This week in class we were given Post-It notes (about 400 to be exact) and asked to go around campus and create value with them. It was a pretty vague set of instuctions which cause me to WTF for a second. My first ideas were mostly radical: get naked and cover myself in post-its (glad to see someone did this!) and chase down a Turlington preacher and plaster him with Post-its. A few others may have toed the lines of legality (can you stick Post-It notes on private property?). Covering a wall entire with Post-It notes would would have been cool, although I wouldn’t have done it nearly as cool (and random) as this guy
Finally, like a couple other groups, ours decided to focus on raising awareness in the situation in Haiti. I think if anything this made the Post-it note exercise even more effective in a collective sense. While my group was post-it’ing messages on the Yulee walkway, others were in Turlington and elsewhere trying to raise awareness about the same thing. To a traveler on UF’s campus, the recurrence of this admittedly strange theme (post it notes and Haiti) would have definitely made an impact. As we’ve seen recently, when everyone converges to raise awareness, the results can be stunning. If anything there’s a good chance that this project did encourage some people on campus to donate to a humanitarian effort and that is pretty impressive. Seeing the ideas that I and others had I can definitely appreciate the kind of ingenuity you can come up with with just limited supplies in order to raise awareness for things, and hopefully I’ll be able to do that for Leonardo’s later this semester.
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