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.