The Object Ethnography Project
Deadline: March 31st, 2012.
Descripion: The Object Ethnography Project investigates how objects accumulate stories as they move from one life to another and how those stories influence value, meaning and circulation. We are looking for donations of objects—any kind of object—and the stories that come with them. Members of the public are invited to take these objects in exchange for a new story about them starting March 15th, 2012. The final online exhibit will include a photograph of the object, its original story, and its adoption story.
Examples here:
http://objectethnography.wordpress.com/
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=191763