Taeyoon Choi and E. Roon Kang have a plan to disrupt time. More specifically, they want to ditch standard time in favor of a made-up alternative called "elsewhen." This imaginary time zone would measure each passing minute not by the rotation of the earth but by a person's perception of how much time has gone by.
The idea first struck the duo during a video-chat with clients living on the other side of the world. In this virtual hangout, they existed in a unique timespace they created and shared only momentarily.
"It's almost like we were floating someplace else, between Seoul and New York, and not completely belonging to either," Kang, a TED Fellow, said on stage at one of the organization's retreats, where he recounted their journey.
Over the summer, Choi and Kang decided to make "elsewhen" a reality through a workshop they titled In Search of Personal Time. Here's how their time-traveling adventure played out.
First, Choi and Kang needed to create a clock that would reflect an individual's personal perception of time, rather than counting 86,400 seconds in a day.
This is the personal timekeeper. It's a numeric display powered by the microcomputer Raspberry Pi and encased in balsa wood, with a multipurpose button on top.
One afternoon at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, they handed out the timekeepers to a dozen study participants.
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