By Maja Kuzmanovic — In the proliferation of graphs and curves (exponential, flattening or otherwise) in recent months, finding meaning isn’t always easy. Watching the curve of Covid-19 infection rates creep up and down (and up and down and up again) has become a popular pastime for many of us. Deaths are abstracted and…

By Maja Kuzmanovic and Nik Gaffney — ‘Stay home’, ‘Shelter in place’, ‘Self-isolate’. Such instructions can only make sense with an appropriate place to stay. So, what would constitute a good shelter during a pandemic? A shelter that could become a home? …

By Maja Kuzmanovic — Ever since the Yugoslav war in the 1990s, I’ve got border issues. Especially borders that are closed or closing. When the borders began closing in response to the Covid-19 pandemic I had a strong sense of déjà vu. A familiar grief, an existential sense of loss. In June 1991 my…

By Maja Kuzmanovic and Kate Rich — Tracing our paths in the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic led us to challenge what or where is considered ‘home’, and what our homes could become. Home can be everywhere and nowhere. What the dash for cover and the often jarring moments of transit brought home to us is…

By Maja Kuzmanovic and Nik Gaffney — A condensed remix of some our thinking around care and uncertainty. Dedicated to all the carers near and far. In hospitals and quarantine, on delivery trucks and behind the grid, on the emptying streets and inside their homes… To all those providing essential services and all those in isolation or…

By Maja Kuzmanovic and Nik Gaffney — How to land in a place is a perpetual question for those of us who live and work nomadically or trans-locally. The fleeting moment of landing can be easily missed on your way somewhere. Whether you step off a boat, cross the threshold of someone’s home, or start a new…

By Maja Kuzmanovic and Nik Gaffney — Drawing on the dark arts, the domain where magicians and fortune-tellers commune with unknowable, faceless entities, we explore economic and cultural grey areas to reclaim tools of business administration as an artistic medium. The text is adapted from a lecture performance by Maja Kuzmanovic at RADMIN: Festival of Administration on…

Unknown, Unknowable and Uncertain. — Introducing Futures for artists and culture makers, by Maja Kuzmanovic and Nik Gaffney Unknown, unknowable & uncertain This article is intended to provide a brief introduction to working with futures as artists and culture makers. One of the central concerns is how and why Futures can provide useful methods for increasing agency and encouraging…

Based on a lecture for students, engineers and technopreneurs presented at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) on the 27th of March 2019 by Maja Kuzmanovic and Nik Gaffney Innovation focuses on creating radical change in existing fields. Innovation aspires to shape the future using the tools of the…