Provisional measures. Cables messing with trees. A punctured waterbottle becoming a showerhead. A clock that is broken in half, is fixed by drawing the missing numbers on the wall. The pleasure of creativity deriving from scarcity. Doing more with less. Frugal innovation. Help yourself. Sticky sticky mess. Making things do. 70% ever enough? Things do making with us?
As part of Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan's residency program, Marius Land will present his state of research at his host organisation Daily Dump.
By combining image, text, interviews, objects and personas, the format tries to explore the hindi term Jugaad. A method of finding quick and pragmatic ways of problem solving, when facing scarcity of proper ressources by bending the established rules of use and value. But maybe even more, offering potential of finding alternative ways of dealing with objects, practicing forms of resistance and finding tools for navigation within highly-complex globaly layered realities. Things do. Making.
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