This project's main objective is to 'un-design' ownership.

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Finding a piece of clothing in my closet that isn't mine, borrowing a lighter and never returning it. A series of experiments intentionally creating situations in which ownership falls through the cracks of its rigid legal status and existence, and can demonstrate its fragile state. The intention is to question and play with its meaning, applications and boundaries.

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Different ways to own something-

Scottish speer throwing tradition

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If I borrow something from someone and with time, we both forget to return it to its righteous owner, who owns it then?

Collecting, borrowing items from people until they become mine:

a lighter

a zine from my course coordinator

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Taking pictures of people's belongings

'Owing it'

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Making items communal

I embark on this journey and attempt to 'redesign' trust by reinforcing faith while constructing a system of rules relying on reciprocity.

The series of experiments aim to make specific items communal. The shared aspect of items in this project follow the same principle, as stated on the signs next to them: they are free to anyone who needs them, but whoever takes one should return a similar product for someone else to use in the future.

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This practice generates a system of communal 'capital', fluctuating in value and reserve temporarily, yet the idea is to return to it and maintain it as stock through time. It presuposes a cycle of constant circulation, dispersion and agglomeration. With this movement values of products quite literally travel along with people in their daily lives, only to return to the communal fund and once again be redistributed.

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The project concludes in a zine; a collection and record of findings during these weeks of experimentation as well as observed over a longer period of time to determine its attunement, absorption or survival in its ecosystem.