Trying to stray away from the use of technology I wanted to do something involving the old tradition of writing letters. Even though my own experience of writing letters wasn't a great success I thought that this shouldn't stop me. One idea that I had was setting up a desk against a wall with a chair in front. On the desk I would offer people free paper, envelopes, stamps and supply them with a pen to write with. Once they had written the letter to the person of their choice I would offer to deliver the letter at the end of the week. The only condition being that they had to scan the letter before enclosing it and posting it through the postbox on the wall that the desk was up against. On the opposite side of this wall would be a plastic see through box collecting the letters and above this would be a screen displaying the scanned letters. I was curious to know just how open people would write when they knew that their letter was about to be shown. I would also be interested to see if people accepted this offer to write a letter if I was supplying them with the materials. And the knock on effect of displaying written letters, would this make people also want to participate and would it open them up to the lost art of letter writing? Could I bring back an old form of communication?
We also had the idea of making two postboxes and attaching them together by the letterbox, inside would be a table and chair and the equipment needed to write a letter. By changing the distance you would get replies faster, would people enjoy sitting down to write? Also with the two people not being able to see each other would they care that they were talking to a stranger?
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