In Green Dream Flowers people will be given a card (instructions/assignment), which will ask them to contribute to the project in a specific way.  Below are examples of my community interactions to date.

1. Love Potions, weekly assignments, which help people to live from love:

2. Community Mapping Project using Locative Media:

I know a Place created interactive maps of places that people find significant in the area where they live.

The project collected the geographical coordinates of the places, the stories that people told about them, and the photographs they took. The resulting map reveals collective connections, interesting patterns, and captures the invisible layers that make a place special to us.

- The unique feature of this project is that people recorded their responses while they were physically present in the space that they were talking about.

- To me what was essential in the process was to have the participants  create their responses after they had spent time in contemplation and observation in their space of significance.

Process

People had to pick one or a few places that had significance to them.

They were given a kit

which included, a Nokia phone, a GPS bluetooth

and a card with instructions

The heart of the project was the time for contemplation and observation.

See the Map (click here)

3.  The Portrait – Collecting Glimpses

I have created a few community projects where I have asked people to do an assignment, follow my instructions and eventually take a picture of something that is specific to them.

I have noticed that the way people carry out the assignment and take the picture shows a view of their outlook on life and reveals sides of their personality.  The picture ultimately becomes a portrait of the person and gives us a glimpse of their perspective.

Below are examples of The Pinhole Project I did in 2002.

Here I gave people the instructions and materials to make a pinhole camera from something from their own garbage.

They were then asked to take a picture of their everyday environment with the camera.

The cameras and the pictures were displayed together and were like a portrait of each person.  Below are examples of some pictures: