PLANE OF THESEUS is a focus group taking Boeing's 737 MAX crisis, culminating in the 2019 grounding of the plane, as a starting point to discuss system thinking, software virtualisation and financialisation.
The focus group asks when and how a plane ceases to be a plane, unpacking it both as a system able to impact its actions through virtualisation and as the result of a system able to impact its value through financialisation. Participants explore the topic producing screen based work.
- 2020 (focus group)
- RAVENSBOURNE UNIVERSITYlondon
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- BA ARCHITECTURERAVENSBOURNE UNIVERSITY, london
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- 2019 (focus group)
- WEISSENSEE HOCHSCHULEberlin
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- MA VISUAL COMMUNICATIONWEISSENSEE HOCHSCHULE, berlin
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Christine Meyer and Anita Nguyen, MA Visuelle Kommunikation, Weissensee 
Ezequiel Hyon, BA Visuelle Kommunikation, Weissensee Leon Schöler, MA Visuelle Kommunikation, Weissensee Jason Yang, MA Moving Image, Ravensbourne University London PLANE OF THESEUS is a focus group taking Boeing's 737 MAX crisis, culminating in the 2019 grounding of the plane, as a starting point to discuss system thinking, software virtualisation and financialisation.
The focus group asks when and how a plane ceases to be a plane, unpacking it both as a system able to impact its actions through virtualisation and as the result of a system able to impact its value through financialisation. Participants explore the topic producing screen based work.
![A website with a cloud image in the background and the ords 'Crisis Control, the Customers are waiting']()
Christine Meyer and Anita Nguyen, MA Visuelle Kommunikation, Weisensee ![An artificial landscape with the words 'safe space' and drawings of yellow rocks overlaid]()
Judith Weber, MA Visuelle Kommunikation, Weisensee ![An aircraft flying through dollar signs and oil barrels]()
Leon Schöler, MA Visuelle Kommunikation, Weisensee ![A smiling aircraft with a whale's tail surrounded by the words Boeing 7-3-7]()
Yael Ohmer and Anneliese Wabnitz, MA Visuelle Kommunikation, Weisensee ![Black and white, mri-style scans of the components of an aircraft]()
Ezequiel Hyon, MA Visuelle Kommunikation, Weisensee ![key dates in the production and development of an aeroplane obscured by a quote saying 'ideas are measured in dollars' - managers at boeing]()
