Pleasure in Scarcity

Moments of communal gathering are capable of producing a collective spirit for change. Enacting change is not a question of painful dogmatic limitation, but a question of embracing the opportunity for pleasure in change, says Daniel Parnitzke. The project ’Pleasure in Scarcity’ facilitates a collective exploration of how a future of scarcity could be pleasurable. Rocket stoves are tools for finding 'Pleasure in Scarcity', producing a reason to gather. They are the outcome of a collective on-site construction with context-specific resources. The objects are based on the simple idea of people coming together, building things they need and enjoy using. For Parnitzke, they exemplify how change can occur in simple, joyful acts of creation.