspired by the Trentoniana Collection. New videos are added every semester.
A collaborative documentary investigation by the Princeton University course, “Documentary Film and the City,” in partnership with Trenton residents, institutions and community partners. Short films are produced annually which offer a kaleidoscopic lens on the challenges Trenton faces, its ambitions for the future, and the many ways Trentonians are working together to weave and repair the fabric of their city.
