PROJECT 2v4

While this project initially began with numbers, from 0 to 9, we eventually touched on the letters ‘A’ and ‘Z’ (A-Z). However, an afternoon spent sorting through an old backpack led to a new discovery-a coin from a distant part of the world. This coin, once enough to buy bread and bananas for a day, was utterly worthless here. Like numbers, money is an abstraction; its value is defined by context, time, and place, but it has no tangible, universal meaning.

This realisation led us to consider how currency, like numbers, exists as a symbolic system tied to location and time. Have you ever tried to spend Australian dollars in Spain or Euros in Malaysia? The value of money fluctuates and is not constant across borders.

In this part of the project, we took the major global currency symbols (£, $, ¥) and deconstructed them before reconstructing them. It’s intriguing, after all, that 1 Swiss franc holds more value than 1 Indian rupee. Isn’t it?

1=1 right