Notes from a session during the luminous green workshop 31st July 2008

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• 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

• 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

• 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.

• Hutton
• Dunne & Ruby