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Identical Lunch

This daily practice emerged from an observation. Allison noticed she would eat the same thing most days at the diner, and transformed this observation into a performance with many participants over time, recounting their journeys with her lunch order.

https://monoskop.org/images/1/1c/Knowles_Alison_Journal_of_the_Identical_Lunch_1971.pdf

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Creator(s): Allison Knowles

Year: 1971

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Daily Practice

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/readings

  • Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need

  • Publics and Counterpublics

  • The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

  • The Design of Everyday Things

/activities

  • Context Exercise

  • Create a Narrative / User Journey for your Project

  • Guide to a Random Topic

  • Intervening in an Arrangement

  • Observe-Analyze-Interperet-Evaluate Method for feedback

  • Rapid Research

  • Solo Reflection: Form

  • Stakeholder Exercise

Identical Lunch