Comments on: Post-it Notes for Neighbors

By: ANA foreign student

ANA foreign student — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 11:13:07 +0000

This artistic intervention on the public realm is home to the civic spirit of a society committed to positive change of their environment.
Under the law of the jungle, completely unprotected, visitors, students and immigrants as well as some Spanish citizens, are victims of speculation and exorbitant rents in Barcelona city.
Vanity town is rotten from the inside; many people are living without dignity. Look on the Internet (loquo.com) so you know what you have to pay here for anything in return. Find, visit and enter the interior of the rental apartments / chambers -”pisos” – and discover how people live this “fashion city”. Conceited and pretentious cities like Barcelona should take a lesson from this.
I invite you to critically confront the city in which I live.

By: Scriptopolis

Scriptopolis — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 12:42:35 +0000

This is amazing. Exactly what ‘public space – or citizenship – 2.0′ should be.

By: Jesse Shapins

Jesse Shapins — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 12:45:43 +0000

One of my favorite things about this project is the low-tech materiality. I think we can so easily get swept up today with the technological possibilities for urban communication and media arts, that the technical dimension supersedes the fundamental social and conceptual elements of a project. Not to say that we shouldn’t be doing all these great things today with iPhones, Twitter, etc. And, of course, I’m a fan of such projects as Yellow Arrow. But I think there is something crucial to be gained from continuing to develop low-tech projects to stay in touch with the primary objectives of such work. I wonder if even for us urban media design professionals and educators, if there isn’t a step in the creative process for these types of projects that we try to formalize where we force ourselves to beta test an idea by implementing it without using any digital technology first?

By: Alec Appelbaum

Alec Appelbaum — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:02:16 +0000

The bygone Yellow Arrow let people post yellow arrow-shaped stickers with unique numbered codes at places they considered important. When you dialed an SMS number and entered the code, you got an explanation of why the (rocking horse, parking meter, doorway) meant so much to one of your neighbors. Twitter can provide the platform for something similar.