Through this call we aim to collect visual stories including photography and text in relation to the role of quantification, classification and ordering in life. We will organise three physical exhibitions and one publication based on the received contributions. We will also communicate short-listed submitted work on our website and in the social media. Some themes we are interested in are:

• The role of accounting/quantification/classification in humans’ relations to nature

• Ordering of and in nature and ecological systems

• Role of numbers/quantification in traditions/cultures

• The role of accounting/quantification/classification systems in organisation of work life

• The role of quantification/classification systems and cartographies in organisation of spaces such as cities

• Human body and how it is managed/disciplined through quantification and classifications.

• Human collectives and their regimes of ordering

• Acts of resistance and exceptional situations of overflow and disorder in any of the above

The textual elements of the submissions are an essential aspect of this project and will be featured in our social media and physical exhibitions. For your work to be considered, we encourage you to take the time to develop a text ,be it reflection, a poem or a description to create a visual story around your submission that links to our project themes.

The word “count” can refer both to storytelling as in ‘recounting’ or numerification as in ‘counting’. Numbers and counting are central to how we tell (and are told) stories about our lives and nature. Quantification pervades modern life. We rely every day on a host of numbers to organise our lives and, in turn, our lives are quantified by markets, organisations and governments to shape our behaviors.