Flat Pack

14 Nov-22 Nov 2012

Overview

‘FLATPACK’ is a celebration of technicians and their work. We tend to think of a distinction between manual and mental labour, a binary played out and socially reinforced from school onwards, the doer and the thinker. This division exists across the world of work – workers/managers – and is even played out at a university level, where as a student we find ourselves confronted with two levels of tutor, the academic and the technician. These categories assert themselves as real distinctions in status and pay, but also reinforce this artificial binary between thinkers and doers.