EveryVille Competition by La Biennale di Venezia -  project 23 of 40
HON. MENTION
OR.SO page 2 (page 1)
Dylan Thomas (UNITED STATES), Andrew Temples (UNITED STATES)
The Happiness Wall
Pods are hung on a frame and swing from a pivoting point on the structure as its sacks are weighted down with objects.This activates a visual landscape, denoting activity within the wall. Citizens may put plants, pictures, books, stuffed animals, real animals, etc., inside. Citizens on the other side take them and assign new uses to those objects, or ponder their past significance. Depending on the preference of the citizens, the wall could function as a market. It could become a social guessing game, creating a web of ambiguous object relationships. the pods will begin to penetrate the community, as the citizens take whole pods from the wall. They reinvent the use of the pods as vessels or furniture, or leave some hung for their original use. The people, then, have destroyed the iconography of the wall and have made it into a new object that has now integrated itself into their daily living. They have been allowed to indulge their initial selfish instincts without harm to others.