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17-25 October 2026

Absurdity in Making

Tickling Imagined Boundaries

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This project is now archived and was part of DDW23

Absurdity in Making: Tickling Imagined Boundaries
Absurdity in Making: Tickling Imagined Boundaries
Absurdity in Making is a collective exploring absurdity as a means to challenge norms, bridging reality and imagination. Humans often draw imaginary boundaries across societal layers, influencing behaviors and shaping our world. We target the absurdity arising from the divisions these lines create.

A playful and absurd perspective on social imagined boundaries

Our research is about the "imaginary lines" that humans have always been projecting. In order to recognize the unknown and face uncertainty, people often create invisible boundaries for categorizing, labeling, and defining things. Although it brings social order, it also inevitably brings prejudices and social frameworks that wrongly lead people in a specific direction. The goal of Absurdity in Making is to liberate people's minds. Absurdity in Making provides playful and provocative perspectives on these imagined boundaries that are shaped in society. We strive not to eliminate these lines, but to find blurry areas of diversity and democracy. We oppose single values, aiming to foster dynamic dialogue from an absurd perspective. Those imagined boundaries spread across various fields in society, profoundly shaping the current world. Therefore, we want to link people from different areas conduct further research in the future, and share our ideas with the public.

About Absurdity in Making

In a utilitarian society, things are established under the framework of meaning or function. Those things that seem meaningless, contradictory, and illogical are absurd. We are a design collective valuing absurdity, using it to challenge norms and bridge reality with imagination. We seek to discard the functionalist mindset, opting instead to explore and draw inspiration from life's absurdities. For us, absurdity offers a fresh perspective on reality, prompting a re-evaluation of the status quo.