yesterday's lecture was pretty awesome (: it's abt adding value to things.
the value of things by niel cummings & marysia lewandowska
to live in a morden city is to live in an enviroment descirbed by an astonishing arrary of things. Growing mountains of clothes, tools, gifts, souvenirs, art, electronic technology, and rubbish are piling up around us. these objects find their way into every cupboard, display case, shop, home, gallery, museum, magazine, computer mointer and landfill site. durrounded by a complex mesh of competiting 'productive narratives' that distpute ownership, contest interpretation, and disagree on value, these vast accumulations of objects from laptop computers to muesum exhibits are a powerful reflection of the kinds of societies and individuals we have become. because of the ability of material things to speak to us about who we are, there exsists a continous urge to control, classify and interpret them. In effect, we use objects as a sophisitcated means of making both ourselves and our world knowable.
so we went about adding value on a things, and did a fun collective (:
like, toilet roll! where by we passed an entire roll of toilet papaer round the lecturer theater, and everyone had to add some value onto it, be it writing, or drawing, or whatever they like (:
or
like, a tshirt! search you bags & wallets, to find inspiration, and have some input onto the shirt. just that if your name starts with these letters, it is where you should make your mark on the shirt.
a,b,c,d,e - collar
f,g,h,i,j - left sleeve
k,l,m,n - right sleeve
o,p,q,r - front
s,t,u,v - back
w,x,y,z - bottom
it turned out pretty cool, i stuck the rolling stone which we got from sunrise service, and there were duct tape, scotch tape, money, other currencies, reciepts, battery packs, staples, paper clips, sweets, stickers, name cards, buttons, drawings, wrappers, barcodes, someone even sewed! and someone else cut a hole.
haha. it was fun (:
and so you see the toilet roll and hang ten shirt has become more valuable in just one session.
the value of things by niel cummings & marysia lewandowska
to live in a morden city is to live in an enviroment descirbed by an astonishing arrary of things. Growing mountains of clothes, tools, gifts, souvenirs, art, electronic technology, and rubbish are piling up around us. these objects find their way into every cupboard, display case, shop, home, gallery, museum, magazine, computer mointer and landfill site. durrounded by a complex mesh of competiting 'productive narratives' that distpute ownership, contest interpretation, and disagree on value, these vast accumulations of objects from laptop computers to muesum exhibits are a powerful reflection of the kinds of societies and individuals we have become. because of the ability of material things to speak to us about who we are, there exsists a continous urge to control, classify and interpret them. In effect, we use objects as a sophisitcated means of making both ourselves and our world knowable.
so we went about adding value on a things, and did a fun collective (:
like, toilet roll! where by we passed an entire roll of toilet papaer round the lecturer theater, and everyone had to add some value onto it, be it writing, or drawing, or whatever they like (:
or
like, a tshirt! search you bags & wallets, to find inspiration, and have some input onto the shirt. just that if your name starts with these letters, it is where you should make your mark on the shirt.
a,b,c,d,e - collar
f,g,h,i,j - left sleeve
k,l,m,n - right sleeve
o,p,q,r - front
s,t,u,v - back
w,x,y,z - bottom
it turned out pretty cool, i stuck the rolling stone which we got from sunrise service, and there were duct tape, scotch tape, money, other currencies, reciepts, battery packs, staples, paper clips, sweets, stickers, name cards, buttons, drawings, wrappers, barcodes, someone even sewed! and someone else cut a hole.
haha. it was fun (:
and so you see the toilet roll and hang ten shirt has become more valuable in just one session.
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