The ObjectsNarratedProject aims to understand how women create a meaningful totality by keeping and cherishing certain objects in their homes. In order to make this phenomenon public, the project team interviewed with 6 women until now and made video records of them in their domestic environments. The narrativisation of objects which is suggested within the framework of this project is based on the idea that the self and the object are the same unified narrative and “the way people talk about their objects (i)s a way of talking about their lives, selves and experiences.” (1) Spoken accounts of connected events offer us a possibility to understand how the objects are perceived by their users or keepers, and what they might mean to them. “Like narratives, objects have a power in social settings: they offer interpretation of the story of their existence: they give back echoes of their past.” Here, within the framework of ObjectNarratedProject, an approach considering objects as forms of text is pursued which "allows the 'reader' to interpret within their own frames of reference. (2)

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THE RUG


Women are the archivists of their own lives and the lives of the beloved ones, and they are, in a sense, the purveyors of heritage. (4)Here is another example that expresses briefly the role women play regarding the heritage that is kept from generation to generation.
Necla says that her mother gave each of her seven children a rug as a trousseau. These rugs were made by her mother (she even painted the ropes by herself) during her pregnancy. This particular rug was made when her mother was pregnant (to her), waited all those years and finally was given to her when she was about to get married. She says that she and her youngest brother’s wife are the only ones who keep their rugs. She mentions how regretful the rest are now as their mother passed away and no one can make it again.
Gönderen objects narrated project zaman: 14:54