About DSWAP
DSwap is a senior project by James Worsham and Alex Reicher, two graphic design students from the College for Creative Studies, the initial scope of the project required a variable of chance that prompted change within the everyday. The initial idea was to set-up a give and take table and prompt people on the streets of Detroit to participate, we would supply a seed inventory and record the transactions. We started focusing on perceived value of objects, then began to introduce the idea of tracking an items evolution through trades.
DSWAP Refined
This was slightly refined into a swap table that juxtaposed Maslow's hierarchy of needs represented by relative objects categorized by level of need. We would then record the trade transactions and track what any object eventually ends up as through the various trades as well as determine the overall immediate well-being of that area. We analyzed the data and arrived at the conclusion of immediate well-being using the object categories, tracking if the participants traded up or down the levels of hierarchy.
