Community Project
The students and I will design a new type of billboard. We will consider various questions in our consideration. Should it reflect their size and scale? Can it be a horizon plane? Can it incorporate a seat(s) for easy writing/drawing? Can it include a walkway? Can there be multiple blackboards and should they be portable? Can we create an individually sized one for a more intimate use? The blackboard use can take infinite forms—a site for conversations, drawing, games, play, a site for poetry, a place for fleeting thoughts or urgent/difficult inquiries (I believe young people hold this capacity more than assume)—a democratic site for all/anyone to be heard. And in turn the malleability of blackboards—where words can be erased, allows for these new thoughts/ideas to blend (as often chalk traces remain from earlier writings), or completely replaced with the new, which might in fact lead us back to earlier sentiments penned.
