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the everyday

‘the everydayis the most universal and the most unique,the most social and the most individuated,

the most obvious and the best hidden.’

henri lefebvre, 1987

the everydayexists below the threshold of the noticed

and is everywhere and nowhere at the same time.

georges perec, species of spaces, 1974

the everydayis all the stuff in the world.

what is stuff?

if the everydayis the realm of the unnoticed and the

overlooked, however, it might be asked just how we can attend to it?

how do we drag the everyday into view?

why should we wish to investigate the everyday in the first place and bring it into view?

referring back toThe banal

The quotidianThe obvious

The commonThe ordinary

The background noiseThe habitual

how do we speak of these common things, to track them down, to flush them out …how to give them meaning, a tongue, to let them, finally, speak of what it is,

who we are.

georges perec, species of spaces, 1974

to understand the effects of history (technology) on our private lives?

thingstuffthingstuffthingstuffthingsstuff

the everydayis the site of a fundamental ambiquity:

It is both where we become alienated and where we can realize our creativity.It is a place where repetition and creativity confront each other.

maurice blanchot, l’homme de la rue, 1992

+evidence

+evidencea thing or things helpful in forming a conclusion.

something indicative.an outward sign.

everyday+evidence

+evidence

can be evidentcan be suggestivecan be predictive

can be a starting point.

mind mapping

types of evidence

howard ursuliak

robert frank

robert frank

walker evans

walker evans

georges seurat

jeff wall

helio melo

ticker tape

angela grauerholz

http://www.atworkandplay.ca/

In the first place, it doesn’t have any conversation. It’s full of animals and plants and insects going on with their own business, but there’s nothing that

beautiful evidenceedward r. tufte, 1990

EAUTIFULEVIDENCE

stephen holdaway

hannah fitzgerald-kearns

brenda lee

kathryn glasgow

jess morris

sarah kong

charmaine williams

emma zivkovic

matt mccallam

brodie campbell

brodie campbell

lana raharhui

olivia penn

extension B

the body is man’s first and most natural instrument. or more accurately, not to speak of instruments,

man’s first and foremost technical object, and at the same time technical means,

is the body.

Marcel Mauss, Techniques of the Body. Economy and Society 2:1 (1973):75.

technics:the realization of a technical object in

the experience of the object itself.

b.steigler, the ister, 2004

knowledge of the body

m.jackson, 1983.

+techniques of the body

marcel mauss, 1975

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