This workshop took place at Nida Art Colony in Lithuania during the 5th Interformats Symposium. The participants were invited to come up with apps, wearables and other tactics to resist productivity and instead celebrate procrastination

1. It’s About Time: Introducing the Unproductivity App
The 2015 Inter-Format Symposium
Nida, Lithunania
Romi Mikulinsky
August 2015

2. Beginnings:
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3. Frank and Lilian Gilbreth’s Motion Studies (US, 1910-1920)
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Frank B. Gilbreth’s search for the ‘perfect movement’

4. Frank and Lilian Gilbreth’s Motion Studies (US, 1910-1920)
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a surgeon stitching
a factory worker

5. Notions of Productivity – The Gilbreths
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6. Notions of Productivity – The Gilbreths
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7. Etienne Jules Marey’s Motion Studies (France 1880s)
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8. Wearables for tracking motion - Etienne Jules Marey
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“Homme Squelette” (or skeleton man”)

9. Present Trends:
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10. GTD and productivity apps
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11. QS and Personal Analytics
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12. The present – Wearables
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13. VR, Kinect and motion capture
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14. But what if we want to resist the drive to productivity?

15. Today’s workshop

16. Inspirations:
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17. Marcel Duchamp: Work Avoidance in Art and the
Invention of the Readymades

18. Duchamp

19. Apple Music – UI #Fail

20. How to disorganize your life using Post-its

21. Lets get to work

22. Lets get to work
1. Choose a theme
2. Conceptualize an app
3. This app should assist you in avoiding work
Being less productive
Procratination & wasting time
You can use:
Post its
Wool / cotton threads
scissors
Pens

23. Thank you
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