Museum of Contemporary Work is a precarious exhibit highlighting artifacts from the recent past, present and future of work.
The MoCW’s third iteration exhibited from January to March 2024 at the Collision Gallery in downtown Toronto, as part of DesignTO, Canada’s largest annual design festival.
The objects, both real and fictional, tell stories of how our daily labours are changing—and how they are changing us.
The artifacts explore themes of identity, inequity, money, meaning and motivation.
Some items have all but disappeared from the workplace. Others are re-emerging as souvenirs. Some are tools. Others inspirational tokens. Each is a symbol of the invisible forces at work in our work.
