Future Archeology is Paula Zuccotti’s first documentary feature film based on her book “Every Thing We Touch”. Can our objects tell the story of our lives? The film challenges us to imagine how future generations would make sense of our physical footprint from the objects we ...
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Time Capsule: Allegories of Shanghai
Photography and video work installation
June-July 2015
From the items found in our homes, to the tools we use at work, we surround ourselves with objects necessary for our existence in todays world.As part of a wider global project, I travelled to Shanghai, one of China's most diverse cities, in an attempt to explore an idea that we can make sense of someones life, by viewing the objects they touch throughout a day.
The short film Objects in Shanghai was created for the exhibition showing us the making of the photographs and behind the scene of the six citizens I met and whose stories I told by simply showing EVERY THING they TOUCH in a single day.
Shanghai Team
Clarisa Martinez, Josh Wasserman, Paula Zuccotti
Participants
ChaCha, Denise Huang, Liu Jie Fei, Nini Sum, Ted Wang, Wang Jung.
The press LOVED Every Thing We Touch. So I have created a specific tumblr to share all the comments and reviews that are travelling the world, from Wired to The Guardian to the Huffington Post.
Below, you can find some of the older articles about my work in design, research,...
Paula Zuccotti, author of Every Thing We Touch, has created a new series of photographs in keeping with her subject of everyday lives told through objects.
This time she has chosen to create an imaginary day in the life of Hillary Clinton and Donald...
The design and ground rules for Every Thing We Touch were simple. I approached people and asked them to keep a record of all the objects they touched on a day of their choice. Permanent objects such as handles, taps and light switches were excluded, as were large items like...
The ŠKODA Octavia “Loved, not owned” campaign uses ethnography and Every Thing We Touch as a unique visual storytelling technique to create a snapshot in time of the Octavia owner’s lives and the relationship they have with their car; told through the objects that travel in t...
You can visit the dedicated project website here
www.everythingwetouch.org
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Every Thing We Touch: A 24-Hour Inventory of Our Lives
Paperback, 12 Nov 2015. Published by Viking - Penguin Random House
My book is about Future Archeology, you can ord...
Paula Zuccotti is a London-based Argentine industrial designer, ethnographer, trends forecaster, creative strategist and visual artist.
She is a leading expert in global consumption and a respected authority in consumer behaviour and product interaction – past, present and ...