*Process - How empty are your pockets of power? / Design Research

Kings, queens, and jacks all shielded by their garments and jewels. Surrounded by exotic objects and paintings of themselves, beautiful, to remind them of their power

People own objects and these objects hold power other people lack objects and this lack creates a desire

There is power in desire and there is desire of power

Can this correlation be eliminated Do peoples objects of power create a desire in someone else Does power leave a person when their objects are stripped of them

Are you deserving of power without using your power to deserve?

If all of your objects are taken from you, placed in a bag. A bag big enough for your cars and your land. A bag figurative enough for your knowledge in degrees and ideas. A bag taken and hung above your head out of reach. Are you emptied of power?

If another person put his objects of power in the same bag who becomes the owner? Is there equality? Or is equality accepted?

And then at the end you have to figure amongst yourselves who is deserving of this bag. How are you deserving of your power when you have no power to argue with.

<aside> 📄 This experiment is intended to raise questions about how people associate feelings of power through their possessions. To see if the stripping of their objects ignites a desire to regain possession and how far this desire will make them go. To start a conversation on how we live with power hierarchies and are the ways to live outside of them.

The dynamics was similar for all the participants (Fig 302-303). A personal invitation (Fig 300), to bring a personal selection of their belonging objects (Fig 304-305) that they considered more powerful by theirselves and located them in a common space (Fig 301), as an act of getting detach (Fig 306-308) from them. A conversation started (Fig 309), who deserves to leave the room with the box were all the objects are gathered? What kind of strategies did they try to build and what kind of relations were built between the players? (Fig 310-312)

Are the rules brought to the context fair enough or what about breaking them? What are the consequences? What about if everyone, at the end, decides to behave against them, is that what the role of joker bring to a playing cards setting? to real life? (Fig 313-314)

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