Archives of the Overheard (and other stories)

Lead Researcher: Ben Hooker

Student Researchers: Maxwell Chen, Adit Dhanushkodi, Maya Friedman, Yuwen Lin

Thoughts becomes sounds, utterances, sentences. What’s said is heard and interpreted – not by people, but by listening structures and systems with electronic reasoning. Everything is logged. Words become physical, crystalize around frameworks, self-organize into architectural form. Within these environments, certain Power Words trigger movement, transformation. We should speak carefully. What will we do?

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FRIENDS OF FRIENDS OF FRIENDS Ben Hooker, Shona Kitchen

Friends of Friends is a research project which investigates new forms collective experience. After a series of general investigations we focused on the ubiquitous parking…

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