diffractive encyclopedia

collaboration with Flora Weil and Niklas Egberts

What does an encyclopedia with no epistemic center look like?

We created a game as a procedure of knowing the world differently. We wondered, do we need stable categories to create knowledge? Must knowledge be systematic, and must it remain in the tradition of humanist knowledge projects unfolded through the Enlightenment?

We asked participants to re-imagine familiar objects through unfamiliar metrics, resulting in an object environment that confounded systematic knowledge production.