BURNOUT Process
Burnout
Project ProposalThis project will investigate the burnout culture of corporate workers, partly based on my own experience of working in an office. It feels as if we live in a world of competitive tiredness, long hours and the normalization of never switching off. This research will feed into wearables that will represent the weight of industriousness as well as an ultimate release from it.
The topic will be explored through a number of questions. Some of these relate to the workers themselves and their self-perception. How do they manage the constraints of their job? How do they behave outside of work and what does a holiday mean to them?
Other questions revolve around how I visualize these workers. How can I represent mental exhaustion through objects or garments? What does the body look like when exhausted or running out of time? What does it mean to wear tiredness on the skin? And more broadly, when we spend most of our time indoors bathed in artificial light, how do we attempt to reconstitute our relationship with nature?
Through these explorations, I aim to ultimately portray a worker emancipated, perhaps with their dreams embodied rather than the weight of work.
Design Process
During covid lockdown
Outcome Lineup
As the outcome of this project, I will address the proposed investigation points of exploring
today’s culture of competitive tiredness and the normalization of never switching off by
visualizing the corporate workers losing themselves into their office environment. The
mundane spaces will melt into the equally mundane office wear, which will create garments
where the boundaries between the workspace and the self are blurred.Technical
2019 - 2020
London College of Fashion
London College of Fashion