based on — Cindi Katz — Geography & Environmental Psychology
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Sit in front of the object - — 2 —
Address the object directly - — 3 —
Ask the following questions:
What do people do with you?
Where did you live?
Where and when were you manufactured?
Where do your parts come from?
What have you observed/experienced?
What’s the best and worst, saddest and happiest things you conveyed?
What secrets do you know? - — 4 —
To document: record the answers.
Cindi Katz is currently a Professor of Geography at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her work concerns social reproduction and the production of space, place and nature; childhood and social insecurity; and the consequences of global economic restructuring for everyday life. (2017)
See Cindi’s OBJECT AMERICA I talk
cindikatz.ws.gc.cuny.edu
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