The fact that we live in a binary world, ruled by polar opposites for everything, is old news. The real big news is that the post-pandemic scenario might offer a chance for breaking this binary system permanently.
Elementary distinctions between male and female, good and evil, local and foreign, black and white, right and wrong and so on, have shaped society ever since the rise of Cartesian philosophy in the 17th century. The dichotomy surrounding centre and periphery belongs to the same tradition of binary thinking; at global scale, it was the base of geographical, economic and political structures of all colonialist systems, where everything was determined by its relationship with the centre, detaining absolute power.
Just a couple of decades ago, this opportunity became more real than ever thanks to the digital revolution and its new hyper-efficient communication technologies: peripheries were re-imagined as new centres. During state-induce lockdowns, a whole new typology of centres materialised online, and the real marginal area became the realm of the offline.
Project Peripheria x Cor challenges these relationships by questioning deeply rooted cliches about how and why specific regions should present itself and be understood in a specific way desired by the centre. In this case Baltic region design scene is stressed to present itself as often rustic, low tech production of simple man-made objects of timber, linen, or clay.
![The addition of "grey" came about when, in the Romance languages, the sense of the word "amber" was extended to Baltic amber (fossil resin), as white or yellow amber (ambre jaune), from as early as the late 13th century. This fossilized resin became[when?] the dominant (and now exclusive) sense of "amber", leaving "ambergris" as the word for the whale secretion.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a0501fe0919a76835109ac02fafd05b4c39910b68527febb5c9d81253da72a6d/RP-P-1885-A-9446.jpg)
