
The Office of Rules and Norms
Exploring the role of art in revealing and challenging existing rules
2019 –
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Concordia University
The Office of Rules and Norms (ORN) is an arts-based transdisciplinary studio headquartered in the Faculty of Fine Arts at Concordia University. The Office engages with regulations, the rule of law, cultural norms and market standards. These engagements reveal, comprehend, play with, subvert, and transcend current ways of understanding and acting in relation to regulatory forces in order to make room for more equitable alternatives. In its attempts to query legal and behavioural urban infrastructures, the ORN specifically deploys art and design practice, culture, and methods along three axes:
Initial projects launched in Autumn 2019 explore grey areas of the building code, socially-biased regulations, the voices of future generations and real estate speculation. One of them, Excess and the City, is a course in which participants will investigate and develop new art methodologies to reveal the systems underlying speculation and excessive cities. Excess and the City examines the complex financial, political and social schemes that produce increasingly unaffordable cities, and explore the potential of subversion in finding alternatives to speculation.
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- Art as Subversion | Intervening in grey areas of regulation
- Art as Pedagogy | Making public various forces and forms of influence
- Art as Decision-Making | Reorienting modes of knowing and deliberating
Initial projects launched in Autumn 2019 explore grey areas of the building code, socially-biased regulations, the voices of future generations and real estate speculation. One of them, Excess and the City, is a course in which participants will investigate and develop new art methodologies to reveal the systems underlying speculation and excessive cities. Excess and the City examines the complex financial, political and social schemes that produce increasingly unaffordable cities, and explore the potential of subversion in finding alternatives to speculation.
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We’re a distributed team with presence around the world.
Netherlands
Dark Matter Laboratories B.V.
Pakhuis de Zwijger
Piet Heinkade 181K
1019 HC Amsterdam
KvK number: 75174405
United Kingdom
Dark Matter Laboratories Limited
217 Mare Street
London, E8 3QE
Company number: 13294211
Canada
Laboratoires de Matière sombre / Dark Matter LabsOrganisation à but non-lucratif canadien / Canadian not-for-profit
1740 rue Saint-Patrick
Montréal (Québec), H3K 0B3
Numéro de l'organisation / Corporation number: 1196376-7
South Korea
주식회사 다크매터랩스코리아 / Dark Matter Labs Korea Co., Ltd
#301, Pyeongtaek 5-ro 20beon-gil 8,
Pyeongtaek-si, Gyeonggi-do, 17902
경기도 평택시 평택5로 20번길 8, 301호, 우편번호 17902
사업자등록증: 808-88-01717
Sweden
Mörk Materia Laboratoriet AB / Dark Matter Labs Sweden
Östergatan 1
211 25 Malmö
Registration number: 559305-1047
Netherlands
Dark Matter Laboratories B.V.
Pakhuis de Zwijger
Piet Heinkade 181K
1019 HC Amsterdam
KvK number: 75174405
United Kingdom
Dark Matter Laboratories Limited
217 Mare Street
London, E8 3QE
Company number: 13294211
Canada
Laboratoires de Matière sombre / Dark Matter LabsOrganisation à but non-lucratif canadien / Canadian not-for-profit
1740 rue Saint-Patrick
Montréal (Québec), H3K 0B3
Numéro de l'organisation / Corporation number: 1196376-7
South Korea
주식회사 다크매터랩스코리아 / Dark Matter Labs Korea Co., Ltd
#301, Pyeongtaek 5-ro 20beon-gil 8,
Pyeongtaek-si, Gyeonggi-do, 17902
경기도 평택시 평택5로 20번길 8, 301호, 우편번호 17902
사업자등록증: 808-88-01717
Sweden
Mörk Materia Laboratoriet AB / Dark Matter Labs Sweden
Östergatan 1
211 25 Malmö
Registration number: 559305-1047
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+44 (0) 20 7739 2230
Dm Korea ︎
Twitter︎
LinkedIn︎
Medium︎
Facebook︎
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