Mapping EiJ in Azusa challenges the conceptualizations of place, boundaries, intersectionality, flows and disjunctures. Azusa is a city, connected and cut-off in ways similar to other small regional municipalities. An archive of Azusa is linked to multiple other cities not only by shared boundaries, but also by transporation flows of people, goods, air, faultlines that extend far beyond the cities bounded space.
Because this archive is centered around public schools any and all families of school-age children should be interested in the archive. Students wanting to learn more about the built environments they grew up in should also be interested. Anyone interested in governance in Azusa and neighboring localities should be interested.
Yes, because this archive is always also an educational endeavor with young people and their teachers, it aspires to provoke publics who care about EiJ historically, presently and imaginatively for future generations.
At the moment, Tanio and Hernandez curate this archive.Contributions have mostly come from them; when material is not their's it is noted.In the next year, the number of contributors to this archive/exhibit is expected to increase.
Purpose: At the moment this archive was created to document the following topics in Azusa, CA and Azusa High School: environmental hazards; school district/city/regional/county/state/federal environemntal hazards law and policy; 210 freeway history and documentation; history of wild fires the San Gabriel Mountains and Angeles National Forest; social and environmental history of city and schools; water rights history of Azusa.This archive is a sub-set of a larger archive and project of the San Gabriel Valley with
At the moment this archive is trying to answer research questions regarding the environmental hazards and related institutional infrastructures and ecosystems that surround the high school, neighborhood next to the 210 freeway, and more generally the city.Data that can be drawn on:
