What
happens when a product meets people? what is the relationship between
designer, product and user? Can I by intervening make visible
systems, and structures? In this project, I reflect on my role as a
designer and place myself in the social context I design for. Through
site-specific interventions at Konstfack University of arts, Crafts
and Design, I stage different relationships between myself, the
building, users, products and spatialities in the building. In one of
the student kitchens I work on site with prototyping of lamps and
study how they are used and what spontaneous conversations and
reactions I get. I open a space under a staircase in one of the
students' project rooms by modifying an inspection door, furnishing
the room and spreading the "secret" within my class. In the
corridor I´m showing pipe drainage from the employees' kitchens
through a hole in the wall. The installation conducts the flow of
water through a translucent tube while amplifying the sounds of the
flow. Reactions on my actions are captured in documentary comics. Im
inspired by the concept “correspondence” coined by the
anthropologist Tim Ingold. The concept deals with how we relate and
correspond to each other and our environment. Closely related to this
is the concept of feedback loops as described in system theory.
