On Work: Invisible Labour

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On Work: Invisible Labour

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Aug 30, 2018

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What part of your work are you least valued for? What aspects of your work life are invisible? Do we seek to make them visible or not...what are the implications for interspecies and posthuman landscapes? We teamed up with the Dutch Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale and Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam.

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Aug 30, 2018

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