What’s In Your Briefcase?
Feb 2022
Done in collaboration with Riya Waykar, Mehar Khurana, Tanvi Malkarnekar
Guided by Kalyani Tupkary, Rucha Joshi
+ Speculative Design
+ Designing Artefacts
Feb 2022
Done in collaboration with Riya Waykar, Mehar Khurana, Tanvi Malkarnekar
Guided by Kalyani Tupkary, Rucha Joshi
+ Speculative Design
+ Designing Artefacts
Speculating the future of productivity in the workplace by designing artefacts that encourage idle time.
The workshop ‘Being Idle’ was aimed to reconfigure our relationship with idleness by exploring alternate temporalities through playful interventions.
This project is a playful intervention challenging the notion of idleness in a world that values productivity. Within a briefcase, the quintessential workplace accessory, lie artefacts from an alternate reality. Objects including a journal, hand cream, and a box of mints have been repurposed and hint at a world where time is valued differently.
These satirical representations traverse the rigid binary through which we live our life. By handling a concept like productivity through a playful lens, we infused the spirit of useless machines and encouraged conversations regarding the necessity of idle time.
This project is a playful intervention challenging the notion of idleness in a world that values productivity. Within a briefcase, the quintessential workplace accessory, lie artefacts from an alternate reality. Objects including a journal, hand cream, and a box of mints have been repurposed and hint at a world where time is valued differently.
These satirical representations traverse the rigid binary through which we live our life. By handling a concept like productivity through a playful lens, we infused the spirit of useless machines and encouraged conversations regarding the necessity of idle time.
A peek at the artefacts:
Look beyond screens.
Connect tête-à-tête.
Sweet dreams are made of Shhhpearmints.
Savour an edible lullaby.
Sloe Hand Cream (5.5cm x 4.5cm x 13cm)
When you need to sit down, take a breather, and encourage your hands to remain idle, rub on some of Sloe’s Heavy Hands.Make sure not to touch anything - Heavy Hands is sticky! The 20 minute interval it takes for this lotion to absorb is the perfect time to relax, meditate, or chat with a friend.
Office Kitchen Pass (11.5cm x 4.6cm x 6.6cm)
For those midday cravings of the culinarily inclined.
Tear a ticket, tickle your tastebuds.
(5.6cm x 5.6cm x 5.6cm)As if solving a standard Rubik’s cube wasn’t hard enough. Always right, always wrong?
Calculator (20cm x 15cm x 3cm)What are numbers if not a social construct?
We bring infinite possibilities. Try your best.
So, what’s inside your briefcase?
︎︎︎ Project feature in the National Institute of Design’s
annual design show magazine.