Designed by: Justin Hicks, Lindsay Senior, Scott McCormick
Built by: Justin Hicks, Lindsay Senior, Scott McCormick
Warm Cookies of The Revolution concluded a 4 year project with a giant art installation call This Machine has a Soul, taking over the backyard of a house in Denver’s Elyria-Swansea neighborhood. The goal of the project was to educate and promote the participatory budgeting process, which is the allocation of tax dollars towards programs suggested by and voted on by citizens. Through out the backyard were art installations, murals, and even a rebuilt ’53 Chevy. INCITE was invited to take over an empty shed and turn it into something new. We decided to create a mini museum dedicated to repeated history, or more so to those who did their best break history’s cycle. In the museum were informative displays, created with the help of Scott McCormick, speaking on patterns humans have fallen into time after time, and those who have stood up to break those cycles. Also, because our favorite part of museums is interactive displays, we added a bunch of switches, which if pressed in the right order, would light up the whole shed. In the end, Warm Cookies’ project was a success and participatory budgeting was adopted in the next budgeting cycle.
