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World identity

The world identity lab is a non-commercial experimental platform, created by moodley brand identity, that looks into different levels of what we call “identity” on a worldwide basis.
The main focus is identity as an overall theme, in its exuberant varieties. The wants and needs of people and the resulting patterns of behaviour within their specific social and cultural environment is the main area of interest. Micro- and macro identities, identity as a social role, identity as identification with a social group, identity as a summary of attributes that differentiate people from each other.

Identity is partly defined by belonging to a particular group and by social roles, the “us”. On the other hand, identity also exists, at least in our society, in the encounter with our own uniqueness, the “me”, which each individual experiences in his or her own way.
Am I woman or wife, sister or colleague, freelancer or animal rights activist, single traveller or Brit? Am I man or husband, employed or Argentine, ambulance driver or social democrat, French or European? What am I? Everything at the same time.

Today identity is not confined to your profession alone. Modern identity is defined by a multitude of identifications and self-perceptions. Everybody has access to an almost indefinite spectrum of micro- and macro identities. These can be found, analysed and challenged in the world identity lab.

What does the world identity lab want?

The world identity lab wants to
- discover
- capture
- cross-link
- uncover and visualize

The platform has a seismographic function, inviting motivated people to contribute to the concept of “identity” with their opinions and observations in a visual or journalistic way.
The goal is to reach interesting personalities worldwide and engage them as contributors to the lab. The vision of the experiment “world identity lab” is to create a worldwide network for interactive information exchange.
In the future our desire is for the network to develop further, from a platform for interaction on an intellectual and emotional level to one of mutual exchange on a commercial level.

How does the world identity lab work?

Our goal is to build a worldwide network through various channels by

a) conducting an intensive search for interesting contemporaries and existing platforms on the internet and collaborating with them

b) initiating projects on an array of topics and obtaining contributions from around the world

see current project

c) publishing printed journals that manifest the subject-matter and the network. These will be posted or, as the case may be, made available to all contributors. The current progress of the publication will be available for monitoring on the website.

see book

The entire process of the project (successes and failures) will be documented by us in the blog on the website and therefore open for comments from each and everyone for discussion.

the people behind

Albert Handler

Director of the World Identity Lab and Innovation Director at moodley. Born in 1969, college for design in Vienna, co-founder of the Halle34 agency, awards from D&AD (British Design & Art Direction), Art Directors Club of Europe and the ADC Germany.

http://www.moodley.at

Anouk Rehorek

Born in 1981 in Basel, Visual Communications at Zurich University of Arts, professional career with Halle34, Graphic Designer at moodley

http://www.mocatishu.ch

Christian Schlager

Born in 1988, Ortwein – institution of higher education for art & design in Graz, Student of Graphic Design at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, Graphic Designer at moodley

http://theworkshop.tumblr.com/

Florian Greimel

Born 1980, Graphic design college in Vienna, co founder of “hey darling“, moved to Dalston (London), now back in Vienna to bring the World Identity Lab to life! Change is the law of life.

http://www.worldidentitylab.net

Mona Venlet