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Wish and Make it happen
We’re in the season of wishing. A year ago, I Wish This Was began in New Orleans by Candy Chang and was inspired by vacant storefronts. There are a lot of them where Candy lives in New Orleans. Imagine being able to voice what we want, where we want it? Imagine insprine something we think is beyond us to reach?
“Combining street art and urban planning, Candy created fill-in-the-blank stickers that say “I wish this was ____.” With support from the Ethnographic Terminalia exhibit, she placed boxes of free stickers in businesses around the city and posted grids of blank stickers and a permanent marker on vacant storefronts to invite passersby to write their thoughts. The stickers are vinyl and they can be easily removed without damaging property. Responses ranged from the functional to the poetic: I wish this was… a butcher shop, a community garden, a bike rack, an affordable farmer’s market, a Chinese restaurant, a place to sit and talk, Brad Pitt’s house, real soul food, a dancing school, full of nymphomaniacs with PhDs, Heaven. It’s a fun, low-barrier tool to provide civic input onsite, and the responses reflect the hopes, dreams, and colorful imaginations of different neighborhoods.”
Reading more about Candy we come to find out she’s a pretty cool chic. Chang is an artist, designer, and urban planner who makes cities more comfortable for people. As a 2011-2012 TED Senior Fellow and a 2011 Tulane/Rockefeller Foundation Urban Innovation Fellow, she has been recognized as a leader in developing new strategies for rethinking the design of our cities and how to live our best lives. It’s great to see someone reflecting on communication other than a palm device.
The project has now traveled around the world. The stickers are available for international purchase online. Orders can also be made to accommodate requests for stickers in other languages, through the online shop (bulk orders only). 
P.S. A note to those concerned about the subjunctive mood (I wish this was / I wish this were)
2010, Vinyl stickers, 4.5″ x 3″. New Orleans, LA. Exhibited in Ethnographic Terminalia at DuMois Gallery.
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