#002 MANOEUVRES
TITLE : #002 : THE OWNERSHIP OF TIME (GMT)
This episode we are joined by Ted Hunt, an independent speculative/discursive/critical designer living and working in London and currently a resident of Somerset House Studios.
On the back of developing his most recent project, Circa.Solar, an antidote to our modern obsession with time, Ted takes us back to 1765, when John Harrison won the Longitude prize for his ‘H4 marine timekeeper’, an invention which would change the world forever. For the first time in history, humans were able to link space and time together, which would later lead to the standardisation of time and the establishment of the Prime Meridian and Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).
We delve into the economic, political and social implication of the race towards the ownership of time between Britain and France — and how it became the global standard.
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