According to the Law of Conservation of Energy, matter can neither be created nor destroyed.
Value, although it does matter, is not matter.
We can create value, or destroy it, with anything we want. We could create value with an idea, a popular song, a fashion label, or even something as mundane as a Post-It note.
And that is precisely what our instructors tasked us with achieving: in one hour create “value” just by using our creativity and some yellow sticky notes.
After tossing around a few ideas our group set out and wound up at UF’s Writing on the Wall project. This is a project where students can paint hurtful names they have been called onto cinderblocks. These blocks are then stacked to create a wall of slurs and curse words which are torn down to symbolically tear down “barriers between us.”
As I stared at these words, I couldn’t help but think that although this may help people to express their frustration it wasn’t really doing much to stop it.
That is where the “Speak No Evil” campaign was born.
After people wrote those words on the blocks we wanted them to pledge that they would do their part to stop this cycle of hate. We set up our sticky notes in between the two halves of the wall and asked passersby to either sign their name on one or even write a hurtful word, or two, that they would pledge not to say to others.
Some people got pretty creative and the videos can be found on YouTube.
Overall, I feel that our group did a good job of creating value with the notes.
If even one person left our wall and thought twice before calling out a curse word at someone then our campaign was a success in my eyes.
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