Lunch 18: Everyday
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Author: Michael Schaefer-Friedman, Benjamin Jacobs, Sofia Kuspan Sophie Maffie, Sam Rosner, and Margaret Saunders
For most, the everyday is not spectacular, provocative, or fiery and it can be particularly difficult capture. It may be easy to brush aside as unimportant or banal, especially as countless alerts of thrilling global events imply our own doings are mild and humble. This iteration of LUNCH dwells in this everyday space and looks closely to find the spectacular hiding in plain sight. LUNCH 18 is divided into four sections: Artifacts, Ritual, Overlooked, and Questioning.The everyday contains the quiet fabric of our lives, our routines,and the familiar places where we work, live, and study. Thereliable infrastructures that tether our world together melt into the background, while the norms and practices that give shape to our social ecosystems may pass by unquestioned. Days blur together and become forgotten; days are spent waiting for the spectacular to save us from boredom.But everyday is fragile. Moments of excitement, trauma, and displacement punctuate the continuum. What comes afterward is different. The river narrows and quickens, deepens and slows. The landscape of the everyday floods, inundating familiar landmarks and overwriting the ground itself, creating a new topography on which we rebuild. We mark the highwater line and carry on.The four sections arose from inherent tensionsbetween the contributions, highlighting the richness and complexity of the everyday. Ritual focuses on the act of returning, while Artifacts reexamines that which is left behind. Overlooked inspects visibility and commonness. Questioning seeks to reframe our relationships to both physical space and ideas.
ISBN 9781961856899. Applied Research & Design. pb. 268 pages. 25 x 18 cm.
not yet published
For most, the everyday is not spectacular, provocative, or fiery and it can be particularly difficult capture. It may be easy to brush aside as unimportant or banal, especially as countless alerts of thrilling global events imply our own doings are mild and humble. This iteration of LUNCH dwells in this everyday space and looks closely to find the spectacular hiding in plain sight. LUNCH 18 is divided into four sections: Artifacts, Ritual, Overlooked, and Questioning.The everyday contains the quiet fabric of our lives, our routines,and the familiar places where we work, live, and study. Thereliable infrastructures that tether our world together melt into the background, while the norms and practices that give shape to our social ecosystems may pass by unquestioned. Days blur together and become forgotten; days are spent waiting for the spectacular to save us from boredom.But everyday is fragile. Moments of excitement, trauma, and displacement punctuate the continuum. What comes afterward is different. The river narrows and quickens, deepens and slows. The landscape of the everyday floods, inundating familiar landmarks and overwriting the ground itself, creating a new topography on which we rebuild. We mark the highwater line and carry on.The four sections arose from inherent tensionsbetween the contributions, highlighting the richness and complexity of the everyday. Ritual focuses on the act of returning, while Artifacts reexamines that which is left behind. Overlooked inspects visibility and commonness. Questioning seeks to reframe our relationships to both physical space and ideas.
ISBN 9781961856899. Applied Research & Design. pb. 268 pages. 25 x 18 cm.
not yet published