In the essay Codeswitch: The Transborder Immigrant Tool by Amy Sara Carroll in the book Somatic Engagement, Petra Kuppers, Editor, Caroll describes her collaboration with Micha Cardenas, Ricardo Dominguez, Elle Mehrmand, and Brett Stalbaum to create the Transborder Immigrant Tool (TBT), a device that uploads poems onto cell phones that provide coordinates to survive the treacherous border crossing between the U.S. and Mexico leading people to safety sites. Her collaborators have dubbed it "engaged poetics" as paraliterary and a G.P.S. as a "global poetic system." "Mary Pat Brady describes the US-Mexico border as a 'state-sponsored aesthetic project.'" In response to TBT, Carroll has received hate mail and death threats.
Carroll states,"TBT is a wager that we must codeswitch in the face of the enjambed politcsaestheticsethics of everyday US and Mexican anti-education, anti-research, anti LGBTQ, anti-immigrant, anti-Latin!, anti-Muslim...sentiments, masquerading as public policy.
Candy Chang’s Ted Talk shows how a provocative question can stimulate people’s hopes and dreams and create a common ground simply by asking people to publicly share what they would want to do before they die. The question was originally posted on a house in New Orleans and then provided people space to fill in the blank with their chalked responses. The popularity of the project blossomed into kits for others to create their own wish list at other sites globally. You can check out her other projects here.
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