Hi Pedro, I believe that questions of community participation are deeply relevant to interaction design regardless of whether that participation is mediated by software. It's human interaction at a social, political or environmental level.
A few years ago, two designers at Carnegie Mellon did their Masters thesis on an understanding of graffiti in Pittsburgh, exploring the tension between its creation and the civic response. I seem to remember that community leaders tried to establish sanctioned spaces for graffiti that were ultimately unsuccessful (partly because over-zealous city workers painted over the graffiti anyway). http://www.anneiasella.com/interactive/graffiti.html More recently, in 2005 a sculpture was installed on Hayes Green in San Francisco that seemed to encourage civic participation in graffiti, bridging the divide between authoritative and illicit public authoring. It was virtually covered with pen-drawn doodles and notes in a matter of weeks. It was eventually removed. http://laughingsquid.com/david-best-hayes-green-temple/ I came across a non-digital environmental project on a blog just this weekend that promotes community interaction through a sort of reverse graffiti. >From the project description: "For the second cycle of the 'Keeping in Touch' project, and 18m long silver rub-off surface spreads on the Royal Festival Hall hoardings. As people scratch parts of it, they uncover a new dimension to their environment." http://www.milkandtales.com/hiddenlovesong/hiddenlovesong.html The idea of reverse graffiti is interesting to me: http://www.boingboing.net/2006/09/13/reverse-graffiti-con.html It's a little like publicly shaming the owner of a dirty car by writing "wash me" on the rear window, where the goal is to shape behavior. // jeff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://gamma.ixda.org/discuss?post=21499 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://gamma.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://gamma.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://gamma.ixda.org/help
