02 June 2009
‘The world is square, borders are square, land is square, street blocks and houses are square, gardens are square, doors and windows are square, trees are square, furniture is square, cars are square, my computer is square, tiles are square, the table is square, my locker is square, my glasses are square, systems are square, THINKING IS SQUARE.’
This text is about minding the squareness and, in a small way, try to make the world a bit less ridged with people’s own take on things, situations and systems. Try to play with flexibility, change of objects, use of materials and systems of behaviour. The experiment and the effect plays an important role in trying to figure out where a project leads.
Let the things, people and the behaviour that surrounds you attract your attention. The reaction on this inspiration can be a comment or a playful approach to not only raise awareness but to find, on a small personal scale, a solution. This project is a way of working that helps to keep looking at the world around you clearly to be idealist, and to care for things that matter.
An inspiring approach is the one of Zaphod Beeblebrox in Douglas Adams, ‘Hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy’ is appealingly because of its charm, risk and randomness:
‘I don’t know what I’m looking for.’ ‘Why not?’ ‘Because … because … I think it might be because if I knew I wouldn’t be able to look for them.’
