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Guestbook

ATTRACTING COMMUNICATION
Project by Dorien Traa & David Wieland.

We agreed that people inherently inside the academy often enough ignore posters for them to expect them to remember email addresses and especially if they were supposed to do anything with them. 

We wondered: when do people really give off their email address, just like that? And suddenly we realised that a guestbook in a museum is a typical place where people leave behind their names and emails for no particular reason. We decided to make a guestbook booth.

We also decided that if it was going to be anything, it would be titled "How was your life today?" for people to leave comments about.







We bought:

  • 1 Notebook, sized A4, hard cover. thin, slightly yellow paper. 
  • 1 the most general boring click ballpoint we could find (not bic)
  • 1 a box of golden strings that would serve as a pen string.
  • 1 sheet of the largest adhesive letters we could find.
  • 1 sheet of cardboard, sized A3. 
We found a cube that could serve as a table for the book to sit on. We decided we would position it on the exit path at the entrance, for people to 'sign off' when they leave. They would have more time for this on their exit, we reasoned, than on their entrance; besides it would make more sense to comment on their day at the academy upon exit. 

We made a few bogus entries in the book, so people understand from example what they're supposed to do (ENTER THEIR EMAIL ADDRESS). 

In the end, we hope to have a book with reflections of students of their day. We still have to discuss what we are going to do with the email addresses.
 options are so far: 
  •  nothing
  •  send them a link to this wiki
  •  ??? reward them somehow?