Scott Braun
TheDecencyProject.jpg

The Decency Project

 

The Decency Project

The Decency Project ranges from intimate dialog to group conversation to performative demonstrations and sometimes even collaborative performance. In all cases, finding connection and community through shared labor is at the core. What does it mean to be human? If I am human, what does that mean I should do, and not do? How do we define decency and shame? Come carve a spoon with me and find answers together. At least more questions. Or maybe just a way to feed each other.

The project began in the controversy surrounding the existence of the Robert E. Lee monument in Richmond, VA. The first participants were invited from the Richmond City Republican Committee, local gun rights organizations, and protestors surrounding the monument. It has since traveled to 15 states across the USA, with plans to expand internationally. The participants have also expanded to address local conditions: a women’s march and counter-protestors in Philadelphia, immigrant populations in New York (with interpreters), quantum theorists, physicists, and engineers at the Colorado School of Mines, and C-Suite executives to further incorporate issues of economic structure to the conversation.

Scott Braun and The Decency Project are featured in Season 1, Episode 1 of documentary series The Line (That Divides Us), by Small Batch Films. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFclAnzknh0