Social Objects at Doors

Alex will represent the Social Objects project at Doors of Perception conference in India.

Our interest is to develop tools and practices that would make the consumption of locally-produced and second-hand objects socially attractive on the web. In the Social Objects project we collaborate with local artists, public institutions and technology developers in order to study and conceptualize new ways in which locally produced goods, art, design, and craft can mediate and generate social relations between people on the web.

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[vt]

Jee, nice. :)

I've been thinking of this stupid scenario involving a pair of shoes, uniquely-identified somehow, which are taken to a shoemaker for repair.

During and after the act of repair, the shoemaker-repairer blogs about the shoes and the act of repair, making her craft visible and giving the possibility to converse about the act of repair too, and adding an entry to the spimic history of the pair of shoes.

Structured blogging (or data blogging) is given a totally new meaning when it's not anymore about creating blog posts but creating a "shoe fix", or something like that.

Just a thought.. :)

[Leighton]

Sounds like a great project.