The Career of an Object

TAoN No. 89: Close observation of things — and their unpredictable biographies. PLUS: A new missing word, and more.

I have an ongoing interest in paying attention — arguably too much attention — to objects. (More here and here, and that’s just for starters.) And once a year I teach a workshop on writing about objects as part of the SVA Design Research program’s summer intensive.

While this involves close observation of a physical object, it also entails paying attent…