1989 Tokyo Office
The late-1980s office can be read through the things workers touched and moved through every day: desks, paper files, copy rooms, meeting rooms, fixed telephones, printers and physical locks. This hub gathers the existing OCS Marunouchi records into one workplace archive.
Office Floor
Shared desks, circulation paths and fluorescent-lit space form the physical frame of the workday.
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Office Desk
The desk concentrates paper, writing tools, storage and the worker’s repeated physical routine.
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Meeting Room
A closed room where people and paper documents had to gather in the same place.
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Copy Room
Information sharing required bodies, originals and copied paper to move through a dedicated room.
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File Drawer
Information was stored, labelled, searched for and returned through physical furniture and folders.
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Lockable Desk
Closing and locking a drawer turns information security into a physical end-of-day action.
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Office Telephone
Business communication belonged to a desk and a workplace rather than travelling in a pocket.
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Office Printer
Digital information became a physical sheet that could be carried, filed, copied and handed to someone else.
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