=====Making things speak for themselves=====

Notes from a session during the [[luminous_green_notes|luminous green workshop 31st July 2008]] 

==== Session participants ====
(your name here)

==== Towards a Luminous Green ====
  * if objects could speak for themselves we could/should...
    * be able to make more informed decisions ("truth" made accessible - providing the objects don't lie.)
    * give a voice to the oppressed objects
=== How? ===
  * Actor-Network theory as a first mapping in design process...
  * Ethnography as applied/situated research
  * Design Noir methodology. representing the outsider as 'a predictor' of the future 

=== Examples ===
  * Objects that 'tell' stories, or are part of a larger story
    * 'NEWater' in singapore. purified waste water, not so popular, used mainly for cleaning now.
    * French wine sold in USA have labels telling the story of the wine/winery. This is assumed to be tacit knowledge in France.
  * 'Milk Project' some reflection on a networked backstory. Dutch cheese from latvian milk.
  * '[[:Feral Trade]]' autonomous exchange network based on social relations and parasitic transport.

==== References ====
  * Hutton
  * Dunne & Ruby