It’s summer now, things are at least trying to slow down a bit—maybe we’ll have some time to reflect.

Those of us who have been producing the weekly films for this column are going to take a break from that for a few weeks. Instead, I’ll be doing some written posts during the summer—sharing some of our thinking as we move forward with WhoWeAm.

Last night we had a feedback session where we showed some of the films we’ve been posting to a group that came together for one of the Design Conversation evenings at the Windup Space—which I highly recommend. It seemed that people were engaging with the films and understanding enough of what we were trying to do to offer some great thoughts. For example, we heard that the word “culture” is not really workable. It has too much baggage. It’s confusing. For one thing, people start thinking about “high culture” versus “low culture” which is really not an issue we focus on. Despite the language problem, people easily latched on to the idea that a media project that asks all of us to pause and think about who we are and who we want to be is timely right now. It’s in the air. After all, it seems we’ve tried everything else. We’re encouraged to be seeing evidence of a shift toward this kind of thinking in lots of places lately. More on that later.
We have ideas about where we’d like to go with our project, but would also like to continue to hear from you.

What would you do with a project called WhoWeAm? What do you think it’s about?