correlating + collecting:
a navigation of life events through collecting
This project looks at using Design Anthropology as an approach to map the relationships between people, their collections, and their “everyday life events”.
The project studies how collections of ordinary everyday objects can be used to examine and highlight
ordinary or extraordinary life events. It focuses on visually translating and correlating collections into
meaningful markers for time, memories and our shifting relationships to people and places.
correlating + collecting encourages others to use their collections and their collecting process to tease out and reflect upon ordinary life events which have become coupled to the objects within their collections.
The prototyped method “creating a map of your collection” provides a guide for people to follow the process which my research and my creative practice arrived at during the course of the project.
MA (Graphics) Design:
February 2021, Outstanding Distinction (100P)
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Bleichmar, D., & Mancall, P. C. (2013). Collecting across cultures: Material exchanges in the early modern Atlantic world. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Blom, P. (2004). To have and to hold: An intimate history of collectors and collecting. New York: Overlook Pr.
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Cross, N. (1982). Designerly ways of knowing. Design Studies, 3(4), 221-227. doi:10.1016/0142-694x(82)90040-0
Dexter, L. (2015). Magnificent obsessions: The artist as collector. London: Barbican Art Gallery.
Dudley, S. (2012). Narrating Objects, Collecting Stories: Essays in honour of Professor Susan M. Pearce. Abingdon: Routledge.
Dyck, I. (2005). Feminist geography, the ‘everyday’, and local–global relations: Hidden spaces of place-making. The Canadian Geographer, 49(3).
Elsner, J., & Cardinal, R. (1997). The cultures of collecting. London, UK: Reaktion Books.
Fréquence Moderne. (2020, June 29). Le temps et sa mesure [Audio blog post]. Retrieved 2020, from https://culture-2000.lepodcast.fr/le-temps-et-sa-mesure
Filmer-Court, C. (2020, January 17). Pulp Culture’s collection of beer mats are “a graphic designer and type nerd’s dream” (Chris Bolton) [Web log post]. Retrieved November 10, 2020, from https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/pulp-culture-beer-mat-collection-graphic-design-170120
Gali, A. (2017). On collecting: Documents on contemporary crafts. Stuttgart: Arnoldsche.
Gladwell, M. (Writer). (2020, June 18). Revisionist History/Dragon Psychology 101 [Radio series episode].
Gunn, W., Otto, T., & Smith, R. C. (2018). Design anthropology: Theory and practice. London: Bloomsbury.
Holmes, H., & Hall, S. M. (2020). Mundane methods: Innovative ways to research the everyday. Manchester, UK, UK: Manchester University Press.
Jungnickel, K., & Hjorth, L. (2014). Methodological entanglements in the field: Methods, transitions and transmissions. Visual Studies, 29(2), 136-145. doi:10.1080/1472586x.2014.887263
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Marechal, G. (2009). Autoethnography.
Baudrillard, J. (1997). The cultures of collecting (1171837554 878627111 J. Elsner & 1171837555 878627111 R. Cardinal, Authors). London, UK: Reaktion Books.
Bleichmar, D., & Mancall, P. C. (2013). Collecting across cultures: Material exchanges in the early modern Atlantic world. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Blom, P. (2004). To have and to hold: An intimate history of collectors and collecting. New York: Overlook Pr.
Bonini, M., Lal, S., & Orly, N. (2020, December 05). Embodying Archives: On Practice, Memory and Art Objects. Retrieved December 05, 2020, from https://fb.watch/3ly7oQ8aHi/
Chon, H., & Sim, J. (2019). From design thinking to design knowing: An educational perspective. Art, Design & Communication in Higher Education, 18(2), 187-200. doi:10.1386/adch_00006_1
Collectors & collections. (1977). London: British Museum Publications.
Cross, N. (1982). Designerly ways of knowing. Design Studies, 3(4), 221-227. doi:10.1016/0142-694x(82)90040-0
Dexter, L. (2015). Magnificent obsessions: The artist as collector. London: Barbican Art Gallery.
Dudley, S. (2012). Narrating Objects, Collecting Stories: Essays in honour of Professor Susan M. Pearce. Abingdon: Routledge.
Dyck, I. (2005). Feminist geography, the ‘everyday’, and local–global relations: Hidden spaces of place-making. The Canadian Geographer, 49(3).
Elsner, J., & Cardinal, R. (1997). The cultures of collecting. London, UK: Reaktion Books.
