Installation view Products for Organising; 2015.
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Installation view Products for Organising; 2015.
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Installation view Products for Organising; 2015.
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Installation view Products for Organising; 2015.
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Installation view Products for Organising; 2015.
Photo by Jens Ziehe.
Installation view Products for Organising; 2015.
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Installation view Products for Organising; 2015.
Photo by readsreads.info.
Installation view Products for Organising; 2015.
Photo by readsreads.info.
Installation view Products for Organising; 2015.
Photo by Jens Ziehe.
Installation view Products for Organising; 2015.
Photo by readsreads.info.
Installation view Products for Organising; 2015.
Photo by Jens Ziehe.
Installation view Products for Organising; 2015.
Photo by readsreads.info.
Installation view Products for Organising; 2015.
Photo by readsreads.info.
Installation view Products for Organising; 2015.
Photo by Jens Ziehe.
Installation view Products for Organising; 2015.
Photo by readsreads.info.
Installation view Products for Organising; 2015.
Photo by readsreads.info.
Installation view Products for Organising; 2015.
Photo by Jens Ziehe.
Installation view Products for Organising; 2015.
Photo by Jens Ziehe.
Installation view Products for Organising; 2015.
Photo by Jens Ziehe.
Installation view Products for Organising; 2015.
Photo by Jens Ziehe.
Installation view Products for Organising; 2015.
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Installation view Products for Organising; 2015.
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Installation view Products for Organising; 2015.
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Installation view Products for Organising; 2015.
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Installation view Products for Organising; 2015.
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Installation view Products for Organising; 2015.
Photo by readsreads.info.
Installation view Products for Organising; 2015.
Photo by Jens Ziehe.
Installation view Products for Organising; 2015.
Photo by Jens Ziehe.
Installation view Products for Organising; 2015.
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Products for Organising interrogates contemporary “radical” corporate management practices, and the antecedent forms that may have inspired them. Translating layered histories of governance into a visual form, it probes the aesthetics of corporate work, consumerism, and organizational thinking to reveal their underlying ideologies, scrutinizing technology’s role in shaping global culture more broadly.

One side of this history made visible in Products for Organising is the legacy of hacking – illustrated through objects like computers, T-shirts, and magazines – which, the project suggests, counter-intuitively gave rise to today’s management culture. On the other side, floor plans from the headquarters of commercial tech companies such as Zappos and Apple, alongside the British intelligence and security agency, GCHQ, displayed in parallel, shed light on the similarities between their managerial structures. Products for Organising shows that different organizational models, drawn from different political and cultural contexts, can result in equally effective strategies – but also begs the question, effective for whom?

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