Choosing idea
Pluriverse–it plays on themes that might require the target audience to be able to analyse it from the second level of semiotics in Barthes’ model for myths. Even though exclusion through a decoding of semiotics was mentioned when generating ideas it feels a bit much to expect from a target audience to fully appreciate the idea
Diagnosis can work as an idea where the target audience is let in on the understanding through the first level of semiotic signs in the myths model and then gain understanding enough to near the second level
Diagnosis allows for exploration which might be good for me while the Pluriverse is more constraint due to its direct ties to decolonial theory. Those can however be interweaved in the health community-idea
Feedback
The ideas wall gave three clear votes on the diagnosis-idea.
Group crit: John Stack loved the idea of letting people from the global south have full access to objects in the global north, while restricting people from the global north to their own regions.
He was also amused by the sound bits and explained the possibilities with a medicinal approach since a huge part of the museum collection contains exactly that. He mentioned how Romans made small clay replicas of body parts hurting and then sacrificing them for better health. Leaving a large amount of small body parts in clay. The stories around these medicinal objects can open.
I then booked a meeting with one of the senior lecturers at the Design Department at the local university, who has followed me a bit throughout this project. When I told him I have been working on the diagnosis-idea he just stopped me and said that he was highly critical of me choosing something because it is more “tangible” and more “joyful”, and thought I should take the risk and explore the possibilities and embrace the complexities of pursuing the pluriverse-idea as it is much more connected to my decolonial approach.