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NO QUO

June 14–20, 2015, Vinalhaven, ME

Quid Pro Quo is Latin for an exchange of goods or services, where one transfer is contingent upon the other, like tit for tat. Status Quo upholds the existing state of affairs, same-old, same-old. NO QUO considers an uneven give and take, open to practices where making something out of nothing or any imbalance of expectations, power, materials or process can become a constraint as well as an opportunity. NO QUO suggests that instead of doing what’s expected, the status quo, design could be an act of going overboard and producing an excess of what’s required, or eliminating the thing altogether.

DesignInquiry 2015: NO QUO carries on DI’s “Decade of Agitation”: we agitate beyond the prescribed & patrolled borders of professional & academic design(s). Where do NO QUO relations exist and how does the designer respond? What is “counter” to “status quo”? How does NO QUO expand the conversation? What form does NO QUO take?

References:

Stein, Maurice R, and Larry Miller. Blueprint for Counter Education. Garden City, N.Y: Doubleday, 1970. Print.
O.P. Lyons and C.H. Healey, Publisher. The Wind (newspaper) Vinalhaven, ME.
Ono, Yoko. Grapefruit. Tokyo, Japan: Wunternaum Press, 1964. Print.
Ulrich Obrist, Hans. DO IT.

Ebb and Flow Quo
By: Neil Patel, Peter Evonuk, Steve Bowden
NOPLACELAND
By: Joshua Singer
Dinner or Supper
By: Margo Halverson
NoQuo: What I Remember I Forgot
By: DesignInquiry
Driftwood
By: DesignInquiry
Excerpt from my initial NoQuo proposal: **I like the idea of finding deadfall, driftwood, and other found objects and working with other collaborators to produce an experimental, physical, typeface. Then taking that typeface and digitizing to examine what is lost and what is gained in the exchange between a physical, analogue typeface and its digital […]
NO-QUORSE 9
By: Rachele Riley
CAKEWALK
By: Margo Halverson
NO QUO TONES
By: Zach Kaiser
2015-2016 DesignInquiry Fellows
By: Arzu Ozkal, Chris Fox, Jonathan Novak, Josh Unikel, Neil Patel, Peter Evonuk, Steve Bowden, The Calderwood Collective, Tricia Treacy
a random incomplete No Quo reading list
By: Gabrielle Esperdy
What we’re thinkiNg abO[Q]Ut nOw : A Series of Footnotes
By: DesignInquiry
Words on NO QUO.
By: Rachele Riley
Grapefruit, a collaborative NO QUO postal project
By: Gabrielle Esperdy
Nine Predictions of a No Quo Exchange
By: Denise Gonzales Crisp
1 Two crates of grapefruit. 2 Five groups of five people, (one group includes DI Vinalhaven regular Obi, a white standard poodle), convene to venture answers to one of five queries: How might “Quo” feel to the touch? What might “No” smell like? At what rate of frequency do the words “No Quo” need to […]
NO QUO & GRAPEFRUIT
By: Gail Swanlund
NO-QUO, the graphic.
By: Denise Gonzales Crisp
DI Vinalhaven 2015 : COLLABORATIVE ONSITE PUBLISHING / COUNTER-PROJECT
By: DesignInquiry
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