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Think of a hand-knitted pullover, worn by a peasant woman from the Italian Alps each day for work during more than two decades. Or picture a huge residential block built in the 1980ies which houses about 8000 people. Think of a Billy-shelf, a brass nutcracker, an iphone, an orange plastic colander, a boeing 747, or ‘that dress’ featured 1994 by a british actress on a red-carpet-event, ...
A thing, any thing, can be regarded as a process rather than as a static, finished entity, having a life history or biography of its own. We, as consumers and makers of things are inevitably part of these biographies. As objects undoubtedly are part of our biographies.
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usage consumption collection
annexation adoption appropriation reinterpretation
aging of material - to wear out
to season =
to grow old, to grow old artificially, to put spices
in and out
quality - qualities
object = subject-matter
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We would like to invite you to join our sunday-afternoon-discussion with and about people and things. The idea of this event is to get an insight in practical aspects of dealing with objects and material as processes. We have therefore invited people who approaching objects and/or material in ways that we would like to investigate, discuss and share with others.
