Alex Aguilar - Roof on Fire

1. Content

It is a roof performance of inter city teenagers articulating their thoughts in about 100 cars where the audience may listen but not speak or interject. This allows the natural dialogue of teenagers to open up.

2. Form

The medium is a parking structure with cars serving as small island showcases strewn throughout. The technique was to have a specific group of students handle complex questions like dealing with drug abuse, how the economy provides the backgrounds for their social context.

3. Context

The setting is in 1994 I think where branching out to minority groups like African Americans and Latinos. Their voices were to bring stark attention to how media represents them and how they see themselves and cast light on their struggles and thoughtful problem solving

4. Stakeholders

People within the city or outside of that socio economic group. Adults, mainly looking at a younger generation of minorities.

5. Audience Engaged

This was for the public or white middle class, for media in general. Adults, teachers, anyone that views them with distorted stereotypes

6 Engagement Strategies

The stakeholders had there way of opening up dialogue via the options they had in their cards, and loosely based their arguments from it. They'd have the audience then give their own reflections based on the conversations in interview.

7. Resources

Tangible would be the parking lot and the cars used to have the open dialogue. They'd use the news as a way to project their voice. They staged it on a 7-story lot.

8. Goal

To get people to realize that these people can think critically and argue reasonably when given the chance to open up about those subjects. To get people to listen, question popular media or news, and reflect on high level dialogue with this group.

9. Outcomes

Seems like a lot of the people from the outside were able to reflect themselves onto the students and found that they had more similarities that it seemed, and how they struggle on many similar levels as most do without any form of validation. A lot of the teenagers had a mixed bag about what they can and can't change out of their society.

10. Values

Setting up reasonable grounds for students or teenagers to grow can create a stage where those that had troubled backgrounds can communicate at a higher level and feel accomplished or understood for doing so.