Chronographer’s Workshop
DEC 2019
While in the Designed Realities class, I was introduced to Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman – a fictional collage of stories dreamed by Albert Einstein while shaping his theory of relativity. Within these dreams, diverse worlds emerge, each revealing a unique concept of time. Intrigued, I created the Chronographers Workshop—a space to reimagine clocks for these temporal realms.
In one of the worlds, ‘there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time. The first is as rigid and metallic as a massive pendulum of iron that swings back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. The second squirms and wriggles like a bluefish in a bay. The first is unyielding, predetermined. The second makes up its mind as it goes along’. Here is a glimpse of what that chronograph might look like.
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A chronograph for the time 'felt’ – it responds to the the heartbeat rather than standard seconds. Discovered in public squares, it provides a communal space where everyone contributes to an emerging sense of time. There are no numbers; instead, it shapeshifts as all heartbeats synchronize.
