Beth collaborated with artists from Amber Art & Design and Fairmount Park Conservancy as part of a residency at the historic Hatfield House in Philadelphia. Together with residents, a community advisory board, and local arts and culture makers, they transformed the underutilized house into a platform for experiments in civic engagement and collective memory. Along with ethnography and oral history collection, they activated a cultural asset mapping process which culminated in the design of a deck of playing cards celebrating local people and places. The playing cards featuring current and historic figures and landmarks, such as jazz saxophonist John Coltrane and boxer Eugene “Cyclone” Hart.
They also gathered data with youth via four roundtables (with support from a Hatch Lab grant, through the Alliance for Media in collaboration with New Community Partnership whose youth leaders ran the roundtables), recording input from more than 20 young people about their experiences living in the neighborhood.
