Social Technology Summit

Abigail Schoneboom (US)

Project Skive: Creative Timewasting and the English Worker

Project Skive, and the time-reclaiming practices it celebrates, signifies the technologically enabled emergence of a public discourse on work-life balance that is deeply critical of corporate values, which are producing ecological devastation. Overwork culture and “presenteeism” have been blamed for perpetuating over-consumption and discouraging political engagement among employees who spend increasingly long hours at work without necessarily being any more productive.

To set up your own Skive click here http://www.bonkworld.org/skive

Abigail is a sociologist, based at The City University of New York, where her research focuses on “creative resistance,” looking at workers who reclaim time from their jobs to pursue their own intellectual and artistic projects. Her sociological research is heavily informed by her interdisciplinary background, which includes a Masters degree in engineering from Oxford University, and over ten years of professional experience as a web designer and new media developer in the United States.

There will also be a Project Skive Kiosk set up in the conference venue