Month: March 2016

this game takes place on a dormitory floor(but it can be applied to a whole building).

this game is very simple and has as a purpose to bring people meet each other. i suppose it could be qualified as an ice breaker.

bascally you take all the rooms and divide them.

one set of rooms will be red.

one set of rooms will be blue.

but  no one is told who its other team mates are.

to get an enemy out of the game, place a white piece of paper on his or her door at night(write what team they are on it). If they were your allies they will be out of the game as if they were your adversaries.

the goal of the game is to be the last team standing.

the inspiration for this game came by the fact that, i feel like most ice breakers are not really usefull or fun.

and by the fact that in second to fifth year student dormitories no one tries to meet or talk to each other.

Initial idea draft:

I would set a small table in the elevator at Curry, where I would act as the waiter. The table will only take up half the space, so students that do not wish to take part can still use it at will.

Those who do can sit down, where I would give them a menu of the food served in the Curry dining hall. I would bring them their food afterwards. I would then leave a check, but whether they just dine and dash is out of my control.

I suppose the main inspiration is my frustration that there’re never any open seats at the dining hall, and so why not just make my own? Also, since it’s a glass elevator, those outside can see into it, thus intervening the space without actually impeding anyone.

Basically my plan is to stand either in one of the schools quads or alongside huntington ave. and promote myself as a Presidential candidate. I haven’t decided how I’m going to do this yet, but I’ll have finalized it by wednesday.

Set up signs at various locations indicating that the locations and nearby objects are being closed for repairs.  The key to this is that the “closed” places and objects are not places that never actually close down. The subjects would be small specific areas- for example, a 4 by 4 section of grass with a sign saying “Grass Closed for Repairs.”

The goal is to make people aware of their environment by taking parts of it away from them.

Materials: 2 Hula Hoops and two people

Walk up to a random stranger and challenge them to a hula hoop challenge. See who can hula longer.

Church of Smart

Draft the church of smart leaflet.

Find  busy area and advertise church of smart and hand out pamphlets for church of smart.

The church of smart pamphlet has hand dandy tips on every day things to make life easier.

People will often avoid people handing out religious paraphernalia, so this plays with that but actually gives out information most people might consider useful.

The game:

1. Pick a major Subreddit
2. Find someone who’s posting hateful things
3. Wish them well

Documentation:

Album of Selected Excerpts

• Most were ignored.
• A few received 1-2 upvotes.
• A few more received downvotes.
• Some parent comments were deleted.

I got three responses from Original Posters so far – the first two were both from people whose original comments were heavily downvoted. They both told me about their day and asked me about mine. The third was a post buried down in the bottom of a thread and just said “Pretty well so far, thanks!”

In true reddit fashion, someone else responded for OP in one instance: “I think he’s just having a ball!”
You can view all of them (and the greater context for them / the posts / etc) from the user page of the account I set up for this project.

(If you click “context” you can see the parent comments in the given thread)
Artist’s statement:

This work was loosely inspired by the subtle intervention of Keith Haring’s subway murals: I wanted to bring some positivity to people’s lives without interacting with them face-to-face and without inconveniencing them in any way.

I also drew some inspiration from various movements that have cropped up on the internet from time to time: I’ve seen posts in the last 5-10 years that people have put up sharing sticky notes with positive messages left in random places, like the mirror in public restrooms. Some of these messages reminded people that they are strong or resilient or that they matter. I wanted random internet strangers to get some sense that they are cared about and that even if they’re just an anonymous collection of text postings, someone is paying attention to them and they’re not just a digital face in a sea of digital faces. Particularly in the cases of people saying hateful things about other people or groups of people, I wanted them to consider humanity and human connection, even if only for a quick second.

The minimalist set of instructions for the game were inspired by the scores found in Yoko Ono’s Grapefruit.

Get in a taxi cab and don’t get out until you have a had a conversation with the driver. People today are sucked in to their phones or more concerned about where they’re going that they don’t pay attention to what is around them on the way there.

In my intervention I plan to act as a doorman. I will stand by a door for X hours (haven’t really decided yet), and when someone comes by hold the door open for them. It’s a very simple concept, but I feel it will have an interesting impact in todays society (especially at places that never would have had a doorman). Many people just sneak in through doors, ignoring the people behind them, too engrossed in their phones and their own lives.

Another side of it that I would like to explore is the Social Justice/ Radical Feminist side of the situation. By this I mean the people who think holding open a door is a sign of the “disgusting patriarchy” we live in. (I am a feminist myself, but anyone who thinks holding a door open is sexist is just impolite. And if you do feel that way keep it to yourself don’t scream at someone because they tried to help you.). But I digress, I want to see if I get any outbursts if all I’m doing is opening the door, and not going in myself.