Participatory Action

When I began to brainstorm an idea that could incorporate the entire class and inspire people, I began to think about the things that people witness on a daily basis just walking through the city. You see what people are wearing, how they wear their hair, even what their shirts say and these little things stick with us. My idea begins with the entire class brainstorming a few phrases that would inspire and provoke thought if read. The next step would be to print these phrases on a number of large poster boards. Along with the phrase you on the front of the sign, a URL would be printed on the back. The idea being that after reading these phrases people would feel the need to respond, therefore generating a number of hits to our website. Similar to MadV's YouTube phenomenon, our website would give these people a chance to respond and share their own thoughts. Art would be in the message in this case. Our messages would encourage people to share thoughts they may have never felt compelled to share before. Our class would be the cornerstone to this experiment, seeing as that the phrases we chose touched these people enough to warrant their responses.