Care Where You Give: Effective Altruism – A proposal for an exhibition on effective altruism in Penn Station, New York City

This proposal is for an exhibition on effective altruism in Penn Station, New York City. Effective altruism is the philosophy that a person should do the most good one can, often through donating primarily money or time to causes that are the best at getting aid to the people who need the most help. This exhibition will be a takeover guerrilla-style social movement campaign called Care Where You Give and will utilize unconventional graphics throughout the station, a variety of social media platforms, and built structures in the main concourse to convey the message and goal of effective altruism to all audience members. While this exhibition will be designed to be accessible for all visitors, the focus audience group is young professionals in their twenties and thirties. Multi-lingual opportunities and accessibility to convey the message of effective altruism is vital to this exhibition. The main content structures of the exhibition will focus on some key charities that have proven to be highly effective in helping people in the United States and around the world. The exhibition will give the visitors the tools within the exhibition to engage with future opportunities to donate resources to a cause that resonates with them. The goal of this exhibition is to spur visitors to examine the organizations to who they donate. At the end of the day, when visitors leave Penn Station they should stop and thin before the next time they donate, and care where they give.

Author

• Kearney, Michelle

Language

• en

Keyword

• effective altruism
• social design
• altruism
• public art
• charity
• art installation

Date created

• 2016

Type of Work

• Master's Thesis

License

• All rights reserved

Rights statement

• In Copyright

GW Unit

• Corcoran School of Arts and Design

Degree

• M.A.

Advisor

• Brown, Clare

Persistent URL

•  https://scholarspace.library.gwu.edu/etd/k930bx209