Installation
Tell Me More is a place for people to reflect on the 2018 fires that ravaged California & what the impacts have meant for them. The project marries sequences of story-listening with story-collection in an interactive installation.
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Standing next to the each stool is an audio recording totem, where visitors are invited to reflect on what they’ve heard via other speakers & add their own perspectives to the conversation.
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While this iteration focuses on the impacts of the recent Camp Fire, Tell Me More is a prototype for a new kind of civic engagement. Installed in public spaces, it creates a context for strangers to reflect & converse with each other about issues of change & vulnerability in our built environments, creating broader community-based conversations about the challenges & opportunities of modern urban life. From impacts of climate change to economic inequality to gentrification, Tell Me More is a collective space for processing our concerns about the ways our communities & cities are changing.
It’s also a valuable data collection tool. Gathering people’s reflections provides valuable insight on the words & phrases people use to talk about change, about their fears, hopes & dreams. Their answers, comments & questions are critical for cultivating more approachable dialogues about our collective urban futures.