Connecting Muncie Neighborhood partners and resources
Ball State faculty, students, and community partners worked together this spring on a number of immersive learning projects in and around Muncie.
Anthony Northside Neighborhood Living Quality
Faculty Mentor: Jason Yang, Department of Geography
Community Partner: Muncie Action Plan, Anthony Northside Neighborhood Association
Brightfield to Bright Future
Faculty Mentor: Sanglim Yoo
Community Partner: Sierra Club Hoosier Chapter
More to come!
PHOTO provided by the Anthony Northside Neighborhood Association
The stone gateway at the entrance to the Wheeling Park Addition at Wheeling/Cowing and another remaining stone boundary post on Wheeling are the last standing structures in Muncie born of the generosity of Harriett B. Anthony.
In April 2019 the Anthony-Northside Neighborhood Association (ANNA) discovered these monuments were in the path of the city’s planned reconstruction of Wheeling Avenue. A mad scramble was made to find the funding and resources to save the historic gates. With the help of numerous state and local organizations including Ball State’s College of Architecture and Planning, Indiana Landmarks, the Muncie Board of Works, and the Federal Highway Administration funds were eventually allocated for the Indiana Department of Transportation to remove the iconic brickwork and return them to their original locations once the Wheeling project completes.
Read the whole story and see more photos of the project on ANNA’s website!
Ball State faculty, students, and community partners worked together this spring on a number of immersive learning projects in and around Muncie.
Academy of Model Aeronautics Video Project
Faculty Mentors: Tim Pollard, Department of Telecommunications; Suzanne Plesha, Office of Immersive Learning
Community Partner: Academy of Model Aeronautics
Assigning the Living Quality of Muncie Neighborhoods Using Remote Sensing and GIS
Faculty Mentor: Jason Yang, Department of Geography
Community Partner: Muncie Action Plan
Beneficence Records (ongoing)
Faculty Mentor: Daniel Porter, Department of Music Media Production
Community Partner: Indiana Public Radio
Capturing “The Big Idea”
Faculty Mentor: Melinda Messineo, Department of Sociology
Community Partner: Second Harvest Food Bank
Geospatial Design Laboratory
Faculty Mentor: Jörn Seemann, Department of Geography
Community Partner: Muncie Visitors Bureau
Halteman Park Landscape Architecture Studio Project
Faculty Mentors: Chris Baas, Jeremy Merrill, J.P. Hall; Department of Landscape Architecture
Community Partners: Halteman Village Neighborhood Association, City of Muncie, Muncie Parks Department
Human Rights Symposium
Faculty Mentor: Ruby Cain, Department of Educational Studies
Community Partners: City of Muncie Human Rights Commission, Industry Neighborhood Association, Whitely Community Council, Muncie Public Library, Muncie Housing Authority, It Is Well With My Soul, DePaul University School of New Learning and Service Engagement Projects, Northeast Indiana Workers Project, Inc.
i-Made (Indiana Made) Muncie: Custom Fabricated Design-through-Production (ongoing)
Faculty Mentor: Kevin Klinger, Department of Architecture
Community Partners: Indiana Hardwoods (IHLA), Midwest Metals, Minnetrista, Mobile Market
The Junior Producers Club
Faculty Mentor: Christoph Thompson, School of Music
Community Partners: Boys and Girls Club, Buley Community Center
Muncie Neighborhood Visual Identity Design (ongoing)
Faculty Mentor: Shantanu Suman, School of Art
Community Partners: Building Better Neighborhoods, Muncie Action Plan
Preserving the Past and Looking Toward the Future: Historic Preservation and Digital Storytelling for a Muncie Landmark Church
Faculty Mentor: Peggy Fisher, Department of Communication Studies
Community Partner: St. Mary Catholic Church
Renovation of Residential Structures
Faculty Mentor: Janet Fick, Department of Construction Management and Interior Design
Community Partners: ecoREHAB, Urban Light, and Brothers 2 Brothers
Sustainable Muncie Project: Assessing Sustainability for the City of Muncie
Faculty Mentor: Sanglim Yoo, Department of Urban Planning
Community Partner: Muncie Action Plan
Teen Dating Violence
Faculty Mentor: Ron Dolon, Department of Social Work
Community Partner: A Better Way
Tourist Maps for Muncie and Delaware County
Faculty Mentor: Jörn Seemann, Department of Geography
Community Partner: Muncie Visitors Bureau
Urban Health in Muncie, IN: Pb in the Soils (ongoing)
Faculty Mentors: Carolyn Dowling, Department of Geological Sciences; Jessi Haeft, Department
of Natural Resources and Environment Management
Community Partner: United Way of Delaware County
Well Connected
Faculty Mentor: Jane Ellery, School of Kinesiology
Community Partners: Muncie Action Plan, Future of Work/Sustainable Muncie, George and Frances Ball Foundation
Working with the Whitely Community to Identify Needs and Resources of Men who are Reentering the Community After Periods of Incarceration
Faculty Mentor: Keisha Warren-Gordon, Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology
Community Partner: Whitely Community Council
Churches play a significant role in the lives of Muncie residents, and every church has a story worth preserving. St. Mary Catholic Church located on West Jackson, held its first mass on December 8, 1930. Then, the parish had 100 families. Today, the church campus has grown and the community is now made up of approximately 700 registered families. Although the parish has kept an extensive collection of historical records, photos, and other memorabilia dating back to the 1930s, many of their stories had gone untold. The goal of this year-long, immersive project was to assist St. Mary Church with a variety of storytelling initiatives. Students conducted interviews, filmed and produced a series of seven short videos covering topics such as the grounds, the stained-glass windows, and church architecture. The students are also publishing a photo book that incorporates augmented reality so that the photos can tell stories of their own.
