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Friday, March 05, 2004
What are the qualities that truly identify us?
This is an interesting competition: design a global ID card. Obviously thinking through big concepts like this are way beyond me, but the winners come up with some interesting solutions, and ask some interesting questions. The overall winner seems to be addressing the nature if Identity, and realising that trying to capture identity is like trying to hit a moving target. Our lives are fluid, we move and change. My passport phot is from my student days - and boy did I need a haircut!!
The winner is: Bryan Boyer of Providence, Rhode Island
He produces a card "that probes the complex nature of identity with devastating minimalism. A small, oblong slip of paper represents the modest resources of most people on earth. "What does an I.D. card mean for those without enough money to buy a car or have a credit card?" Boyer explained. "Do you really exist in this world if you don't participate in the great global finance machine?" Divided into sections, the card is labeled with airport-code-like abbreviations representing the questions, Where have you been? Where are you now? Where are you going? Where did you begin? Where do you wish you were? One's true self can be gleaned from the matrix of these responses, Boyer insisted, as much as anyone's identity can be pinned down in an age when facial features, names, and addresses are equally fluid. "Answering the five questions on the card tells us who you are now, and who you may be tomorrow," he said."
How would you answer the 5 questions?
Catch runners up here.
Posted by: Mark | 1:10 pm
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