Basic semiotic informational level
- What is it?
- What do you see at first sight?
- What do we call it?
Functional layer - What is it made to do?
- What else can it do, what we do not expect?
- Which potential does it have in different contexts?
- Does it raise certain questions? Does it trigger curiosity or certain actions (eg to touch, to open etc.)?
Phenomenological layer
- Which material is it made of?
- How does it feel like? Smell?
- What are its visual, sonic and haptic qualities?
Metaphorical layer - What does it look like?
- What does it behave like?
- Archetypical reference (symbolism).
Contextual layer - Which cultural references does the object have?
- Psychological reference and personal relationship to the object.
- Geographical and scientific context.
- Prejudices about the object.
History of the object
- What is its age, its reparability?
- What is previous ownership?
- Memory of the material (scars). Does it have traces of time?
- Where does it come from?
- Where does it go to die?*
