The Futures of Work

At the exhibition from September 1, 2018 to June 2, 2019

»The Futures of Work« is a project on how the world of work is changing. Nefula has designed an infographic, the »Future Map«, which depicts and highlights the correlations between six different concepts, offering the possibility of an overview on possible futures of work.

The project investigates six feasible future directions around the work topic, each followed by a specific question: 

- Human–machine replaceability (What if you could be replaced by robots?)
- Leisure time and 24/7 work (How might leisure time transform in the emerging 24/7 culture?)
- Social rank dictatorship (How does computationally calculated social ranking influence work, careers, and professional relationships?)
- Data-driven careers (What happens when your boss is an algorithm?)
- AI-human competition (What are the skills that allow people to compete with AI?)
- Replaceable human commodities (What happens when platforms transform human beings into replaceable commodities?)

The complete project of which the »Future Map« is the visual and metaphoric representation, takes the form of six interactive objects and fake TV show videos. These are the output of the 2016/2017 class of Transmedia Design from the Communication Design Master at ISIA Firenze (IT), taught by Salvatore Iaconesi and Oriana Persico, where Nefula had a tutoring role for the entire duration of the project.