Summary: Exploring the world by 'listening' to the graffiti talk and recording and sharing interesting finds
Description: Walls Talking project is an open, image-based project and an experiment in online collaboration. The idea behind it is to 'listen' to the graffiti talk around us and to record and share interesting finds utilizing the project main site at http://wallstalking.org/Home.mvc/About, Flickr group at http://www.flickr.com/groups/wallstalking/, and wiki at http://listentothewalls.pbworks.com/. Sketches, squiggles, doodles and other more sophisticated street art are the parts of public spaces which are often walked by unnoticed. Collecting and sharing meaningful graffiti and other messages from our walls, desks, chairs, T-shirts etc. can provide us with a picturesque collection of expressions of wisdom, boredom, enthusiasm, dissatisfaction etc. from different places. This can be revealing in quite unexpected ways and can provide us with many interesting possibilities for further collaborations, interpretations, explorations and manipulations. There are walls talking all over our schools, streets, towns, countries, world – by sharing them we can learn more about ourselves and about the world around us.
- Facilitator(s): Sasa_Sasa
- Country: Slovenia
- Languages: English
- Student Age Level: 5-11, 12-14, 15-18
- Contributions: Promotion of friendship and understanding of different views, cultures, opinions.
- Outcomes: A collection of graffiti from different places reflecting lives and cultures of people who live there.
- Related Links:
http://wallstalking.org/
http://www.flickr.com/groups/wallstalking/
http://listentothewalls.pbworks.com/