22 Alexander Barina Robert Saat Felix Schaller Belonging deals with proximity and distance, to the people we surround ourselves with, to the spaces we want to inhabit, but also to thounsands of objects. Belonging, inclusion, and exclusion are social processes that constantly shift in form and must be negotiated both collectively and individually. From a design perspective, we are interested in how the collective and the individual can beintegrated into a creative process, and how this dichotomy of authorship might be overcome through design. For this, we wish to borrow a method from Surrealism, the Cadavre Exquis. The uniqueness of each individual merges into yet another unique whole. Still, the whole is not a randomly assembled mixture; interfaces must be discussed and defined, boundaries drawn or dissolved. For as much as we value the individual, it often makes sense to share desires and ideas (that is, resources). One is almost tempted to recall Alexandre Dumas’ oftenquoted phrase: „One for all, all for one.“ The aim of the workshop is the group creation of a cadavre exquis. The starting point will be unwanted or unsuitable objects from participants’ personal surroundings. Through continuous exchange and ongoing manual transformation, each author enriches the cadavre with new perspectives and expertise, while keeping in mind the connections to the other parts. With this method, we aim to explore how alienated objects can once again become desirable, by learning to see them through others’ eyes and by combining newly found perspectives in a collective creation.
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