From the Archive: How the tools, innovations, and culture of office labour have shaped human output and values
Words by Elissaveta M.Brandon
Out Of Office explores the evolution of the office and its furniture
If the office is no longer spatial, what has it become? Ripe with potential, this is the question that lies at the heart of
Out Of Office – a site-specific and interactive exhibition co-curated by design practice Soft-Firm, furniture brand TORTUGA Living and design specialist Alex Gilbert.
Located in A/D/O, a former warehouse-turned-creative hub in Greenpoint, Brooklyn,
Out Of Office is a thorough exploration of the evolution of office design spanning a period from 1950 to 2050. “The exhibition is part historical part speculative,” explains Tal Liu of Soft-Firm. “We wanted to have fun with it, but also really examine the cultural, historical and technological factors that are involved.”
teachers and letting people know there are people in the building with a gun. you won t have you won t have these shootings, in my opinion. joining me right now, long time friends, both of whom shielded students during mass shootings. yvonne was the librarian at sandy hook. she barricaded 18 students in a supply closet. when a lone gunman opened fire in parkland florida, diana sheltered 50 students, hiding them in an equipment room. thank you so much for joining us. thank you. when you first heard this notion of guns in the hands of teachers, what did you think? we shook our heads and said that s ridiculous, how can that be. first of all, teachers are supposed to be teaching, that s what i went to school for, 20 years i ve been doing that. and nowhere in that equation was there the thought of having to deal with a gun. and yvonne recently taught
that invoices on an accrual baseis, that may or may not have an impact. try to accelerate your expenses. pay out bonuses. if you have office supplies and you know you ll use them next year, buy a bunch of office supplies this year, take the deduction for it. stick them in a supply closet and use them next year. that s the best thing you can do. we have to talk about the stock market. what a year for stocks. folks were in the stock market this year you really missed a rally. i was looking at a frequent guest on fox business saying he thinks that next year the s & p 500 will gain 15 1/2%. this means that basically if businesses if stocks will be higher and economy booming we ll see jobs in small and large businesses, correct? i don t know if that s correct or not. i m the last person to try to forecast where the stock market
and she still wasn t able to articulate that was a safe way to get out. there were some passengers that had gotten to that doorway, they looked in and i asked, i said is that an exit. and they said no, it s not. at that point you know we all had to make the terrifying decision of are we going to go in through a one way in, one way out supply closet? would it end up being? or are we going to make a run for it through the terminal and try to find a known exit. and at the end of the day, it seemed to be based on where we could hear the proximity of the shooting coming from, it seemed to us that he was shooting upstairs in the ticketing or right outside. and so we all made the choice to go into the storage closet and huddle up. that is a choice that no one ever wants to make. so as you re huddled up in that room hiding, and you re hearing presumably the gunshots, what is going through your mind, what was that like? the first thing i did was i
you an you crew, hundreds of people over there on the side of airport. duane is with me, i understand you re at the ticketing kocount what s going on? well, some of us are huddled in a back supply closet. we were all here in terminal 2 at delta when the shooting started and everybody just sk t scattered. it was mass hysteria and i was next in line to check my bag. i jumped over the counter once i realized it was shooting, and i asked her where the exit was, where do we get out, and she was just frozen and so i kept trying to get her to help us to safety and then there was like this door and it s like a supply closet like the smallest hotel