The Meeting Room Project

- a collaboration between FOS and Kenneth A. Balfelt

The 'Meeting Room Project' is temporary redesigns of meeting situations to deconstruct the power and social layers in order to create new situations in information transferral, negotiation and to create a different personal space in group structures. This done through physical alterations.

The meeting room is a symbol of the decision making processes and has a very anchored form, structure and program where processes are entangled with norms and values which are formative for the outcome of meetings. Therefore we need to consider the physical and effectively social frame for these meetings between people and work towards releasing them from past doctrines and encircling paradigms.

With the 'Meeting Room Project' we want to discuss the restrictions and possibilities meeting rooms and situations offer for an organisation's interest. The project is aimed at inserting the possibility for the meeting participants to reflect on their own place of enunciation. It is an attempt to make a detour away from the non-performative already written room - where the interaction risks being mere 'wallpapering' on existing structures - towards a performative space that can be re-written as new every time you use it.