GMU:Patterns/Lidya Colak

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[Mis]Placed Desires investigates how public spaces in Weimar produce and normalize certain desires, memories, roles, and expected behaviors. Through cultural-probe questions, participants are first asked to describe what kinds of activities or collective situations they associate with selected public spaces. These initial answers are treated not as pure personal preferences, but as spatially coded desires: responses already shaped by the social meanings and behavioral expectations of place.

What participants do not know at this stage is that the activity emerging from their answers will not be performed in its expected location. Instead, it will be relocated into another public space, where the same desire may become strange, inappropriate, uncomfortable, playful, or newly possible. This displacement becomes the project’s schizoanalytic method: by removing desire from the spatial machine that makes it feel natural, the project exposes how public space organizes what can be desired, performed, or suppressed.

The most important part of the project happens through this second step of action. Only by performing the displaced activity can participants encounter the hidden codes, frictions, permissions, and resistances of the new site. These experiences will be documented through sound, video, maps, and participant reflections. The collected materials will form a sound-based digital anti-guide for Weimar: not a historical guide to the city, but an archive of misplaced desires that asks how Weimar wants us to behave, how we perform ourselves in public space, and how a place might be used otherwise.