By: Sophia Koolik and Maggie Leppert
In this interaction, placed on a blank wall on the bottom floor of Heimbold, is intended to connect the ideas of different students that walk through this building. Displayed on a blackboard is a fill in the blank story with the instructions “Tell Me a Story.” In this interaction, people are instructed to use chalk to fill in one blank at a time. The next person would then have to build off what the previous person wrote in order to continue the story. Each person involved also can sign their name on the bottom so that the “authors” can all be seen when the story is completed.
This disrupts existing networks because the participants are forced to interact with people they may not normally interact with. A person may not know whoever wrote the sentence before or after them, but they are still collaborating to create something. Castells would like this because the different social groups are coming together to share ideas and build off of the ideas of others. In this interaction, strangers all come together to create a story. This experience is enhanced when the viewers see the final list of names that all collaborated on this story: a list of people who were previously strangers but are now part of a new network.
