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LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
MESSAGE FROM THE ACTING DIRECTOR
SCHOOL OF ART
ABOUT THE SITE
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LORIN AUGER REN LAM HALLEY RITTER
LEANDRA BRANDSON WENDY LLOYD EMILY ROFFEY
TAYLER BUSS CHASE MARTIN BENNY SUN
DEANNA DAVIS KARRIE McEWAN SARAH THOMPSON
EDTIE DOLL ARA PENNER RACHEL WAGNER
TAMIKO KAVANAGH HANNA REIMER ERNEST ZARZUELA
BENNY SUN
This project with Act as its theme use the proposition of Anti-efficiency, creating an insinuative visual language to arouse thinking from audiences, so as to try to slow down people’s pace in this high speed society.

The project satires this distorted high strength working culture in Asian countries, attempting to criticize the abnormal society of potentially encouraging people to work overtime seeking efficiency and speed.

In terms of this specific cultural phenomenon of encouraging working hours, I began with building on a more conceptual and theoretic visual expression. These ideas involves in more social and political references, dug into the office space, drew from not only talking about working system but also discussed the physical and psychological movements in workspaces.

The office cubicle is a somewhat partitioned space for one or several workers in what is otherwise an unpartitioned and open building space for offices. It is arguably the most loathed of all office layouts. Such preconceptions are accurate, as research reveals cubicles tend to reduce employee morale and productivity. Another study found they cause conflict, high blood pressure and increased staff turnover. This capital logic made every worker who involved in the system act like a rat on the wheel. The attempt of anti-efficiency is to give a moment to detach oneself from the normal experiences they take for granted from consumerism culture.

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