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Significant Objects | ...and how they got that way

A literary and anthropological experiment devised by Rob Walker and Joshua Glenn, demonstrated that the effect of narrative on any given object's subjective ...

How the Significant Objects Social Experiment Proved the Economic ...

Significant Objects was a literary and anthropological experiment that demonstrated that the effect of narrative on any given object's subjective value can be ...

The Significant Objects projects: Quantifying the value of storytelling

Rob Walker and Joshua Glenn bought 100 cheap trinkets from thrift stores and garage sales and asked 100 creative writers to invent stories around them.

Significant Objects.pdf - Miami Arts Charter School

Significant Objects, a literary and anthropological experiment devised by Rob Walker and Joshua Glenn, demonstrated that the effect of ...

Significant Objects, and the Magic of Storytelling | by Emily Ross

Significant Objects, and the Magic of Storytelling ... In 2009 two journalists, Rob Walker and Joshua Glenn, decided to conduct an experiment.

A tangible demonstration of the power of storytelling - Treeshake

The Significant Objects experiment is a tangible demonstration of the power of storytelling in sales and marketing. Journalist Rob Walker ...

Significant Objects - Rob Walker

Significant Objects is a literary and anthropological enterprise devised by Joshua Glenn and Rob Walker. It began as an online experiment.

Significant Objects: How Stories Confer Value Upon the Vacant

Significant Objects reminds us of the storiness of our lived materiality — of the artifacts we imbue with meaning, with loves and losses, with ...

Significant Objects - jwoho - WordPress.com

Each object has been handmade, the materials carefully chosen, prepared, joined and constructed to become something of greater significance than it's ...

The experiment that proves the value of stories - LinkedIn

The people buying the Significant Objects on eBay didn't just get the object – they acquired a framed copy of the story for their object too.

Rob Walker's Significant Objects demonstrate the importance of ...

Rob Walker is best known for his writing for The New York Times magazine and his book Buying In, which explores the relationship between ...

Significant Object - Welcome

The website of Significant Object, a London-based company that creates puppetry and object manipulation performances for theatre and other media.

He Takes Stuff Seriously - The New York Times

For Joshua Glenn, a co-author of “Significant Objects,” an object gains value and meaning when a story is added.

Significant Objects: 100 Extraordinary Stories About Ordinary Things

Read 29 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Collects the results of a literary experiment in which a best-selling or ...

Studio 360's Significant Object Story Contest - YouTube

Rob Walker (co-editor of the new book Significant Objects) and Studio 360's Kurt Andersen visited Vintage Thrift in Manhattan to find three ...

Significant Objects, ed. by Joshua Glenn & Rob Walker

Significant Objects began in 2009 as a bold online inquiry into the relationship between narrative and the value of everyday objects. It has ...

Rob Walker: Significant Objects - Vimeo

Rob Walker started off the day at PSFK's NYC Conference on Friday, April 9 with his presentation on Significant Objects, ...

SIGNIFICANT OBJECTS REDUX - HiLobrow

As HILOBROW readers know, in 2009–2010 Rob Walker and I collaborated on SIGNIFICANT OBJECTS — a literary-economic-anthropological experiment ...

Significant objects | WorldCat.org

The results of a literary experiment in which a best-selling or popular author wrote a short fictional prose story about an object on eBay, thus raising its ...

Significant Objects: How Story Can Imbue a Meaningless Object ...

Stories take an object and enrobe it in meaning. It takes the ordinary, everyday thimble or jar of marbles and connects it to a love story or a commitment to ...


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