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My project is to do with order, I want to identify an area within this
topic to create a contextual report from. I am currently unsure about what
this is. I have been reading books such as "sorting things out,
classification and its consequences" by Geoffrey C. Bowker and Susan Leigh
Star. "Eternally yours time in design" by Ed Van Hinte. "Joseph Cornell
vision of spiritual order" by Lindsay Blair. These books have been
inspiring and influencial. I have also been reading "The order of things"
by Michel Foucault, but found it very mundane and didn't get much from it.
I am interested in our ordering of objects. Rationalising our lives by
categorising everything, us as humans can be unrational. How order feels
like we have control in our lives. I am interested in how objects
correspond to the user/owner and technologies impact on our behavior. It
is all quite unclear still and confusing. I think order is a strong area
to study, I am just unsure about which element to start with.

I have some key words;
Categorising, Labels, Objects, Person, Space, Home, Profession, Material,
Storage, Sorting, Hoarding, Cluttering, OCD, Rigidity, Perception,
Archiving, Structure, patterns,Infrastructure, technology, visibility,
standards, disorder, privacy, habits,the self.