Cartwheel Borderlines Project
Borderlines was a mass-participation digital art project about the invisible borders we cross as we go about our everyday lives.
On Sat 1st October 2011 we asked people a simple question about one of these imaginary borders; this is what they said.
Click on town names to show their messages
Messages, texts and/or tweets
About this project
Borderlines was a mass-participation digital art project about the invisible borders we cross as we go about our everyday lives. It was run by Cartwheel Arts' “Tell Us Another One” project in Oldham, Bury and Rochdale, from August to October 2011.
See photos and poems from the project on our 
Facebook Group. Why not join it?
See a short video about the project below (pop-up).
We also have a blog on 
Posterous, where some of the artists behind the project go into more detail about their inspirations and discoveries.
How it worked
In each town, we asked a different Big Question (the map above shows what the questions were). We stopped passers-by in the street on 1st October 2011, and asked them to send their answer by text message to a special phone number, or to Tweet it using the hashtag #blbury, #bloldham or #blrochdale. The results are all here on this site, as well as the results from workshops we ran in the lead-up to the project.
You can view the results from just one of the towns, by clicking on that town on the map above. Or, if you click “Advanced options”, you can filter answers by date and time; or by whether it was a 
text or a 
Tweet; or you can search by keyword, and see how many different people mentioned peace, or lions, or whatever you can think of!
Competition
The Borderlines project is now over, so you can't text or Tweet your answers to the questions any longer. But you can join in our writing competition, to create poems and stories based on the material that people sent us during the project. Click here to find out more [coming soon].
