a blob, a snap : A materialized revolt against the patriarchal structure, against everything women are being told to endure

• Main Author: Agnes, Asker
• Format: Others
• Language: English
• Published: Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för design (DE) 2019
• Subjects: practice based research; feminism; poetry; care; willful objects; autoethnography; design; konstnärlig research; skapande; patriarkala strukturer; Design
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-87510

This is a personal project about a fed-up woman who sits down on the chair by the pottery wheel simply because she craves it. It is about conducting a non-result oriented design process. A process where the making, the closeness between the mind and hand, is both the research and mediation. It is a project that acknowledges the potential care has in relation to design, while it's dealing with the controversial aspects of a woman caring for herself. The project is a snap, a feminist snap, represented and materialized through the objects of clay. Where a collapsed bowl, a blob, becomes a materialized revolt against everything women are being told to endure. It is a project that brings design and poetry together. Aiming to explore how objects can gain agency and be in dialogue with society. How objects can materialize both the resistance against, and the result of, the patriarchal structure.