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The Office of Rules and Norms (ORN) is an arts-based transdisciplinary collective that engages with regulations, the rule of law and cultural norms. 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 behavioral urban infrastructures, the ORN specifically deploys art and design practice, culture, and methods along three axes:
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

Desk: 

Grey Areas

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Desk

Grey Areas

Grey zones exist in between standards, norms, and regulations. One could see these either as a failure of governance or as a promising zone of flexibility and deliberation – providing spaces to rethink how we craft and implement rules. The Grey Areas Desk explores the regulations and cultural norms in place to identify opportunities within them and understand how their interpretation can facilitate or lead to creative outcomes.

Upcoming Event

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Workshop
June 8, 2022
10:30 am - 12:30 pm

Archive

Course
Completed Project
Making Art Making Politics
Nov 2018
Research Project
Ongoing Project
Grey Areas — A Film About Emptiness
Jan 2021

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