Resonance

Author Joel Chandler Harris is most known for his publications of the Uncle Remus stories, documenting African American Folktales that were previously passed down orally. He first heard these stories from enslaved peoples while working at a Newspaper Plantation in Georgia, and used them as a source of inspiration for his published works. He wrote them on the front porch of his home which, since his passing, has become a museum. The museum, “The Wren’s Nest”, seeks to continue telling African American stories Harris documented as they were originally told, but face capacity-based limitations. For this, "Resonance" is a proposal as a means to add more space to host storytelling events on the property, and introduce a maker space to the community to attract more visitors to the museum. A multistory space houses a large maker space that can be transformed into a storytelling space using projections onto the workspaces.