How to Improve the World

Talking of new books, I've been looking for a suitable artifact our respective communities could use to begin some cross-cultural creative collaboration and yesterday happened across this book. I bought two copies for the knock down price of £10. It's a spiral bound sketchbook full of blank pages but it was the cover that caught my eye. I presume, since I bought it in the Royal Festival Hall, that it's part of the promotional material for an exhibition at The Hayward Gallery. I think the artwork is by Bob and Roberta Smith (the typeface is quite distinctive) who, you may not know, is actually one man who specialises in these kinds of text based messages. Anyway, I thought that maybe if I sent one of the books to Angel and kept one here, we could begin to fill them with ideas, drawings, photographs and dreams about "How to Improve the World", maybe just focusing on our own communities to begin with. The books could be passed around for a while and ownership of the book, even for a short period, would confer special status and a unique responsibility on the incumbent (see The Gift). Then perhaps we could swap books and compare notes, so to speak. What do you think?