This is a digital experiment from Boston College's Transformative Education Lab. Visitors answer up to three short questions, and each answer becomes a point of light connected to the reflections it resonates with.
The Transformative Education Lab at the Lynch School of Education and Human Development is a hub for research on holistic, formative human development, and the curation of educational approaches that both support young people's development as whole persons and prepare them to pursue purposeful lives.
The three questions here come from the lab's own words for formative education — wholeness, purpose, and community. More about the T-Lab.
Only what you type into the three boxes. No personal information. We keep a one-way hash of your IP address to limit spam, and a random id stored in your own browser so the piece knows which light is yours.
Everything published here is visible to everyone who visits, and can be read by anyone. Nothing is attributed to you, but please don't write anything you'd mind a stranger reading, and don't use other people's full names.
When you add a light you're given a short removal code. Keep it, and you can take your reflection down at any time by entering it on the take-it-down page.
The piece takes new reflections for one month. After that the sky stays readable but closes to new lights.
The reflections are kept after closing — they're the record of what this was. They stay visible unless someone asks for theirs to be removed.