flat packed lunch, 2022
birch ply, lino, pvc, stuffing.
Bread making has always been represented as time and labour intensive, a natural balance that can’t be rushed. I'm exploring the passage of time and its links to labour through the lens of bread and sandwiches.
Sandwiches are comprised of layers. And when picturing time as a sandwich, each filling can be seen as a moment, or an archeological layer we uncover in the future. Archeology has been comprised of the things civilisations throw away, through our waste we can date things through trends and fashions. Our interiors change like our clothing and an industry of fast fashion has taken form in flatpack furniture.
'Flat Packed Lunch" is based on the Frankfurt Kitchen, designed in 1926 by Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky as a “low-cost design that would enable efficient work”. The kitchen was designed around Taylorist principles, the same principles used in the IKEA factory, to save time and increase workflow today. IKEA creates flat pack furniture so that it’s portable (like a meal deal) whilst also saving in production time by making the customer assemble the product themselves. While flat pack furniture pushes labour into the leisure space, the meal deal's ability to be consumed at the desk forces what should be leisure time to take place in the work space.
Bread making has always been represented as time and labour intensive, a natural balance that can’t be rushed. I'm exploring the passage of time and its links to labour through the lens of bread and sandwiches.
Sandwiches are comprised of layers. And when picturing time as a sandwich, each filling can be seen as a moment, or an archeological layer we uncover in the future. Archeology has been comprised of the things civilisations throw away, through our waste we can date things through trends and fashions. Our interiors change like our clothing and an industry of fast fashion has taken form in flatpack furniture.
'Flat Packed Lunch" is based on the Frankfurt Kitchen, designed in 1926 by Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky as a “low-cost design that would enable efficient work”. The kitchen was designed around Taylorist principles, the same principles used in the IKEA factory, to save time and increase workflow today. IKEA creates flat pack furniture so that it’s portable (like a meal deal) whilst also saving in production time by making the customer assemble the product themselves. While flat pack furniture pushes labour into the leisure space, the meal deal's ability to be consumed at the desk forces what should be leisure time to take place in the work space.