How to eat an apple at the office 2022
/design research
/video installation
Collaborate with Yoojin Chung
Video link: https://youtu.be/1TdLo3ua8mM
/design research
/video installation
Collaborate with Yoojin Chung
Video link: https://youtu.be/1TdLo3ua8mM
How to eat an apple at the office is an allegory to the idea of interpassivity and the pseudoscience of office layout.
The term interpassivity, is the opposite of inter-activity, describing a state of passivity, particularly cognitive or emotional passivity, enabled or facilitated by the appearance or potential of interactivity. The delegation of an act, can be found in many aspects of our daily lives, for example in media, whereby a piece of art or technology seems to act on the audience or user’s behalf.
Taking the specific context of the Reddit thread “Can you eat snacks at your cubicle/office jobs?”, we considered the different ways of eating an apple as a symbol of hierarchy in the office. Workers are distracted by this “freedom” to eat an apple at their own will. This can be seen as a simple way to encourage a sense of care and belonging to the company, creating underlying pressure of contribution, translating to a new mode of stress.
Employees are captured in this built illusion, where the main problems that exist in the structure of work- spaces are kept disguised and disregarded.
The term interpassivity, is the opposite of inter-activity, describing a state of passivity, particularly cognitive or emotional passivity, enabled or facilitated by the appearance or potential of interactivity. The delegation of an act, can be found in many aspects of our daily lives, for example in media, whereby a piece of art or technology seems to act on the audience or user’s behalf.
Taking the specific context of the Reddit thread “Can you eat snacks at your cubicle/office jobs?”, we considered the different ways of eating an apple as a symbol of hierarchy in the office. Workers are distracted by this “freedom” to eat an apple at their own will. This can be seen as a simple way to encourage a sense of care and belonging to the company, creating underlying pressure of contribution, translating to a new mode of stress.
Employees are captured in this built illusion, where the main problems that exist in the structure of work- spaces are kept disguised and disregarded.
