Going Overtown Digital Project for Miami

FAIN: MD-296252-24

Miami Dade College North Campus (Miami, FL 33167-3418)
Jose Rafael Vazquez (Project Director: June 2023 to present)

Planning an immersive virtual reality experience and a website examining the history of vanished African American neighborhoods of Miami. 

"Going Overtown" is a digital humanities project to engage the public with the African American cultural landscapes of South Florida through a virtual reality experience and a multi-modal digital application. The project will focus on historic neighborhoods affected by segregation and gentrification in Miami since the late 1800s.