
YEAR: 2020–ongoing
CATEGORY: Design Research, Visual Communication
ROLE: Chronicler, Photographer, Collector
CLIENT / TYPE: Free Project
COLLABORATORS: Independent work
TOOLS / MEDIUM: Found objects, photography, scanning, transcription, data analysis
OUTPUT: Collection, archive, visual analysis of found shopping lists
Challenge
Handwritten shopping lists are usually treated as disposable notes. Once lost or discarded, they become small traces of everyday life, consumption and routine.
Approach
Brot, Wurst & Käse collects found shopping lists and looks at them as informal documents of personal habits. The project observes what people buy, how they write, what they forget, cross out or add later.
Process
The lists are collected, photographed or scanned, transcribed and compared. Selected items are analysed to see which products appear together and what patterns emerge across the archive.
Result
The result is an ongoing collection of found shopping lists, supported by visual and data-based analysis. Network visualisations show recurring combinations and clusters of products.
Reflection
The project is a simple archive of everyday traces. Its interest lies in how much ordinary, discarded paper can reveal about routines, preferences and small patterns of consumption.
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