data detox

introduce the idea of data detox to your team,

very briefly

run it for a set period

ignore all information on analyses, progress and results

just say: ‘talk with your colleagues how you proceed’

seeing zero-ing

find various proxies for one ton of co2 emitted

and for each one an associated image

find out your organisation’s tons of co2 footprint

(per day, week,….)

mount, at the entrance of your location, for each ton an  image of one of the proxies

update regularly with new images

adjust the number of images to your actual net zero trajectory

document the process

lightly induced links

hand out small differently colour-coded leaflets

to people entering your building when they come to work

invite them to sit during lunch at a table

coded with the same colour as the leaflet

suggest some provoking talking points in the leaflet

indicate that this lunch is work too

video tape the event with short interviews

Four monumental artworks at locations where you would not expect them. The places which have some sort of integrity in themselves are disturbed by an intrusive element. The viewers need to adjust to the unusual occurrence. This context adds to the being of the artwork, it provokes a different awareness.

The temporality of the four art works adds another layer to them. Like they appeared, they will disappear. By the time the art work becomes a known facet of its environment, when it blends into our visual expectation, it is removed. Leaving an empty space, a second moment of awareness.

The three études (data detox, seeing zero-ing and improbable links) are unexpected interventions. They do not happen in regular organisational practises. They are unfamiliar.

That gives the intervention extra meaning.

They are not intended to become part of the regular organisational tissue. Their temporality is intentional and helps to create the possibility of extension.

The exercises have a certain largess which give them a kind of monumentality, like the four works of art.

The interventions are part of the stordes initiative about ‘études to shape the modi operandi for organisations as works of art’.