Putting the project in perspective

key question:

How do the physical collaborations we enact in the every day connect us to each other & to larger social systems?

Can drawing attention to small, universal collaborations between strangers(?) via artistic tools & environments create awareness of & investment in collective experience?

Personal, emotional & intimate intervention, via interpersonal means, with impacts on individual conceptualization of group membership & global change via seeding ideas into the minds of people who have some impact on the intellectual conversation around social design & policy?

Now -> Next -> Future

the existing conditions (in the US) of disconnectedness, hyper-individualist thought, apathy towards the systems to which we contribute, ennui, a sense of helplessness, facelessness of the larger system, a lack of emotional connection to the larger group (Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities)

simultaneous atomization & connectivity

next: 

bring people into emotional attentional contact with the mechanisms of the social systems that keep us together

future: 

people can act more often personally with an understanding & regard for the larger scales of their social effect, 

an intimate emotional awareness of the connectivity that exists & act with regard to it in order to better

physical analogues of social interactions, a series of designed meetings. 

1 + 1

1=1

1=1=1=1=1

addition creates difference, no longer merely

1

and

1

but

1 + 1

addition is more than the sum of its parts, it is

1

and

PLUS

and

1

and

implying change

and

a solution

and

a before and after--

the phrase 1+1 implies

EQUALS

and

2

___________________

i have a hunch

that love is non-linear,

inexplicable

& that the whys

are not applicable