<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # An audience is not a lesser class of people... > An audience is not a lesser class of people waiting to be elevated by a platform. It is a field of latent authorship containing experience, local knowledge, professional skill, memory, and questions that become socially valuable when people learn how to give them form. The designer's task is to reveal and cultivate that capacity without pretending every contribution is already complete. **Source:** [[livestreams/From Audience to Author — Building Tools for Participatory Publishing - Workbook|From Audience to Author — Building Tools for Participatory Publishing]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “An audience is not a lesser class of people waiting to be elevated by a platform. It is a field of latent authorship containing experience, local knowledge, professional skill, memory, and questions that become socially valuable when people learn how to give them form. The designer's task is to reveal and cultivate that capacity without pretending every contribution is already complete.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotes/quotes-audience-lesser-class-contribution-already-complete ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->