I’ve become more and more frustrated over the past few years with how we communicate with others. Social networking has had a huge impact on the way we speak with people and interact in positive and negative ways. I’ve been recently thinking of all the ways we cannot express ourselves over the internet. Here is part of an ongoing project I’m working on about physically interacting with others.
After reading some of the articles assigned for my class this week about youth and prisons, I thought it would be appropriate to mention Books for Prisoners programs. This doesn’t necessarily address the root problems, but it certainly is a great way to volunteer and work with other people devoted to change. I usually participate at Inside Books located in Austin, TX when I go home, but here is a nation wide map that shows all of the project’s locations where you could possibly volunteer.
Prison Book Project is a local one here in Amherst, MA. Unfortunately, according to their website, they are closed until the Fall of 2009. I encourage people to keep updated on volunteering.
challenging the ‘common sense’ of the unspoken expectations of how a given space is used. Space provides a context for our behavior, but we also have a say in how our behavior creates space.