Around the world, work goes through a crisis. Increasingly, work is considered bad for your health: stress, an awesome to try to to list, and long hours sitting at a desk. Belief in work is additionally crumbling among children . More and more, work feels pointless or socially damaging. Recent estimates suggest that between a 3rd and a half all jobs might be appropriated by AI within the next 20 years . Other forecasters doubt whether work are often sustained in its current toxic form on a warming planet.
.。o○●～* What society could be like if all production was automated, the material abundance produced was equitably distributed, and nobody worked at all?
．☆．。．. How would a city without work look like?
We’re launching a call for artists to create artworks with their vision of how a city would look like, in a world where we don’t have to work to sustain ourselves. Will the next wave of automation return us to an age of craftsmanship and artistry? Would it be a future not of consumption but of creativity?
．☆．。．. Leave your imagination to wander, and create a piece of art: it can be a painting, an illustration, a website, an AR effect, or an essay. Check the details on the website:
☆ミ 1st of January- 30th of June 2021 : Submit your artwork
Upload your contribution on our website: https://postwork.city/, or on Instagram, using the hashtag #postworkcity
☆ミ Be featured in an online exhibition
☆ミ Participate in a roundtable discussion in the summer
