Friday, December 2, 2011

Introducing some jokers

I got inspired by how Ande introduced a flexible thinking by constantly flipping a problem, as if it carries a multitude of dimensions.
I have been thinking of a tool to help us remember this chance of space, in this case created by spatial elements and varied Sami thinking. I have sketched it as a spinning lottery, slightly inspired by the urban slot machine of K. Easterling and the Norwegian gambling game 'lotto'. Spinning it could generate lines of new juxtapositions. A game of thoughts.

“A joker is a little fool who is different from everyone else. He’s not a club, diamond, heart, or spade. He’s not an eight or a nine, a king or a jack. He is an outsider. He is placed in the same pack as the other cards, but he doesn’t belong there. Therefore, he can be removed without anybody missing him.”
Jostein Gaarder, The Solitaire Mystery

By virtue of being an outsider you are to show yourself different from what is already there. It could make one concious of the already existing. The elements from 'outside' could be seen as jokers. The jokers are never fixed in the context.


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