Technological advancement, inbuilt obsolescence, fashion, trends and social changes inhibit the relationships between objects and our interaction with them being extended to their fullest. It is these limitations that are the cause of generating excess consumption, waste and the breakdown of attachment between objects and their users, resulting in a scenario where we limit an objects value as much as they limit us having the ability to do so. Through the act of experimentation with the emotional attachments users have with objects with a specific focus on surfaces, this project will focus on emotional value as a method of reducing waste, sustaining a narrative and ultimately extending an objects life and worth.
abstract
Limited Life is a focus on filling voids that have been created through a hyper-stimulated existence, a high tech throw-away culture of mass consumption and waste production. What has been lost or replaced by having a number of "friends", "like"-ing something and the creation of virtual existence? Are we craving the basics of human need; contact, connections and empathy, to experience with anyone, anything? Perhaps it is this culture that has led to how we see objects in our lives, as a quick fixes, fleeting romances and emotionally inert.
printed matter
Evelin Kasikov - beautiful hand made books, they work on their own and as a collection.
Craft is a starting place, a set of possibilities.
It avoids absolutes, certainties, over-robust definitions, solace.
Craft is a starting place, a set of possibilities.
It avoids absolutes, certainties, over-robust definitions, solace.
It offers places, interstices, where objects and people meet.
It is unstable, contingent.
It is about experience.
It is about desire.
It can be beautiful.
— Edmund de Waal
Information Is Beautiful - breaking through the mundane pie and bar charts these graphic representations of information, be it technical or more of a social context, show how visuals are important when trying to engage an audience.
Rethink Scholarship Book - playful and engaging.
Rethink Scholarship Book - playful and engaging.
Project Swap - Sha Haker
experiments
1. paper table. a table is covered with a large blank canvas and during an evening of interaction those gathered around the table use pens to express, reflect and explain.
findings: the canvas was covered in scribblings that generally followed the participants conversations. marks also show where people were sitting, how close to others and hints as to what they were doing (potato skin smudges, tomato sauce spills...etc).
2. Pliable doorway. a doorway is fitted with a malleable curtain to observe and track movement through the space.
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1. paper table. a table is covered with a large blank canvas and during an evening of interaction those gathered around the table use pens to express, reflect and explain.
findings: the canvas was covered in scribblings that generally followed the participants conversations. marks also show where people were sitting, how close to others and hints as to what they were doing (potato skin smudges, tomato sauce spills...etc).
2. Pliable doorway. a doorway is fitted with a malleable curtain to observe and track movement through the space.
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