Week 4: part 2

Event
Yesterday we held our event in the art building lobby. I was able to get about half of our total triangles from this event. I approached both people I knew and people I did not. I was selective about the people I choose and I think this is why it was such a positive experience overall. For example, I was not trying to stop students who needed to be in class in 2 minutes. I asked people who were waiting in the lobby for class or who were early and the occasional faculty member. I asked them if they could fill this sentence out for a project I am doing. If they asked, I explain further about the banner and the  peace project as a whole.

Failures/ things to learn from

• We ended up sort of dropped the hashtag social media side of it, we did this because we realized that we were able to get better/truer responses if we explained it as anonymous than trying to push a hashtag. People did not think as hard about it and it took less time. They were also less likely to post what "friends wanted to see" with the hastag dropped
• The original problem of people not wanting to rip our poster was solved 

Construction of Banner

Wednesday night after the event and any stragglers gave us the triangles we started to construct the banner. To attach the pieces to the string we just put small slits into the triangle above the sentence then threaded the string through.

The banner overall ended up being a lot larger than we planned on it being which just makes its presence as a whole, better and more noticeable.

For the critique we hung the banner in the lab so everyone could see it and anyone who was in class that participated could find their own triangle. Below are photos of the posters we hung during the critique. They were the posters that hung in the art building stairwell and were the ones we were able to put the marker next to. We were excited to see that they were filled out and on top of that the poster that was written in originally, someone wrote on the side what they felt. Because of all the participation we did not want to separate the triangles to put on the banner so we decided to look at the posters as a separate entity. 

Kym and I felt that even though there was some failures we felt the project as a whole and the mission of spreading peaceful thoughts was accomplished and we are hopeful that we can hang the banner in the lobby so more participates can see it.