Projects from Cathleen Gettkandt
name
Cathleen Gettkandt (cath_lehn)
country
germany
university
Burg Giebichenstein HS für Kunst und Design
department
Communication Design
university address
Neuwerk 7
06108 Halle Saale
university country
germany
url
id
0009011
title
Von Weiß bis Z
group members
–
professor(s)
Prof. Severin Wucher
rank
-
tags
year of making
2009
project url
uploaded
2010-02-14 03:29:47
Sweatshirts, jeans, books, wires and all the other things we use in daily life are the protagonists of the project „Von Weiß bis Z“. Ordnung ist das halbe Leben – A tidy house, a tidy mind. People love stability and clearness. We can only pay attention to something new, if we live in tidiness. But how do we define jumble? How can we sort metadata? In this project three systems of order were undergone for one week each and all search patterns were analysed by time, distance and stress felt. For this purpose all items of one room were inventoried and encoded. A large-sized poster is the result of this self-observation. The insight into a private quest for the most effective order should question organizing principles. How much time do you want to spend on an obviously higher quality of life and when will the pursuit of structure and total control prevail?
