VOX POPULI: A Psychogeographies Project
This page contains videos for those who choose to experience VOX POPULI at home, live outside the DC area, or simply want to be reminded of the experience they had.
Also included below are links to digital versions of each instruction sheet as well as additional links and resources.
Chapter 1: Foundry Branch Valley Park
Prefer not to leave home? Find a window with a view. If it’s near water, or a crumbling wood structure that’s even better. Break the seal inside the box and explore each item starting with the tin box. Watch the video below.
Click here for a digital copy of the CHAPTER 1 instruction sheet
Click here for A MAP with additional parking information and directions
ADDITIONAL MATERIALS
(Two Terrific podcasts on Jacob Coxey and Coxey’s Army):
Stuff you missed in History Class
In The Past Lane Podcast
Chapter 2: Ward Circle and American University
Prefer not to leave home? Find a window with a view. If that view includes a statue, a church, and an open field, that’s even better. Break the seal inside the box and explore each item in the order described in the “To Do List.” Watch the video below.
Click here for a digital copy of the CHAPTER 2 instruction sheet
ADDITIONAL MATERIALS:
A look back at 1970
Secrets Buried In NW
Chapter 3: Lafayette Square to the Reflecting Pool
Prefer not to leave home? Find a window with a view. If that view includes
a park and some white marble, that’s even better. Break the seal inside the box and explore each item in the order described in the “To Do List” as you watch the video below.
Click here for a digital copy of the CHAPTER 3 instruction sheet
ADDITIONAL MATERIALS:
1913: A look back
1913: What the boy scouts did
1968: On the Mall
1968: making the invisible, visible
2020: The Writing on the Walls
2025: History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes
Chapter 4: Malcolm X Park / Meridien Hill Park
Prefer not to leave home? Find a window with a view. If that view includes a park with the sound of drums, that’s even better. Break the seal inside the box and explore each item in the order described in the “To Do List” as you watch the video below.
Click here for a digital copy of the CHAPTER 4 instruction sheet
ADDITIONAL MATERIALS:
The Longest Walk
2015: Million Mask March
2017: Juggalos March on Washington
1979: Tractorcade
Chapter 5: Capitol Hill / 8th Street / Barracks Row
Prefer not to leave home? Find a window with a view. If that view includes a view of a bustling neighborhood street, that’s even better. Break the seal inside the box and explore each item in the order described in the “To Do List” as you watch the video below.
Click here for a digital copy of the CHAPTER 5 instruction sheet
ADDITIONAL MATERIALS:
Phase 1, Washington DC
As You Are DC
Listen: “A White Horse” – Memory Palace (9 min) [A story from a different city, but a connected world]
Chapter 6: Carnegie Library
Prefer not to leave home? Find a window with a view. If that view includes a view of a neo-classical building, that’s even better. Break the seal inside the box and explore each item in the order described in the “To Do List” as you watch the video below.
