Thngs

We are surrounded by things. Each thing is a source of objective information. Thing tells us what is its intention, who made it, when and how. It tells how big it is, what is its color, and what materials were used. We once created all these things and endowed them with this data, which they carry over time. Things are the physical memory of humankind, memory of our past and present.

But things break, get damaged, and disappear over time. The disappearance of things is the disappearance of information. The physical preservation of all things is not possible, but we can preserve information that things contain. Saving information that thing provides us, we save the thing itself.

To prevent the loss of object information we propose a new home place for data about things that humankind produces, a Noah’s ark for the tangible world — Thngs.

Each thing has its own single page with its description, media, and files, that anyone can add and edit. Thing can be easily found and reviewed in different contexts. A thing’s correlation with other things can be viewed by any tag on a timeline or as a grid. So, a variety of things can be structured by common characteristics: typology, author, materials, location where made, and so on. Attached information and media along with files for 3D printing, schemes, instructions or assembly guides will provide possibilities for the re-creation of things — the transformation from digital form back into the physical.