Creating Confluences
My project proposes a personal, contemplative alternative understanding of socio-ecological relationships, through material cultures beyond economic frameworks from a socio-holistic lens drawing from human experience anchoring these social streams.
Our current scenario sees the expansion of material extraction and disposal whilst use further decreases. This project works towards a considered and extended use stage focusing on a reframing of linear consumptive models of a product’s life cycle and reimagining these as circularly evolving dynamic systems.
This system is made integrative and accessible through a cognisance tool two card decks, the object oracle, which looks to bridge the gap between individual and system and create correspondences between people and objects in a personal, contemplative alternative engagement presented as a reconsideration ritual.
To nurture slow flows, in which resource use is extended, I explored value transfers. Through object-oriented interviews, I understood that there were instances whereby the previous value was exchanged, extended or constructed to prolong the life cycle of the personal possession.
These acts of re (considered) value helped to recondition the object reinstating it with value. These moments not only give space to a moment of reconsideration of our current system but also allow us to react to it. These re-qualification’s build an emotional durability bringing together material logic and meaning.
Objects have become symbols of our society, the way in which we interact with them reflects the society we want to build today.
