Abstract
This paper describes a workshop activity intended to cultivate attention to bod-ies and care. Constructed as a card-deck, the “Objects of Care” activity prompts its players to look more closely at the objects in their lives, notice signs of care in those objects and re-think their relationships with said objects. We believe the card deck, based on the interactions we’ve had with it thus far, offers a few insights for prompting attention to bodily interactions by focusing on the way they manifest in textiles. This tended to have the effect of prompting people to take time with the old and “gross” and see them as rich historical artifacts, a kind of archaeology of the body constructed through the marks and smells it left on textiles.
Keywords
care, noticing, card deck, deep looking
DOI
https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2022.440
Citation
de Koninck, S., and Devendorf, L. (2022) Objects of care, in Lockton, D., Lenzi, S., Hekkert, P., Oak, A., Sádaba, J., Lloyd, P. (eds.), DRS2022: Bilbao, 25 June - 3 July, Bilbao, Spain. https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2022.440
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This paper describes a workshop activity intended to cultivate attention to bod-ies and care. Constructed as a card-deck, the “Objects of Care” activity prompts its players to look more closely at the objects in their lives, notice signs of care in those objects and re-think their relationships with said objects. We believe the card deck, based on the interactions we’ve had with it thus far, offers a few insights for prompting attention to bodily interactions by focusing on the way they manifest in textiles. This tended to have the effect of prompting people to take time with the old and “gross” and see them as rich historical artifacts, a kind of archaeology of the body constructed through the marks and smells it left on textiles.