Time-Based Packaged Goods/Valigia (Suitcase, Luggage)

Abstract

The first lemma defines what are those packaged goods conditioned by the “time” variable. A people-planet-based design approach opens up a consideration with respect to those goods (and thus packaged goods) where the functional dimension intersects with a temporal dimension on the ‘end of life’. The dimension of temporary citizenship and its repercussions on packaged goods is also explored. In the second lemma, on the other hand, the investigation focuses on a particular type of case, the suitcase, which introduces the “space” variable within the research. In addition to an investigation of the object’s role over the centuries, we explore how the suitcase intertwines its history with that of migration, becoming the intimate baggage of migrants to carry a constellation of small objects that relate past, present, and future.