Welcome mat spanning the entire floor of this Handan elevator. To what extent does walking on a welcome mat imply some form of social contract? …
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Whilst the team has traveled across time zones to be here, in many ways our journey starts here in the hot bustling haze of today’s …
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This corner of Mishuku, fairly close to my home where the taxi driver’s pull up their rigs, take a pee in the nearby pubic lavatory, …
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The practice of wandering through a neighbourhood – in this case Tokyo’s Shimo Kitazawa en mass and picking up litter. Common enough in Japan, sometimes …
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Why doesn’t this say “Customers First. Chat“? In what contexts is chatter with customers likely to be encouraged? Perhaps a local small town grocery store …
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Red dye from Mumbai above, blood from slaughtered sheep from Urumqi, below. The traces/bi-products of activities, the social acceptability of those activities, the extent to …
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Empty can placed in the sweeper’s pan – in the bottom right of this photo. Objects and their associated actions that legitimise otherwise anti-social behaviours.
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The grab, clutch, bird and snap. Subtle local nuances are making it tricky to sense which variant of tha’ shake to use when. By the end …
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A tangible reminder of expected social norms for receiving and making phone calls in this space – the SAS lounge Copenhagen. The booth plays at …
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A late walk through a rather sizeable local park in an effort to stretch my legs. By 10:30pm the remaining visitors are families checking out …
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