Its not so much the manner in which society fuels change and design, but the very core of this which is the creative minds of the people who exist within it. Participatory design is a fascinating thing, there is no end to the current of information to draw from when you simply look at people, let alone have them participate in your design process. Take for example, a few snippets of my strange habit of observing people's exterior appearance on public transport (and furtively punching them into my notes application on my phone):
"A withered man's jowls hang sweetly. He sits with his knees together and looks furtively at me from behind his salty moustache. He is gone now."
"There's a little yellow duck plugged into her iPhone. Her jumper is navy knit with red hearts distorted at their edges into pixel-like blocks. An overstuffed, crumpled paper bag swings from the hand clutching the pink cased phone. A female tram driver barks the words "collins street" and the speakers crackle and sputter against her voice, static and warping"
"A crudely carved wooden heart rests against a milky collarbone. Short hair cropped into a bob as a fine liner is drawn out from a bag. Scrawls something onto hand's surface. Lucas pawpaw ointment, bright red against faded blue bag. Eggplant cardigan, thick fringe and stockings. More words scrawled in a tiny moleskin notebook"
All these deliciously random snippets of information are drawn simply by being aware, which parallels my constant need to look at things and their different facets, to quest for a knowledge that I do not yet have.
Maybe the underlying thought here is that I love to think, observe, and respond in a way that brings these things into tangible forms.
This desire to know, and the knowledge of the participatory process was
given to me by artist Jason Maling. I booked an appointment in his last participatory art project "The Vorticist", and still have my negative drawing from the experience. I remember coming away filled with this sense of awe at what I had read from previous appointments in the first compendium.
Check here for details on the project itself:
http://www.jasonmaling.com/fuguestate/index.php
He is currently taking appointments for his next project, which I will be on board for. I suppose this means that this is a lasting resonance, and that I'll never tire of trying to recognise the many facets of the human identity.
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