What's In Your Briefcase?

Skills Research, Speculative Design, Digital Exhibition

Duration 1 week

With Nikita Dhamija, Mehar Khurana, Tanvi Malkarnekar

Thanks Kalyani Tupkary, Rucha Joshi

Feb 2022

What’s In Your Briefcase?

Speculating the future of productivity in the workplace. How may we use speculative design to create spaces for discussion and debate on alternate ways of being, and encourage people's imagination to flow freely?

Sloe Hand Cream
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.

ShhpearmintsSweet dreams are made of Shhhpearmints.
Savour an edible lullaby.

Office Kitchen Pass

For those midday cravings of the culinarily inclined.
Tear a ticket, tickle your tastebuds.

Laptop

Look beyond screens.
Connect tête-à-tête.

A world where idle time is valued differently…

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.

So, what is inside your briefcase?

Explore more artefacts at our website!

“Life is a combination of magic and halwa.” This is Rajat Shukla’s Office Kitchen pass, allowing him to prepare a 2 hour midday feast for his team in the kitchen of his IT job.

“Speculative design addresses design’s inherent optimism.” - Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby

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