Dress like a tourist day

Where I work in central London, the streets are full of tourists and busy office workers, in roughly equal quantities. The office workers and tourists are instantly distinguishable from each other by their clothes and behaviour. The tourists are somewhat oblivious to the office workers, who for them form part of the background architecture of the city, and the office workers march around feeling superior to the dull cattle-like masses of tourists who gawp at red phone boxes and double-decker buses and don't know where they're going.

This idea then is based on the notion that adopting the outward appearance and behaviour of another group of people allows you to better appreciate their perspective and motivations. So, for one day a year, all the office workers would swap their smart clothes and purposeful marching for a tourist outfit of their choice and a slow, uncertain walking pace, looking around at every opportunity. London displays several distinct tourist 'uniforms', so, for example, Italian tourists are easily identifiable and are different from German tourists; Californian tourists are dressed differently from Japanese tourists - the office worker would be able to choose from any of the 'looks' on offer.

By doing this, the office worker may start to understand the perspective of the tourist and gain a renewed appreciation of the city in which they work, and an understanding of how it must look to one who had not visited it before.