Many and the Same

The question

A performative jam, built around a question: can our curiosity about one another let us genuinely listen — really listen, not assume — and leave space for each other?

That is not a brief with a deliverable. It is a question, and the work was finding an object that makes people do it without being told to.

What makes this kind of thing hard

You cannot specify your way to it. A game that is too explicit becomes a workshop exercise and people perform rather than participate; too loose and nothing happens at all. The only way to find the line is to build something, put it in front of a group, and watch how quickly they forget they are being observed.

Which means fabricating a real object early, knowing the first version is probably wrong.

How it was made

Planning and the shape of the interaction first.

Then visualising it, to test proportions and how people would arrange themselves around it before cutting anything.

Then building it.

Playing it

The part that mattered: groups of people, actually using it.

Why it is here

It is the clearest example of the studio working without a spec. Some projects arrive as a question rather than a requirement, and the method is the same: build the rough version, put it in front of people, and let what happens decide the next move.