‘By shedding the light on the specific working methods of three independent makers, the project aims to investigate how to redefine outdated models of mass production, transforming them into relationships that are more in tune with individual experience and our potential as social actors, thereby breaking free from models based on hierarchical systems where mass production and assembly lines divide human lives into separate spheres of production and free time. Contrary to the notion of industrialized labor, understood through a series of repetitive tasks, the project highlights instead small-scale industries that are reliant on the proliferation of craftsmanship and design-in-making. The project aims to depict three ways of making through recordings and drawings of the human body in relation to diverse tools and environments, including both analogue the digital processes. The investigation is located in Favoriten, Vienna’s 10th district, a part of the city known for its cultural diversity, largely due to various immigrant communities, that have recently begun to experience a wave of gentrification. Thus the project not only aims to highlight human subjectivity through the proliferation of craftsmanship and small-scale industry, but also records the intricate socio-economic relationships intertwined between the old and the new residents, and speculates on how those relationships will change.’
