In Mango Groups’s first tutorial with Alison we discussed many things, and how our group was still quite unsure where to proceed with our future of work project. Many scenarios came up for us such as how AI could take over 9-5 Jobs, and maybe working would not be a must for people anymore, other scenarios which we discussed were what would work look like in a post-capitalist societhy, in a knowledge economy or in a society with universal basic income,

Whereas all the possibilities of these projects were interesting, the thing which enagaged me a lot was where we all discussed our own personal journeys with work, and thing which all of us mostly had in common was the fact that none of us actually found the work we had done fulfilling. It seemed as if we were all doing what was necessary but it had no passion or room for learning, and work was just a means to an end. This led just to more conversations about where we wanted to take our project. As there were many things that we were all interested in it led us to a brainstorm session where we all sat around the table in our tutor group and started noting down ideas on a paper. This was quite helpful as it allowed us all give our input on what we should base our project on.

After the brainstorming session, we decided that to get more insight into where we want this project to go we decided to do the activity which was to visit a place of work, which was a market.