The housing shortage can be measured. Soil sealing, too. But when have numbers ever really moved anyone?
CONTAIN is a ceramic installation that translates data on living space and land sealing in Tyrol into physical form—into cups shaped by children, adults, and people with and without a solid foundation under their feet. The central question is: What does it take for data to be not just understood, but felt?
In her talk, Lisa Lechner unpacks the concept behind the concept: why participatory processes are not merely window dressing, but a form of insight. How the decision to translate data into sound is itself a political one. And what it means when logic and emotion are not opposites—but rather, together, make action possible.
