_thinkMake Week_07,08 (Spatial Practices: Thinking and Making) - Workshop, The doing/performing of critical spatial practices.

 After consolidation week, we were in the workshops for two weeks. We were asked to bring a furniture piece to the workshop and dismantle it into pieces, then reform it into a new one with operation by 3 words that we had chosen from the reading. By performing this, we may begin

1. think about how this artefact impacts our daily life as 'diffracted' through the texts I will be working on. 
2. to realize that what are the affordances of your object and What does it ask me to do?
3.  How do the materials perform? And how might I use it?

This week's reading was Vibrant Matter A Political Ecology of Things by Jane Bennett. From what I understand, In Chapter 1, The Force of Things, 

• Bennett introduces the concept of thing-power, which is the agency of material objects to act and impact other materials, producing effects in the world.
• Humans are not the only sources of agency and there are nonhuman forces such as the outside that are the remainder of matter that escapes human perception and comprehension, but still influence the course of things.
• Self-organizing systems, such as crystals and swarms eg, they show how inorganic matter can display creativity and order without human intervention.

In Chapter 2, The Agency of Assemblages,

•  The concept of assemblage is a heterogeneous grouping of human and nonhuman elements that act as a unitary whole.
• Assemblages have a distributive and emergent agency, which means that their capacity to act is not reducible to the sum of their parts, but arises from the interactions and relations among them. They also have a history and a trajectory, meaning they are not fixed or stable, but constantly changing and evolving.
• A better Degree of vitality can enhance the capacities and potential of their members.

I've chosen seven words from this week's reading, the most significant ones that resonate with me are,

1. reform
2. impale
3. transcendence
4. interjected (; to interject)
5. assemblage (; to assemble)
6. oscillating (; to oscillate)
7. emanating

I bought a set of wooden tables from a charity shop nearby and deconstructed the smaller one into each part. So, the top, the legs, and the stretchers are separated now.

Then, I attached the face of the plane with two new pine wood panels, to from grips which I can install into the two new wooden paths by making a gap between them with different-sized sticks.

I turned the small table downwards and attached its sides with two new pine wood panels on it's each side and two wood path panels at the top and bottom supported by the existing table structure.

From the top, I made a hole into the attached new wooden panel and screwed it with a dismantled table leg which can be horizontally fully rotated.

On each side, I also made holes into the attached new wooden panels and screwed them with dismantled table legs which can be vertically rotated partially because of restrictions from the extended new wooden panels at the top and bottom

At the front, I bound the plane with attached grips into the wooden paths installed at the top and bottom, the plane can move side to side horizontally. On the face of the plane, I made a hole into it and screwed it with a short dismantled leg which can be fully rotated in a circle. 

Here is a video of how this assemblage can be worked and made movements with the users.