Our intention is to devise an experiment which will give us, the Agents, an insight into the act of participation. We will use objects to distribute our message. The handmade golden nuggets will be the carriers of individual fragments of a text file which reads: Together Everyone Achieves More. Through the use of the online platform Facebook, our participants can become part of our bigger picture by posting photos of their unique piece to us. We will provide our participants with clear instructions for this task. We depend upon the collaboration of our participants to communicate this message. The Facebook page will be a catalogue of the responses which we will collect and re-arrange in their original order. This resulting image will be displayed on a separate website and shared with our collaborators. This experiment will visually communicate the outcomes of working as a TEAM.
P O T E N T I A L E N V I R O N M E N T A L F A C T O R S
With regard to a reflective evaluation of our project, we have identified the following potential factors that could have led to the non-return of all the pieces of our bigger picture:
Disposal by cleaning staff
Object lost after being found
Instruction tag may have been detached
One could argue that due to the limited number of objects and the intention of the project having a secretive element, the lack of knowledge about the premise of the experiment could have led to the lack of responses. In future reproductions, if the message was divided into more pieces with more message carriers, the project may have more success with more people knowing about it and wanting to find one thus being part of it.