With “World at Work“, Theo Deutinger and his team project the amount of inhabitants per time-zone onto the earth as ‘Time Machine’. By assuming that the average working day around the world is from 9.00am to 5.00 pm, they came to the conclusion that there is a strong imbalance in the distribution of workforce. One can almost talk about a day and night on earth. The world as ‘Time Machine’ is visualized by its course around the sun (together with its three neighbour planets) and its spinning around its own axis. On top of its self-rotation a graph with the amount of inhabitants is projected.

The third element of the visualisation is the addition of all the working population of one global working day and shows how many people are working, relaxing or sleeping. This visualisation is shown either in real time, or can be released and speeded up at the users will. All three parts of the visualisation are interconnected as programmed clockwork that shows time by mimicking reality.

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