Tasks / Suggestions Box
Take a large box and label it 'Suggestions'.
Decorate it if you want.
Take it with you and get suggestions from strangers.
The suggestions can be about anything.
1 to 10 players
25 points
Level 2
Created by Tricia Tanaka
15 completed :: 31 in progress
Interested in collaborating on this: (no one yet!)
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The Waller and Steiner Suggestions Box is a living social experiment (or "dialogue organism") developed to encourage community understanding and engagement, introduce internet-like self-organization strategies into a non-internet environme...

I call this "Suggestions Box: The Taco Chronicles" or some other witty taco-inclusive title. I'd been intrigued by this task for a while, but my main concern was that people would refuse to give me suggestions-people in LA are not nice ...

The problem with Stanley is the size of the place. It's not big. It's tiny. I think I scared some people yesterday. Admittedly the fault was on my side. I pushed it a little too far with this task, resulting in my Dad recieving two phone calls quest...

Speznut Spikoo Moonkey and I set out to collect the suggestions of Brentwoodians in the beautiful downtown Brentwood. This first location, where the Christmas tree goes in the downtown park, was not an ample polling position. The foot traffic in t...

Day 1. I started the suggestion box task today. It seems like such a good idea that this won't only be a task for me, it'll possibly change the way I live my life if I find wisdom in the notes of others. So, having this intention I decorated an old b...

I decorated a Van's box with gold ribbon and brought it to school with me. The people who gave suggestions weren't exactly strangers but if I had to bully and cajole my closest friends to get within a few feet of that box how were the scary people I ...

I love this task. :D Words without pictures are useless to explain what happened, though, so here's a brief summary of each day and then a picture-book story :D Day 1- I had the box at work all morning and afternoon, left it by the main entrance to...

Shortly after the entertainment director at the Bristol Renaissance Faire stating that we, the performers, should all try to come up with something new for our Faire characters, I came across this task. I grabbed onto the idea immediately. I decora...
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I carried a foil-shiny box emblazoned with somewhat psychedelic block letters that read "Suggestion" as I carried it or "Suggestions" when deployed at my desk or table. I garnered suggestions from passers-by, co-workers and friends and family. I t...
Thank god. For a while this task was languishing in the limbo between being on the front page and actually being active.
I was distressed. If I were more artistic I would probably be driven to creating poetry based on my experiences.
Alas, I am not.