Objective Design Jegan Vincent de Paul

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Displacing Domesticity

Displacing Domesticity is currently developed as the first of a series of critical conceptual projects that examine the relationship of the North American household to its occupants. The project is rooted in personal experiences and discoveries as well in contemporary cultural theories and texts produced on the theme of domesticity.

Households exist as private spaces in which individuality is cultivated through the process of embracing mass-produced objects as personally meaningful. The self-proclaimed social sovereignty of the domestic space allows personal objects to exist unconnected to economic and political realities.

Displacing Domesticity considers the broad ecology of object-relations and questions the contemporary phenomenon of removing the industrial, urban, and market referents from domestic environments. In this project, domestic objects are negated of their allocated locations within the home and physically displaced into public and urban spaces; the objects are translated from being useful and personal into a system of public signs.

Street Light/Fan – Domestic Object, Public Infrastructure

Street Light/Fan is one of a number of projects where electronic and mechanical household appliances are plugged into public infrastructural systems such as street lights, traffic signals and transformers. The relationship of the appliance to urban space, location, and scale are primary considerations. Street Light/Fan is situated between a Sunoco gasoline station and the MIT Museum, within the boundaries of MIT’s explicitly industrial landscape.

This is a beginner’s prototype for insulated and light weight concrete blocks for building construction. A foam block embedded within an envelope of standard cement mix and cured.

This was an attempt to generate foamed (and thus lightweight) concrete using ‘Great Stuff’ - a compressed foaming agent - mixed in with standard cement mix. The resulting compound material, sadly, wasn’t ‘great stuff’.

OBJECT: Motor/Pump device of some sort to assist ordinary humans to achieve mechanical task.

ORIGIN: Planet Earth, MIT Department of Civil Engineering, Materials Testing Lab.

CONDITION: standard corrosion, peeling paint, highly used. Out of service.

COMPOSITION: metal casing, with wire and magnetic interior.

CONSUMERIST VALUE: none, typically unappealing to mass consumer markets.

APPEARANCE: Machine aesthetic, highly valued by MECHE types.

ANTHROPOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE: empty signifier for any projected meaning.

USE FOR KRYPTON: For display in the Museum of Weird and Wonderful Earthly Artifacts.

OBJECT DISMANTLED

INDIVIDUAL COMPONENTS

SOME DETAILS