“Design solidifies, and naturalizes, things that start off as opinions, stories and traditions and so supplies the form to the fictions by which we live,”
— Michael Rock
Via Jarrett Fuller’s newsletter article Constructed Fictions and Imagined Realities
I like this map of connections, a fun way to explore all the “intangible cultural heritage of humanity” — which is a very cool list to exist! This is essentially a digital garden focused on all the cultures of the world. Some of these items are extremely specific, which makes sense that cultural practices developed through a group of people in a particular geographic area, in close association with the way they needed to live in that climate and place.
Came across this via the list of “intangible cultural heritage of humanity in urgent need of safeguarding” via the “Proclamation of Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity” via the duduk.