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Projection 2: Week 2
Studio practices and experiments Feedback In the past week, I’ve reached out to three practitioners / researchers to discuss my current projects. They are Shannon Mattern, Matthew Chrislip and Rebecca. Here’s some of the key feedback. Clarify and Deepen the Inquiry Common thread: All three emphasised the need to clearly articulate the core inquiry and…
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Projection 2: Reference
World in a Box: Cardboard Media and the Geographic Imagination Some of my favourite quotes: There was comfort in this ritual — or at least familiarity, which passes for comfort in difficult times. The smarrow points the way forward. The comfort and familiarity of convenience — endless resources at our fingertips, summoned by a tap on a…
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Projection 2: reflection on audience engagement
Audience interaction has been essential to the evolution of this project. What started as a solo inquiry into the afterlives of discarded corrugated cardboard has transformed into a participatory system of circulation, speculation, and storytelling. By reintroducing used shipping boxes into the postal network as postcards, the project invites audiences to engage not merely as…
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Projection 1: Week 7
1 Line of enquiry How can the visual and physical properties of discarded corrugated cardboard boxes offer a more nuanced understanding of the distribution system? By sending and receiving postcards made from these discarded boxes, how might I generate alternative knowledge of this system? 2 Project proposal Corrugated cardboard, a primary packaging material, is often…
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Projection 1: Week 5
1 Line of enquiry How can examining discarded cardboard boxes and their visual and physical properties offer a more nuanced understanding of the distribution system behind them? How can labelling discarded cardboard boxes offer a more legible narrative into the distributed system behind them? 2 Project proposal This project turns the box into the subject…
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Projection 1: Week 3
As I realised that I enjoyed investigating these boxes’ journeys by examining the type of cardboard, shipping labels, and other visual properties, I decided to ditch the idea of workshops and start collecting discarded from other people and examining them myself. Line of enquiry How can collecting and examining people’s cardboard boxes, along with their…
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Projection 1: Week 1-2
I wrote the first version of my proposal based on the rules of the Conditional Design Workbook. I’d like to engage my audience by hosting workshops. Ideally, the workshops will enable participants to see their discarded cardboard boxes in a different light. However, one feedback I received from the tutorial group was that the workshop’s…
