Constructing Agency — [makeshift][johannroy]

CONTEXT

An exploration into how self-agency can be facilitated engaging with a sole activity in which participants assign new roles to already existing objects

It is a sort of exercise book—to exercise and practice the ability to enact on one’s Self-Agency. To keep it in use regularly so it can be translated when it may be required in bigger picture moments.

It serves as a reminder that we as humans have the ability and significance to affect our surroundings and govern our own lives and impart our style into it.

RESEARCH

participants engaging with the task:

extended explanation of the workshop:here

prior research that lead to Constructing Agency:here

SKILLS/PROCESS

publication design
book making

RESOURCE

Grapefruit Yuko Ono

Robert Morris: Bodyspacemotionthings

Oblique Strategies Brian Eno

Making Do and Getting By Richard Wentworth

Life, a user's manual by Georges Perec

Poetics of spaces by Gaston Bachelard

[projects that both informed and aided in executing this project]

March//2025<—>April//2025

:HOW ENGAGEMENT WITH ACTIVITIES AFFECT ONES SELF-AGENCY

Constructing Agency

is the title of a workshop conducted, as a form of primary research collection, for the research question of ”how can engaging with activities affect self-agency”.

two key parts which were:

engaging with a sole activity with no overlap of activities
assigning roles onto existing objects.

participants were provided a table filled with both objects that already had uses and objects that had no use. They were then asked to make any variation[even hypothetical] of the three items:incense holder, lamp, seating.

the objects were documented and formed into a publication—an exercise book that aids people in
taking agency to create their own versions of objects.

Objects made by the participants

[INCENSE]

[LAMP]

[SEATING]

[click to open]

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