Brief
Self-Directed 01
What makes cleaning so human?
Self-Directed 01
What makes cleaning so human?
Project name
About cleaning
About cleaning
Processes
Screen-printing, Digital printing, Bookbinding
Screen-printing, Digital printing, Bookbinding
Duration
5 weeks (2019)
5 weeks (2019)
Aim
To investigate the process of cleaning a space and the underlying human characteristics it represents.
To investigate the process of cleaning a space and the underlying human characteristics it represents.
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In this project I conducted various experiments, from filming people cleaning their own rooms to setting up a space for people to clean within university.
The challenge was to ‘activate’ these findings and integrate them into engaging outcomes.
The challenge was to ‘activate’ these findings and integrate them into engaging outcomes.
Cleaning is an inherent part of daily life. It is a highly personal instrument that is tightly intertwined with our habits and unconscious tendencies.
The project centres around investigations and observing the act of cleaning in parallel with the act of being human through 3 different mechanisms: Speak, Human , and Objects.
Speak originated from the thought of cleaning as a primarily solitary and private act.
Human [Behaviour] explores the thought of cleaning being a personal and unique act to each individual.
Objects [Vestige] looks at the act of cleaning from a slightly different angle: from the tools and objects that surround
the act.
The project is accompanied by a set of typeface inspired by salt crystabls used in one of the investigations.
