terra incognita (n)
an unknown, unexplored region; territory that has not been mapped or documented

Stories of everyday life -- celebrating a kindergarten graduation, remembering a neighbor who was killed, or describing a community event.  These stories are eloquent and profane – told through text, audio, pictures, and video journals.

Stories of circumstance – telling how gentrification is affecting a neighborhood; questioning why the City fails to clean up a vacant lot; learning how to break a drug addiction.  These are stories that give a human face to issues that impact neighborhoods.

Stories of action – building on local knowledge, these stories share advice, guidance, and ideas for effecting neighborhood change through a virtual community of on-line forums, discussion groups, and blogs.  Links would be provided to information, data, resources, and community people.

Below are images of postcards from the recent exhibition Real City, Dream City: Postcard Dialogue Project . This was a multi-faceted project involving ten Baltimore City Neighborhoods put together by Art on Purpose.