Barefoot Wounds 1

This project uses games and puzzles to challenge the habit of looking for a single correct answer. Adapting the formats of math Olympiad problems and lateral-thinking games, it brings the complexity of everyday life into the process of solving a problem. Participants are encouraged to look beyond the stated conditions and consider how personal experiences, emotions, relationships, and changing circumstances might lead to different responses.

Through fragmented images, text, and game-based narratives, the project invites participants to question not only their answers, but also how they arrive at them. What are we taking for granted? What have we left out? Would the same answer still make sense in a different situation? Memories and associations become part of this process, opening up connections that a fixed set of rules might overlook.

Rather than guiding everyone toward a predetermined solution, the project uses play to interrupt familiar patterns of thought. The aim is to become more willing to reconsider an assumption, approach a question from another perspective, and leave room for more than one possibility.