Shake Up The Workplace
A one-day future-of-work unconference at the Kunsthaus in Zurich, six speakers, one of them ours; what survives is the announcement card and ninety-five seconds to camera.
Shake Up The Workplace was a one-day event on the future of work. WeWent ran it at the Kunsthaus in Zurich on 9 March 2020. The card lists six speakers: Yvonne Bettkober of Amazon Web Services, Daniela Landherr of Google, Laust Lauridsen of Brain-friendly Approach, Heiko Fischer of Resourceful Humans, Tarry Singh of Deepkapha, and Nick Van Dam of IE Business School. Unconference is the organisers' word, printed under the title.
There is also a film. Ninety-five seconds, one unbroken take, shot on a phone at home in Drenthe on the evening of 26 November 2019. Green shirt, lavalier mic clipped to the collar, bookshelf and a potted plant behind, the blind already pulled down for the night. No slide, no logo, no title card. The recording never says what it was made for.
The card and the film sit three and a half months apart. The card was circulating by 25 February, less than a fortnight before the date it advertises. The film came first, by a season.
Nothing from Zurich itself is documented: no photographs from the Kunsthaus, no deck, no notes from the day. The date on the card is 9 March 2020. Whether that room filled is unknown, and the question is better left open than closed with a guess.
Shake Up The Workplace! A Future of Work Unconference. By WeWent. Kunsthaus, Zurich, 9 March 2020. Six speaker portraits with names and affiliations; site given as shakeuptheworkplace.com.
Single unbroken take, iPhone 11 Pro Max, 4K, recorded 26 November 2019 at 20:10 local time in Drenthe, the Netherlands. No title card, no on-screen graphics. Source of the frames used on this page.
No recording, programme, photographs, deck or notes from the Kunsthaus have come to us.
