Our missions encourage you to research and to make visible the 'lives in things', and the relationships between their producers and consumers. You will learn the secrets of ‘geographic detective work’ and how to make mischief with your findings. How can seeing the lives in things change our own, and other people's, understandings of global trade?
followthethings
followthethings.com is a shopping website, like those you might visit to buy groceries, books, anything. Except it isn’t. Its departments contain films, art, activism, writing and other work that tries to encourage us to think about the people who make the things that we buy.
followthethings.com encourages an understanding of the global economy as a complex and changing social system, whose key relationships are those between people who produce and consume things. These relationships are normally invisible. They are hidden from most of us, most of the time. Until we start to ask questions, follow leads, and learn to see these relationships in everything...
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