When Adrian informed us in the last ‘unlecture’, that Google gives its employees a day off per week to speculate and undertake this process of design fiction I had to do some research. Verdict??? It literally is THE place to be.

What better way is there to motivate your stuff than by to provide them with a day of to simply dive into their own unique ideas that are eventually  (if appropriate) considered and utilized by the company itself.  Google was so successful, in my eyes, because, as mentioned on the symposium in this weeks lecture, “they speculated about a new way to organise information on the internet” , and then did exactly that. The importance of this speculation thing is really underplayed in our society.

I get it. It’s a bizarre concept. There’s really no control. It’s you… a pencil (or should I say an ipad/iphone/laptop)… and your ideas. It’s hard, when you don’t have a structure to abide by. Where all you really have is your ability to speculate.

I’m definitely considering becoming an employee of Google (perhaps not solely on the basis that they provide you with free food; but it’s a salient factor). I found an interesting article  about Google and its perks by James.B.Stewart . Definitely an interesting read.