Suggestion

For the Tangled Feet residency: The picture above is the result of an online game, where the game starts as an image of a key hole - empty and plain. 4/5 artists then have added an image or something else into the key hole to make a collaborative final image. But who's to say when the image is finished? it could do on forever. I thought this game might be an idea to have an empty A3 or bigger keyhole on classroom walls where it's unlikely to be torn down. And people can add to it - even if it's just their name - anything. And can display these at the end of the week. What do you think?

Steven Johnson

If you haven't read Steven Johnson's excellent book about popular culture "Everything That's Bad is Good for You", I strongly recommend that you do. Here he is talking at a recent Handheld Learning conference, updating the book with more recent examples of how popular culture is, in fact, making us smarter. I think the recent conversations we've been having as a group are also evidence that this is true and I wonder if we need to change the title of our summer event to reflect the central metaphor of a game? I'm not suggesting that the food angle isn't a good one and that it shouldn't be the ultimate pay-off, but the interactivity and non-linear nature of the experiences we are hoping to provide in our event are better represented by the game idea. Just a thought.