The things that particularly stood out to me were the large red statue drum that stands on the campus at UC Santa Cruz. This captured my attention because it is a relatively simple structure that, whether serves its intended purpose or not, resulted in a community of students playing music together.
This reminded me how powerful music is in that it unifies everyone in its proximity.
We also watched videos of other projects like the Subways stairs which resulted in people hopping and dancing us subway stairs as music notes played from under them. There were also larger projects like Parking day where people pay a meter for an entire day and set up a mini park in the parking spot. We also were provided with a website full of other public works and art installations meant to exemplify how others have attempted to bring their community together.
These videos were both helpful and confusing for me and many other of my peers, as these seemed to be more a form of entertainment rather than sustainable community. These projects probably were not based off of empathy interviews, nor did they seem to solve any kind of problem. Although they were temporarily unifying and entertaining, I wouldn't call most of them "sustainable". This clouded my idea of what our projects were supposed to do. I originally wanted to do something that fit with the art pieces we had seen, a sort of walking art gallery where a painting would change as you moved. But then we were told we had to identify a need, and all of a sudden the art installations we had been shown had little connection.
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