Leisurely Labor

An embedded kinetic energy generation infrastructure & product landscape that speculates on the underutilized, overly repetitive, and predictive movements of the daily mundane.


When we continue to opt for convenience, do forms of kinetic energy extraction further impose a form of stasis?

Can manual laboring masses afford more extraction?

Overview

Movement, from its grand exclamations to its minute efforts, carries an identity—a cultural language informed by the objects we use to the places we occupy. It appears during the morning commute, on the phone, & at the dinner table.

Our daily experience involves a set of monotonous tasks & behaviors embedded in the technological devices we engage in & the increasingly optimized lifestyles we lead. These repetitive actions have relegated our bodies to the micro-gesture, short-length, minimally extensive movements as our dominant form of interaction.