About The No Longer Object Project
We walk every day by the same streets: from home to work, from work to home, to the bakery, to the market place, to the store... We see every day the bus stop in front of our building, the bench next to the shop, the automatic door which never rests, those stairs we always go up... Contemporary city is full of objects we use. Our perception of the urban landscape is constructed under this premise: we only notice what we are able to use.
But let's watch a little closer what surrounds us: what happens with all the things we don't use? If you pay attention, you can watch them: they're still there. Old and useless blinds, cut pipelines with no connection to the sewer, broken walls which were part of an old building, broken electrical cables, lids, covers, old advertisements of stores which no longer exist... All these elements are on the streets we walk every day, in sight, even if they have no meaning or functionality. But paradoxically we don't see them at first sight: they remain in a subconscious perception, and create an aesthetical background of the city we live in.
Why we must pay attention only to the objects we can use? Just because of the usual functionality in the daily objects? Utility, benefit, expiry or style are habitual words in our present existence, that's true. But couldn't we put aside this pragmatic way of perception and just contemplate the landscape of the time passing city as a whole? Definitively, that's the way we look at a natural landscape, where we never rank the elements we see by its ability of being useful.
The aim of The No Longer Object Project is to recover in the contemporary city the way of looking at what surround us in our everyday life. If we start watching our homely streets in this way, new shapes, colors, abstract structures and shades will surround us by our path, creating an amazingly new (and free!) museum that we weren't able to see before.
Do you want to join this global museum? Just change your way of perceiving, pointing to those elements you could never use! Did you get it? Have you seen one of them? Please, take a picture and share it with us!
http://www.nolongerobject.com
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