 We met working for a national artist project called StoryCorps, and we met listening to people. We had decided together to embark on this investigation of exploring stories at home, and the Laundromat project gave us the timeline to do that and to push us to produce those stories within a matter of months. It was our first installation with the project that became Housing as a Human Right. And Core to Housing as a Human Right is about connecting diverse communities around housing, land, and the dignity of a place to call home. So the idea was always that we would be able to bring stories together from people that sort of maybe look different or seem different who are all connected by what we perceive as a universal aspiration for home. We went to South Africa in 2010 and engaged in a process of building with about between 40 and 60 different individuals and community-based organizations and social movements throughout the townships in South Africa. And with that we went to our friends at Nomadic Wax and we created this, I don't know how long it is, like an hour? Yeah, an hour long mixtape. And it's just anecdotes and sound bites and bits of people from around the world kind of sharing their story. Everyone has a right. The Philadelphia Residency was a collaboration between the Lodgerab Project Asian Arts Initiative and the Visual Artist Network. And it was really fascinating because it was our first experiment to try to do a lot of interviews in other languages and try that out, you know, which has its own challenges. The real joy of it was creating these town hall meetings where we were able to share stories that we had recorded in New York and in South Africa and other places and it was really kind of a rich discussion that had a really positive impact on the trajectory of the project and hopefully the experience for people who came. We had also been involved in sort of the Occupy Movement and the growth of that network and so, you know, we're creators and artists but we were also, you know, organizers instead of bringing that to bear to either help collaborate in organizing community or organizing other cultural workers. So right after the storm there wasn't really anyone organizing other people that were going out and shooting and a lot of what we wanted to do is to create a hub where these stories could live and we called it Storyline, Sandy Storyline, partly because we had created an actual storyline that people could call to record their stories and started inviting people to text in their cell phone images and then within like two weeks started a website where people could upload their story and their images and their video. It's been interesting doing Sandy Storyline, you know, every couple weeks we get an email from someone that says, I love what you're doing, how do I do this in my community? Following hurricanes, floods, like, you name it, like after something happens somewhere in the world, someone sends an email. And so we're really trying to develop our platform so that it can be redeployed for any community that wants to share stories, particularly after a crisis. So we're developing Storyline, which we're hoping will be this suite of tools that communities can use to tell stories and engage their community members. The biggest thing, it sounds corny to say, but it's all about listening. And I think that's like the fundamental lesson that we are constantly relearning is how to actively listen and how to listen with deep understanding and deep intention. So we're trying to figure out how we can use these sort of values of listening and participation and justice and equity. How can we build that into sort of a website platform that can support that style of storytelling? With an open question, we'll see how it goes.