This urban intervention elevating the voices of Fairview is a project of Anchorage Design Week, in partnership with the Anchorage Museum and NeighborWorks Alaska. The Fairview Wishing Well intends to catalyze interactions between neighbors through this interactive installation. In closely connected communities, neighbors depend on each other for support of their needs and dreams.

Fairviewers write their wishes onto wish panels and place them in the well. They are encouraged to make tangible wishes that someone from the community could fulfill. These can be immediate needs or things they have always dreamed of doing. They will have the opportunity to put their contact so that a fulfiller can contact them.

The wishes can be as simple as someone to walk their dog or as dreamy as getting a flight tour of the Glenn Alps. Neighbors and visitors to the well can read the wishes and learn more about the needs and dreams of the community. Individuals can choose to fulfill a wish. To do so they would take the wish panel and use it to connect with the Fairviewer.