Army of researchers needed to investigate mystery object?

An artist wants to recruit an army of researchers to investigate a mystery object as part of a unique mass participatory event in UCL's main quad. Internationally renowned artist Joshua Sofaer wants staff from across the university to get involved in his interactive project Object Retrieval: You are the Routemaster , which takes place in October. The project will see an object from UCL's Museums & Collections become the focus of intense scrutiny for a week. Sofaer said: 'We want to get as many UCL staff as possible involved in this project and we are totally open as to who they might be or how they might approach it. Its direction and outcome depends on their participation, insight and imagination.' Researchers from the arts and sciences will investigate the object from every conceivable perspective for 24 hours a day for seven days. Their input will create a complex network of information about the object, which will be on display in an adapted Routemaster bus in the main quad from Thursday 15 October to Wednesday 21 October. Contributions may take any number of forms including writing something about the object; being ed by the artist; phoning a colleague in San Francisco who will know about the object; sampling the object and imaging it with a scanning electron microscope; visiting the British Museum archives to gather valuable background data; translating a rare document from Hindi to English and so on.