Labour

Looking towards a speculative future London, the participants will look critically at the changing nature of labour in one of the world’s financial capitals. With mass automation of production and services, a reliance on algorithmic finance and a growing income gap, the participants will question, speculate and propose forms of labour (in the broadest sense) that power a future London. The students will consider the systems, tools and technologies that might augment or dictate the work of humans as a physical and cognitive presence. The value of the human body as a labour machine will be brought into question in the context of the proliferation or non-proliferation of technology as well as the nature of future political systems that dictate human value as a work object.

The outcomes will be based in a range of media chosen by the participants from prototypes and designs to film or performance.