safe space

metaphorical walk trough my self-created environment

you get lost and then you come back home

What makes a place a home?

investigation

What makes a blank space my home?

self portrait
Or
Who I claim to be

How I would like to be perceived
How I like to present myself
Who I would like to be

What objects say about you
Or
What objects say about your understanding of your self

You present who you are
Or
You present the social category you feel you belong
You make u

„In our culture, individuals are to great extent
what they claim to be,

Even
When these claims
Are, by some sober sociological reckoning,

implausible.“

Grant McCracken, Culture and Consumption



What do I claim to be?

"Objects can be seen as the blank slates upon which we project our needs, desires, ideas and values. As such, material culture contains a wealth of information about who we are, who we want to be."
- K. Kris Hirst

"(...) the less tangible was grounded in the more tangible."
- Daniel Miller

design objects - participative objects

redefintion

how do you make the objects your own? or why are they already your own?

question of participating objects

categories
. bought
. bought and redefined
. second-hand bought
. found
. harmonized

more than function

participation

When I moved here I brought two bags of belongings. Mostly clothes, some objects that felt important to me,
People were laughing about
What do you need it for?

But when I arrived
there was. This
Empty space

That I could not fill with my bags
I didn’t have enough
How does home feel?
Obviously not like the place I moved in

How would I appropriate it
I started collecting.
Buying
Finding and collecting.
I started surrounding me with objects again
Objects that felt like home
Objects with whom I could fill this white hole.
Is that so

Who were they
And what did they give me

I filled it with all I could find
Desperately trying
Building up this pile of what
Making it full again
Full of possession. Not possession
But the embodiment of something I had not
Working against the emptiness

Objects that I don’t need
But somehow need
Not for living
But for what they stand for
For their association

Safe space

I needed to recreate this concept of my life
That I had left
I thought I’d go away and realize that I don’t need the objects that I filled my home with
That I’d come back pure
Cleaned
Freed

But I have to face the fact
That I am afraid of letting go
Of the objects
Of the concept of life they stand for
Of the concept that I imagined my life to be
A concept of life that is objects

What is my life when not the manifestation of objects?
There has to be something
Something not physical
Why is it so hard What is left when there are no objects?

They are warm to me
Giving me footing
Security
Would the association


What would it need to



You ask if it helped?
Well
Yes
Yes and no. I think at first yes
they helped me a while
Covering the fact
That I just don’t belong here
That this is no space for me


They cannot replace what’s not there
company
Interaction
Exchange
Energy
Between people

In the end I still
I have to move
Will I have to bring them with me?
Do I need them in a place that already feels like home?
Is it more than replacement?

What is it?

sharing your materiality with someone

transformation of every day objects into -home?

walk didn't stop - where is it going?

rhythm

movement?

video

walk along the objects - to the rhythm of my thoughts

next step: understanding my objects by getting in touch