Fréquence Moderne. (2020, June 29). Le temps et sa mesure [Audio blog post]. Retrieved 2020, from https://culture-2000.lepodcast.fr/le-temps-et-sa-mesure
Filmer-Court, C. (2020, January 17). Pulp Culture’s collection of beer mats are “a graphic designer and type nerd’s dream” (Chris Bolton) [Web log post]. Retrieved November 10, 2020, from https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/pulp-culture-beer-mat-collection-graphic-design-170120
Gali, A. (2017). On collecting: Documents on contemporary crafts. Stuttgart: Arnoldsche.
Gladwell, M. (Writer). (2020, June 18). Revisionist History/Dragon Psychology 101 [Radio series episode].
Gunn, W., Otto, T., & Smith, R. C. (2018). Design anthropology: Theory and practice. London: Bloomsbury.
Holmes, H., & Hall, S. M. (2020). Mundane methods: Innovative ways to research the everyday. Manchester, UK, UK: Manchester University Press.
Jungnickel, K., & Hjorth, L. (2014). Methodological entanglements in the field: Methods, transitions and transmissions. Visual Studies, 29(2), 136-145. doi:10.1080/1472586x.2014.887263
Le Monde (Director). (2019, February 24). Pourquoi le nord magnétique bouge-t-il ? [Video file]. Retrieved 2020, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHmUrwjufPA
Marechal, G. (2009). Autoethnography.
Miller, D. (2009). Anthropology and the individual: A material culture perspective. Oxford: Berg.
Miller, D. (2015). The comfort of things. Cambridge: Polity.
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Ortved, J. (2019, August 20). The 10 Most Valuable U.S. Stamps [Web log post]. Retrieved from https://www.history.com/news/10-most-valuable-stamps-in-american-history
Oyama, Y. (n.d.). Collectors. Retrieved January 30, 2021, from https://yukaoyama.com/project/collectors/
Page, R., & John, K. (2019). Commercializing Academic Medical Research: The Role of the Translational Designer. The Design Journal, 22(5), 687-705. doi:10.1080/14606925.2019.1629776
Pickering, A. (2012). Material Culture and the Dance of Agency. Oxford Handbooks Online. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199218714.013.0007
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Stewart, S. (2012). On Longing. UK: Duke University Press.
Sudjic, D. (2009). The language of things: Understanding the world of desirable objects. New York: W. W. Norton & Company.
Sudjic, D. (2015). Collecting. In B is for Bauhaus (pp. 98-120). London: Penguin Books.
Symbols, Abbreviations and Terms used on paper Charts [PDF]. (2019, February). Brest: SHOM.
T. (2019). Annual Report for the Year 2018–2019 (pp. 43-47, Rep.). The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Von Scherler Mayer, D. (Director). (1995). Party girl [Motion picture on Sreaming Website (Amazon Prime)]. United States: First Look Pictures.
Yanagi, S. (2019). The Beauty of Everyday Things. Place of publication not identified: PENGUIN Books.
Yee, L. (2015). Magnificent obsessions: The artist as collector. Munich: Prestel.
Ortved, J. (2019, August 20). The 10 Most Valuable U.S. Stamps [Web log post]. Retrieved from https://www.history.com/news/10-most-valuable-stamps-in-american-history
Oyama, Y. (n.d.). Collectors. Retrieved January 30, 2021, from https://yukaoyama.com/project/collectors/
Page, R., & John, K. (2019). Commercializing Academic Medical Research: The Role of the Translational Designer. The Design Journal, 22(5), 687-705. doi:10.1080/14606925.2019.1629776
Pickering, A. (2012). Material Culture and the Dance of Agency. Oxford Handbooks Online. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199218714.013.0007
Pink, S. (2014). Digital–visual–sensory-design anthropology: Ethnography, imagination and intervention. Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, 13(4), 412-427. doi:10.1177/1474022214542353
Springgay, S., & Truman, S. E. (2016). Stone Walks: Inhuman animacies and queer archives of feeling. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 38(6), 851-863. doi:10.1080/01596306.2016.1226777
Stewart, S. (2012). On Longing. UK: Duke University Press.
Sudjic, D. (2009). The language of things: Understanding the world of desirable objects. New York: W. W. Norton & Company.
Sudjic, D. (2015). Collecting. In B is for Bauhaus (pp. 98-120). London: Penguin Books.
Symbols, Abbreviations and Terms used on paper Charts [PDF]. (2019, February). Brest: SHOM.
T. (2019). Annual Report for the Year 2018–2019 (pp. 43-47, Rep.). The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Von Scherler Mayer, D. (Director). (1995). Party girl [Motion picture on Sreaming Website (Amazon Prime)]. United States: First Look Pictures.
Yanagi, S. (2019). The Beauty of Everyday Things. Place of publication not identified: PENGUIN Books.
Yee, L. (2015). Magnificent obsessions: The artist as collector. Munich: Prestel.
