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Focus Exercise

Page history last edited by Jason Herrington 14 years, 10 months ago

Please designate a FOCUS, a meaningful QUESTION, and a VISITOR ACTION related to the focus.

 

Name Focus Question

Visitor Action

Resonance
Nina Transitions What change do you wish you could make, but haven't? Visitors will act as anonymous advice columnists, offering suggestions to others on how to make the changes in their lives they wish they could make.  
Kelly Strangers What can a complete stranger offer you? (same as example) but with no constraint on the question (aside from spamming/highly innapropriate requests). I would also suggest that there be multiple ways/media  by which to "ask" and "answer." 3
Jason Tomorrow What do you dream about doing? Visitors will share they hopes and dreams, and be inspired and encouraged by those around them. 5
Erin Spring Activities/Memories (without being too sappy)

 

 
Ask visitors what their favorite place on campus is during spring and what they do there.

 

 
Visitors could tell each other in person or write down their answer and add to a collection that others could see.  We could also create a big map of campus for visitors to put a sticker or a marker on their favorite spot. 

 

 
 
Lace Fears What are you afraid of and what do you plan to do about that? Visitors can ask a stranger what they are afraid of. Visitors can tell a stranger what they are afraid of. Visitors can seek advice for dealing with their fear. Visitors can make a record of themselves combatting a fear. Visitors can see what else other people are afraid of. Visitors can view a display space containing frightful things like snakes, spiders, and public speaking all safely behind glass. (I hope we weren't supposed to only list one action.) 10
whitney " I wish . that. i knew what i know now... when i was younger" What's the best piece of advice you've ever recieved?

Visitors will write down the best piece of advice they've recived and how it changed them. They will then offer that piece of advice to someone else, uncontextualized, by handing that person the document/tag/etc. On the back of the document/tag is instructions to the location of the exhibit where they can write a comment on the document/tag and post it in the exhibition space. While in the space they write their own tag and continue the process. 

10

Alex

 

 

 

 

 

Escape

I'm trapped by BLANK. Can you help bust me out of here?

Visitors can pick (or be assigned; or we can help them choose) their escapee.  They can complete an escape plan or route for the escapee's situation (like the evacuation routes posted in classrooms).  This could be done on individual "fill-in" or MadLibs type templates, which could be filed online somehow. Plans could end up being practical, funny, or ill-advised. Then online visitors can search for and select an  escape plan appropriate to what they feel trapped by.  Or we could make and mount a giant (fictional) escape route map to be filled in as visitors pass through.  Maybe glass display cases could be turned into mini-jails?

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Kylie Friendship What would your school/UW experience have been like if you had different friends? Meet and talk to a stranger and envision how their UW experience would have been different knowning them, serruptiously gaining an understanding of their own experience and how the people in their lives affect them. 0
Erin Spring Activities/Memories (without being too sappy)

 

 
Ask visitors what their favorite place on campus is during spring and what they do there.

 

 
Visitors could tell each other in person or write down their answer and add to a collection that others could see.  We could also create a big map of campus for visitors to put a sticker or a marker on their favorite spot. 

 

 
3
Kathryn Future What do you expect/hope/fear to see in the next 20 years? Visitors can write, draw, audio/visual record what they think. Color-coded tags for people to comment on others' ideas. Our content prompts can be books/movies/images/whatever -- may help to focus people's thinking. Also might want to include part about what they plan to/hope to do in order to influence the future.  4

Julie

 

 

 

 

 

Self Control

When have you lost, maintained self-control?

Participants would share times they maintained or lost self control and others would come and comment (offer suggestions, similar stories, etc) the comments could be written on cards and posted on a board or participants could twitter and we would

have a twitterfall on monitors in the exhibit space. If the monitors were not secured, visitors would have to exercise self control and not steal them (we can get them for cheap from surplus).

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Shin Yu Wish (this prompt borrows from Yoko Ono - i.e. her wishing tree projects for world peace -  and Japanese Shinto practices) What would you wish for - whether for yourself or someone else? Visitors will contemplate making a wish, whether dedicating their wish to world peace, or making a request for something much more personal and close to their everyday experiences. Visitors will write that wish down. There will be a visitor log where people can comment on each other's wishes.  6
Jill Eavesdropping What would you like to interject when overhearing conversations? What advice could you share? Leave advice, in the form of recordings, writing, text messages, tweets, drawings, and if you want it unrecorded, just pass this advice on to the next person that walks by.  For written, drawn material, visitors can visitors can amend and add their own comments to new conversations they have “overheard”. 8
Jaisa World What do you consider to be the center of your world? Visitors write down their own answers, and respond to and connect their answers to those of other people. 4

 

 

 

Comments (1)

lace said

at 10:27 pm on Apr 26, 2009

I love the grid! Jason, I was also thinking about Tomorrow, but, more literally, like what are you going to do tomorrow?

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