Listening In
2019-2020
Listening In
Washington State Department of Transportation Capital Campus in Olympia, Washington
PARTNERS
Washington State Department of Transportation
Smart Growth America
Art Place America
National Endowment for the Arts
Washington State Department of Transportation Capital Campus in Olympia, Washington
PARTNERS
Washington State Department of Transportation
FUNDERS
Art Place America
National Endowment for the Arts
Over the course of six months, we conducted four hundred hours of interviews and research with WSDOT staff across the state. Between multimodal regional tours and conference room marathons, a narrative emerged to help us understand the human ethos at the core of a statewide transportation agency. The shared language of WSDOT employees — questions, phrases, frustrations, desires, definitions — provoke a candid consideration for each other and the environment we move around in. A curated selection of sound bytes were hand-lettered and installed at the artist-office-studio-gallery at the WSDOT Headquarters.
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