I then went to collect them and was annoyed when I realised one of them had been completely removed and was no-where to be seen. When set up the previous day some older students moved it to the side because they were setting up a coffee stand type thing for the morning, however I went to talk to them and they said they would be gone by 2pm and would put it back for me when they left.
I don't know if it was put up and someone took it or someone just thought it was rubbish, either way don't trust people.
Also someone stole the sharpie from one of the interventions so obviously we have to tie down the pens as people like to steal.
With that in mind, the other two were still intact, one with a line and pegs, and one without
The one placed in the industrial building got less participation, however this was the one with the line being displayed so maybe people weren't keen to have their secrets displayed, also because there may have been less foot traffic.
This is a photo of the responses:
A you can see most people didn't seem to put down serious things. But some people do seem to be participating probably which is nice. We didn't have rules displayed which was a bad call, and we should have remembered the point of the exercise is to test a few aspects not just one.
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The other intervention was placed in Te Ara Hihiko by the kitchen on a table. This got a lot more responses and although a lot were just stupid and some advertising for the wardrobe, people had noticed it and wanted to interact with it which is great that we got response at all.
This may have had a larger amount of participation because of the foot traffic, the people in the building or even the fact that you had to put it in a box and that was it, no public display at all.
I had a thought that it would be interesting to have these boxes set up everywhere and keep collecting people secrets and responses and then print them large and display them on walls of our stalls as an art installation at the market..however we would only use serious sounding secrets such as 'I stole a girls work book becuz she stole my computer on D floor. Sorry xxx'
It would be interesting to have them blown up large and have a large display. however we really like the idea of interaction still, and not sure if we could just change our idea to an installation that people look at and the tutors will probably think it's not very original or creative enough.
So tomorrow we need to talk together as a group and see if we need another trial with a voting booth type thing made out of cardboard to see if that affected people and what they wrote. Making it more serious.
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