Time
Time promotes the integration of unstructured moments within structured settings to allow space for creativity, reflection, and collective redesign. This principle challenges rigid scheduling, recognising that creativity, connection, and deep learning often thrive in flexible and less prescriptive environments. By making space for spontaneity and rest, we resist productivity-driven practice and value presence, relationships, and regeneration. Choosing slower, cyclical rhythms over constant output helps prevent burnout, nurtures wellbeing, and supports more sustainable and generative forms of collaboration.
Suggested Applications
- Build in structured pauses and spaces during events, conferences, and meetings, such as quiet zones, communal meals, or end-of-day reflection sessions, to support processing and recalibration.
- Provide communal areas like kitchens, wellbeing rooms, and reading spaces in public events and studio settings to encourage informal exchange and unplanned collaboration.
- Design project timelines with slower pacing that allows for incubation and reassessment rather than constant production. (E.g. flexible schedules, hybrid participation, sabbaticals, or community co-design activities).
- Block out collective rest periods in the calendar, such as seasonal breaks or cultural outings together.