The social shelf project by Gersande Schellinx inquires how shifted perspectives in relation to materiality can produce alternative relationship between users/makers and small objects.
In the context of social design, reciprocity between human and non-human actors is key. This bubble action uses the mundane space of a shelf as a material and conceptual constraint (or as a trope for social structures) to initiate conversations with people and their direct surroundings, engaging them in new material processes.
Gersande Schellinx (Paris, 1997) is an Amsterdam based interdisciplinary maker and designer.
Inhabiting publishing platforms, her work consists of creating contexts in which to publish, research and make content for publications.
In the frame of the master she aspired to position herself as intermediate and facilitator between objects and people, not as designer-author.
In re-evaluating our relation to ‘traditional’ media and production cycles, Gersande hopes to find alternative ways to publish with and for others in which sustainability and accessibility are at the core of new material narratives.
