In her New Orleans neighborhood, artist and TED Fellow Candy Chang turned an abandoned house into a giant chalkboard asking a fill-in-the-blank question: ...
========== Translator: Joseph Geni
Reviewer: Morton Bast There are a lot of ways
the people around us can help improve our lives. We don't bump into every neighbor, so a lot of wisdom never gets passed on, though we do share the same public spaces. So over the past few years,
I've tried ways to share more with my neighbors in public space, using simple tools like
stickers, stencils and chalk. And these projects came
from questions I had, like: How much are my neighbors
paying for their apartments? (Laughter) How can we lend and borrow more things, without knocking on each
other's doors at a bad time? How can we share more memories
of our abandoned buildings, and gain a better understanding
of our landscape? How can we share more of our hopes
for our vacant storefronts, so our communi...