Faculty Mentor: Peggy Fisher
Department: Communication Studies
Community Partners: St. Mary Catholic Church
Students: Scott Anderson, Nathan Guide, Abigail Huff, Elli Mott, Zach Neitzel, Avonlea Schnitzius, Cameron Toner
Ball State faculty, students, and community partners worked together this Fall on a number of immersive learning projects in and around Muncie.
Beneficence Records (ongoing)
Faculty Mentor: Daniel Porter, School of Music
Community Partner: Indiana Public Radio
Campus Sexual Assault and Rape Culture in the Age of #MeToo
Faculty Fellow: Jill Christman, Department of English
Community Partner: Jana’s Campaign and The Facing Project
Computer Science for Middle Schoolers (CS4MS) (ongoing)
Faculty Mentor: Dave Largent, Department of Computer Science
Community Partners: Burris Laboratory School, Muncie Central High School, Northside Middle School
i-Made (Indiana Made) Muncie: Custom Fabricated Design-through-Production (ongoing)
Faculty Mentor: Kevin Klinger, Department of Architecture
Community Partners: Indiana Hardwoods (IHLA), Midwest Metals, Minnetrista, Mobile Market
The Junior Producers Club
Faculty Mentor: Christoph Thompson, School of Music
Community Partners: Boys and Girls Club, Buley Community Center
Makerspaces as an Opportunity to Cultivate and Reinforce Cultural Identity in Post-Industrial Cities
Faculty Fellow: Laura Romano, Department of English
Community Partner: Muncie Arts and Culture Council
Muncie Micro-Cinema
Faculty Mentor: Maura Jasper, School of Art
Community Partner: Muncie Arts and Culture Council
Muncie Neighborhood Visual Identity Design (ongoing)
Faculty Mentor: Shantanu Suman, School of Art
Community Partners: Building Better Neighborhoods, Muncie Action Plan
Preserving the Past and Looking Toward the Future: Historic Preservation and Digital Storytelling for a Muncie Landmark Church
Faculty Mentor: Peggy Fisher, Department of Communication Studies
Community Partner: St. Mary Church
Reconstructed Early Language and Literacy Learning: Addressing school readiness through critically conscious listening centers
Faculty Mentors: Emily Hoffman, Department of Early Childhood, Youth and Family Studies; Kristin Cipollone, Department of Elementary Education
Community Partner: Huffer Memorial Children’s Center
Resiliency Plan for Muncie
Faculty Mentor: Michael Burayidi, Department of Urban Planning
Community Partner: City of Muncie
Sitting at the Feet of our Muncie Elders: Stories of Resistance and Resiliency
Faculty Mentor: Darolyn “Lyn” Jones
Community Partner: Westminster Village, Muncie Delaware County Senior Center, Moth Danner and YART (Yard Sale for Art).
“In 2015, the City of Muncie Historic Preservation and Rehabilitation Commission (MHPRC) initiated a partnership with the Graduate Program in Historic Preservation in the College of Architecture and Planning at Ball State University to develop a comprehensive and citywide Historic Preservation Plan. The Plan’s purpose was to review the City’s historic preservation program and recommend action steps to strenthen and prioritize the program. Through a series of community meetings, a public input survey, studying best practices in other cities, and utilizing an updated historic resource survey, the Ball State students developed a plan that was then further edited by the MHPRC to meet Muncie’s needs.”
Check out the Muncie Historic Preservation Plan!
Web Friendly Version (pdf)
High Resolution Version (pdf)