Overlay Booklets

Why? 'We don't see the home, because we see it everyday'. Our habitual ways of understanding things allows for their effortless adoption for everyday needs, however, this also hides technologies from our immediate experiences of them.
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How? Responding to Rosi Braidotti's call for posthuman navigational tools, I created the Overlay Booklets, which is not for navigation, nor is it really a tool. More of a post-literary book, with which to wander around the home, pay attention to everyday objects, notice the ways in which we might not see them, looking for ways in which we might be living-with them. As technologies sediment, we might not notice the way they also forbid e.g. benches might have armrests that forbid the unhoused/ homeless population from relating to the bench as a bed - a hostile technology that is usually invisible/ unnoticed to the other populations.

The overlay booklets are a non-computational form of augmentation and annotation of the way things mediate our relation to the world. As a form of co-making, the booklets employ situated, embodied knowledge of the home environments, highlighting the subject as a relational, interconnected being in the world.

MSc thesis defended with supervision of Ron Wakkary and Kristina Andersen.