Desk of ECP
The Desk of ECP is a multilayered project that began as an attempt to make sense of the chaos living on my desk, an effort to bring order to a space I interact with every day. By taking inventory and cataloging each object, my awareness (and curiosity) around objects, their roles, and their meanings grew.
Every item was tagged by objective measurement, and added to a custom Shopify site, which allowed me to sort and reorganize the collection in new, sometimes unlikely ways. I see this could be used in the future as a sort of constraint generator for kickstarting new projects.
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The project expanded into both macro and micro views: a large 30 x 50-inch matrix poster that positioned each object by size and perceived importance, and a series of small zines that zoomed in on specific groupings, like every yellow thing on my desk. Throughout this process, the act of sorting and organizing information stayed at the center of my thinking.
I realized I had already used multiple lenses: my own subjective instincts, the more “objective” system built into my website, and now I was curious about how others would sort the same set of items. I asked classmates and family members to do their own grouping exercises, and it opened my eyes to how differently people make decisions, even when given identical parameters.