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Metaphysics of Opportunity Costs

Shaping spaces of sustainability

Making decisions is a complex process. Not only does it require the individual to take into account various factors like opportunity costs, estimated consequences of a decision and the workload involved, it almost always involves communication and collaboration with others as well. The importance of a factor has to be considered and discussed and more often than not it turns out, that what seems sustainable to one actor is considered beside the point and not taken as seriously by another.
Participants were asked to cooperate in small groups to construct a sustainable landscape and attach specific properties to the materials involved. They were confronted with a playful decision making process - the outcome was transferred to a model and assessed. The collaborative creative action reflects the qualities of apparently mainly rational scientific and less rational artistic decision making and gives an idea how those different approaches can cross-fertilize. The resulting patchwork landscape-sculptures were displayed in the foyer.

Margit Busch, Mathias Kirchner, Bernd Kräftner, Hermine Mitter, Christian Muncher.
2014

Fact Box

Metaphysics of Opportunity Costs
Part of
Date
June 23, 2014