Our Journal/Diary Proposal

So we met last week to discuss our project and the direction we are heading towards with our final intervention.

 

We discussed our guerrilla style interventions into the spare times of others and how they had been developing. Our initial aim in our project was to tackle the idea of peoples leisure time and challenge whether free time was in fact just wasted time. We wanted to provide people with the means to break away from the monotony of simply letting time waste on by, by intervening into these situations of their lives.

 

As a group we talked about challenging such areas as the tube and travel, whether it be to or from work or even a journey as part of a persons leisure. We wanted to tackle the notion of waiting in queues or waiting rooms and see whether this time could be more fulfilled. Personally, I wanted to provide people with a creative outlet whilst queueing in the cafes in which i work so that the time they spend waiting, instead of standing in frustrated, longing silence could be spent doing something creative; something that could provide greater fulfilment of that time.

 

I also wanted to see if the actual time we spend working which is not generally deemed wasted time as we are being rewarded (paid) for that time, could be intervened with. I wanted to see if i could steal back work time and times that were not productive towards labour could be transformed into moments of leisure I therefore over the last month have been trying to coerce my fellow employees, as well as myself, to steal back some of this time.

 

Whilst discussing these interventions of trying to transform what could be deemed as wasted time of others, it dawned on us that in order to coherently understand this we needed to examine the areas of our own lives that were seen as work, leisure or wasted time. It became clear that we could not determine the time of others effectively, until we had examined our own. Therefore, last week we decided to make a diary/journal of our routine and goings of that week. We wanted to do this so that we could outline and breakdown the time in which our free time is effected by external factors and decide whether our own free time is truly our own.