Active Sitting Solutions

Our daily routines are increasingly spent sat at a screen. We shop, bank and even socialize online.

Get out of that office chair — before it kills you.

The 9-to-5 workweek has been a standard of American labor law for decades: It’s the standard by which full employment is measured by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, by most economic indexes, even by Obamacare.

Unfortunately for American workers, the average employee’s “40-hour workweek” is actually 47 hours, according to Gallup. It’s even worse for salaried employees, most of whom aren’t eligible for overtime pay. The average non-hourly American worker spends 49 hours per week at the office — with one in four reporting that they spend more than 60 hours per week at work. That’s a 12-hour shift every day, Monday through Friday.

Got your own ideas for art in this digital age? You have two more days to submit those ideas to The Space’s Open Call. The selected entrants receive training, monitoring, an online platform, and, collectively, up to £100,000 in commissions.

Hardly Working: Standing Desk [Click to watch]