Matthew Shelley-Reade Showcases Research at Visualizing Knowledge Exhibition

2017 May 22

Matthew Shelley-Reade was one of several students to present a project at Wesleyan's first student visual knowledge and data visualization exhibition on May 12. Students were asked to showcase how they conveyed or established information in a mainly non-verbal form.

Shelley-Reade's project was titled, “Redevelopment and Relocation in Middletown’s Historic Waterfront.” In the aftermath of Middletown’s 1959 waterfront redevelopment, 35 African American families were displaces from their homes in the downtown area. In 1961, the City of Middletown created an emergency tent city to temporarily shelter these individuals, but it was taken down the following day by protesters. This project, which includes multiple photographs, touched on Middletown’s evolving history from trade port to tenement housing.