Here are the questions that sparked this project:
Who uses the Quarter to work, to live, to meet, to drink/eat, to shop, to protest?
Do enough people love it and care for it?
What do we need to do to keep it from atrophying into complete caricature?
Or is it just architecture?
This project will focus on the historical, cultural and geographical syntax of the French Quarter in order to better understand the evolution of our entire city and region.
If you have an opinion, I'd like to hear about it. This project will tell details of all kinds, of every single block in the Quarter. Reviews, interviews, essays, stories, criticism. And links to those places and written histories that need to be remembered. But let's leave the obvious to the postcards and dig up some old underused ideas and add some new innovations to our city center. Blog pieces, zines, broadsheets, articles, maps and other forms will be used in this project.
If you would like to contribute to the project, you can email me by emailing to my name below at gmail.
I am happy to take stories, fables, personal history, expert advise from anyone interested in the French Quarter being shown as (or becoming more) of a vibrant, 24 hour/7 day a week diverse culture. The final project that comes from the research will be in book form.
Dar Wolnik
