This project can easily find its way into my IP. The prompt in the video to my anonymous poem writers was “Write me poem. Then leave it with me. Then be on with your day. Start it with either: My mother always or my mother never”.

To shape this concept to the research I have been conducting about Ann Arbor history I can begin to drop the typewriter in different locations around Ann Arbor, asking the public to tell me about a memory of that place. It would begin to reach into the past while bringing a physical object like a typewriter (also outdated object) by asking people to reflect on their memory.

I’m thinking about collective memory here..how to excavate the memories of others to learn about a place. What can historical information teach us about the way we interact with place/each other in the present? What can it do to reflect more publicly about the past?