WHAT IS GOOD: PARTS 1&2 


What is good? I chose clocks. An unusual choice. Out of a long long list of everything from knitting to marmalade, I chose clocks. More specifically, time keeping devices. I asked myself to consider many factors when choosing my 'what is good' within my own personal and creative preferences and ethics, such as politics, sustainability, my own interests etc. I decided to look at time with a view to psychology and sociology. The concept of time is something that has always fascinated me, I started looking at 'Time Discipline'. A term used for the social and economic rules surrounding global time customs. Time Discipline is a specialist area within sociology and anthropology. 


"pioneered by E. P. Thompson in Time, Work-Discipline, and Industrial Capitalism, published in 1967. Coming from a Marxist viewpoint, Thompson argued that observance of clock-time is a consequence of the European industrial revolution, and that neither industrial capitalism nor the creation of the modern state would have been possible without the imposition of synchronic forms of time and work discipline." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_discipline


My aim is to make the user of my 'product' more aware of how they spend their time. I will create something which packages and informs.