This made me smile, and I hope it will make you smile too!
Kacie Kinzer came up with the idea... she's an Art student so naturally the descrption is rather wordy (I used to have to phrase things that way too)... but the general idea is she wanted to see how people would interact with objects in their surroundings.
She created "tweenbots" - small, cardboard-covered robots which can only travel forwards at one speed and have a flag indicating their destination. The experiment she devised was to see how long it would take before the tweenbot was damaged by someone on a journey from the northeast to the southwest corner of Central Park in NYC.
To her surprise, no one person damaged the tweenbot. In fact, 29 people in total picked up the little guy when he got stuck in a pothole or was heading in the wrong direction and set him back on track. One person even picked him up and turned him in the opposite direction, saying "You can't go that way, it's towards the road."
In a world where we're led to believe that everyone is out for themselves and that people knowingly damage other people's property just because they can, this shows that it isn't always true.
It would be interesting to see what would happen if they tried this in Hyde Park - I think much the same result would occur!
All rights belong to Kacie Kinzer.
Tweenbots
Kacie Kinzer came up with the idea... she's an Art student so naturally the descrption is rather wordy (I used to have to phrase things that way too)... but the general idea is she wanted to see how people would interact with objects in their surroundings.
She created "tweenbots" - small, cardboard-covered robots which can only travel forwards at one speed and have a flag indicating their destination. The experiment she devised was to see how long it would take before the tweenbot was damaged by someone on a journey from the northeast to the southwest corner of Central Park in NYC.
To her surprise, no one person damaged the tweenbot. In fact, 29 people in total picked up the little guy when he got stuck in a pothole or was heading in the wrong direction and set him back on track. One person even picked him up and turned him in the opposite direction, saying "You can't go that way, it's towards the road."
In a world where we're led to believe that everyone is out for themselves and that people knowingly damage other people's property just because they can, this shows that it isn't always true.
It would be interesting to see what would happen if they tried this in Hyde Park - I think much the same result would occur!
All rights belong to Kacie Kinzer.
Tweenbots
1 comment:
The knack, I suppose, is trying to stay amongst the people who did the good deeds!
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