ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the manner in which objects are remade through design and the stories wrapped around them. It explores my own personal domestic context of homemaking in order to demonstrate how storytelling and the intentional act of design combine to form a meaningful and performative mode of possession. The chapter takes as its focus some objects of ‘the other’, colonial acquisitions that were given to us by my partner’s Great Aunt Rose. These objects, literally out of place and time, arguably only exist through the stories of their journey. In this sense, the chapter considers the ways in which the exotic becomes the everyday to demonstrate the transformative power of active possession through redesign.
