What the project may collect
- Your request and selected category
- An optional public name or alias and broad location
- An optional email address
- Your consent choices, submission time, and administrative record
A worldwide participatory public-art project
What is it that
you require?
If there’s anything you need, come to Sevown. Share a request and contribute to a growing portrait of what people around the world say they require.
Participation is free. This is an art and research project, not a request-fulfillment, professional-advice, funding, government, or emergency service. A request may inform aggregated research and future creative works; direct quotation or public attribution depends on the choices you make below.
The installation
Individual requests.
A collective record.
- 01
You contribute
State something you require—from the practical to the personal, social, creative, or civic. Do not include sensitive or confidential information.
- 02
Sevown interprets
Requests may be reviewed, categorized, compared, summarized, and interpreted to identify shared themes and emerging patterns.
- 03
The work develops
De-identified themes may inform aggregated research, creative works, exhibitions, publications, and future public initiatives. Direct use follows your selected permissions.
Privacy by design
Private by default.
Participation by choice.
Sevown & Associates LLC operates the Sevown Request Board. Your identifying information will not be publicly displayed unless you separately choose attributed display. Removing a name does not always make a distinctive story unidentifiable, so submissions selected for public use should also receive human review and redaction.
Do not submit
- Confidential information, trade secrets, or material you lack permission to share
- Medical histories, diagnoses, financial-account details, passwords, government identifiers, or precise addresses
- Emergencies, threats, self-harm, abuse reports, or immediate safety matters
- Illegal, defamatory, exploitative, infringing, or unlawfully obtained content
- Information identifying another person without their permission
Need urgent help? Do not use this project. Contact 911 or the appropriate emergency or crisis service where you are located.
Participate
Make your
request known.
Write plainly. Your request does not need to be polished, but it should not contain sensitive information.
- Operator
- Sevown & Associates LLC
- Project
- Sevown Request Board
- Participation
- Free · Adults age 18 and older
- Default display
- Not publicly quoted or attributed
Privacy and participation notice
How a request enters the work.
This notice describes the intended project design. Confirm the stated retention periods, technical practices, and legal terms with qualified privacy counsel before collecting real submissions worldwide.
Project purpose
The Request Board gathers and interprets requests as participatory public art. Submissions may inform thematic analysis, aggregated research, creative works, exhibitions, publications, and future public initiatives according to the permissions selected.
No fulfillment promise
Submitting is free. “Consideration” means potential receipt and review for project purposes. It does not promise assistance, acceptance, investigation, funding, referral, response, performance, confidentiality, or any particular outcome.
Information collected
The project may collect the request, category, optional public name or alias, broad location, optional email, consent selections, submission time, and related administrative records. Hosting systems may also create ordinary security logs.
Identity and display
Identifying details are not publicly displayed by default. Direct quotation and attribution depend on the participant’s display choice. Because a distinctive narrative can remain identifiable after names are removed, public selections should be reviewed and redacted before use.
Analysis and AI
Human reviewers and automated tools, potentially including artificial intelligence, may assist with screening, categorization, summarization, translation, and theme identification. A human should review material before it is directly published or exhibited.
Storage and providers
Information may be processed and stored in the United States using contracted hosting, security, communications, analytics, and project-administration providers. Access should be limited to people and providers who need it to operate the project.
Retention
Raw submissions and consent records may be retained for up to three years after submission. Optional contact information may be retained for up to two years unless permission is withdrawn sooner. Published, anonymized, or aggregated outputs may be retained as part of the permanent creative record.
Withdrawal and deletion
Participants may request access, correction, deletion, or withdrawal of optional permissions by emailing sevown@sevown.com. Requests can be honored for retained source records, but removal may be impossible after material has been anonymized, aggregated, printed, exhibited, or incorporated into a completed work.
No sale of submissions
The project will not sell participants’ personal information or individual submissions. This does not prevent publication, exhibition, licensing, or distribution of project works created within the permissions participants grant.
Adults only
Participation is limited to people age 18 or older. Do not submit information about a minor or on behalf of another person unless a separately documented process expressly authorizes it.
Safety and prohibited content
The project is not monitored for emergencies. Do not submit sensitive records, immediate safety matters, unlawful content, private third-party information, or material that infringes another person’s rights. Prohibited material may be removed without notice.
Independent operator
The Sevown Request Board is operated by Sevown & Associates LLC. It is a private participatory art project—not a government agency, court, public authority, public utility, emergency service, charity, grantmaker, lender, or licensed professional practice.