Taking Time, Making Time
In a world shaped by ticking clocks and urgency, Taking Time, Making Time invites a rethinking of how we experience time. This project explores the colonial foundations of timekeeping and their lingering impact on our lives—where value is tied to productivity, and slowness is seen as waste. Drawing from ancient Indian water clocks and communal rituals, it offers a space for reflection, intention, and quiet resistance. Through interactive workshops, it challenges the way we move through our days—not simply to slow down, but to build a more intentional, personal relationship with time. Participants dissolve their written thoughts, resolutions and wishes into the water clock, acting as a reminder that collective experiences can shape time, rather than time shaping society. Rather than offering a break from the clock, these workshops prompt a deeper shift: from seeing time as something to control, to something we can live with, differently.
The accompanying publication gathers participant reflections and visual documentation from the workshops, weaving together historical research, personal narratives, and creative responses. It aims to spark wider conversations about time, inviting readers to question inherited rhythms and imagine new temporalities. By sharing diverse voices and practices, the project seeks to inspire collective action and individual transformation—encouraging a conversation where we question our relationships with time, in hopes of creating a world where the experience of time is diverse and pluralistic.