Transportation Divination
Facilitation Tool, Transportation Dialogue
PARTNERS
Washington State Department of Transportation
Smart Growth America
Art Place America
National Endowment for the Arts
72-card deck, box, booklet
PARTNERS
Washington State Department of Transportation
FUNDERS
Art Place America
National Endowment for the Arts
The Transportation Divination Deck was produced as a tool to understand and inhabit the conversational nature of transportation work. It was created using excerpts from agency-wide interviews with employees at the Washington State Department of Transportation and images of the identifying landmarks of each maintenance region. The seventy-eight card deck functions as a portrait of a statewide agency, a strategy for creative evaluation, and conversational divination.
- Excerpted from the instruction manual:
At the Washington State Department of Transportation, they call this “imaginary future world looking.” This is a great way to explore possibilities and outcomes as they relate to a question or topic. Shuffle the cards for a few moments and clear your headspace. Think of a question, write it down, and place it in the middle of the table. Cut the deck into four piles and evenly space around the question like a compass rose. Flip over the top card of each pile. Journal your responses or discuss with a colleague. Think radically about how the phrases relate to each other and how they illustrate creative and new ways to address the unknowns.
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We are committed to making visible the undercurrents and overtures of the working world around us. Our projects live at the intersection of creative production and social engagement, building futures from neighbor-to-neighbor dialogue, civic sharing, and bright-eyed perspectives.
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