The Anti-Planner Calendar

Generated By Figma AI

Our “Anti-Calendar” is a digital calendar made with Figma AI that looks identical to a traditional calendar, following a typical, mundane, polished design. Instead of helping users manage their schedules, The Anti-Calendar places absurd tasks and time labels. This piece hijacks the usual structure and discipline of daily life by replacing regular tasks with inefficient ones. The “Anti-Calendar” makes data-points that can be tracked (exam dates, class schedules, meetings, etc.) unpredictable, and therefore untrackable. When users try to input their usual tasks, our calendar replaces it with a random untrackable task. Our calendar works against productivity; it doesn’t care about deadlines or timelines. It only cares about the absurd, yet familiar truths that we perform without calendar reminders.

The “Anti-Calendar” hijacks the usual structure and discipline of daily life by replacing trackable data with moments of absurdity. Calendars use our data and feed it into larger systems, which can be surveilled and exploited. Our calendar works against surveillance capitalism by turning our daily habits into inexploitable data, denying systems their usual access to user information. This intervention shows the viewer how digital every day tools control our behaviour. Our Calendar transforms sites of discipline into a playful resistance, challenging the notion that everyday has to be scheduled, structured, and organized. The “Anti-Calendar” encourages viewers to live unproductively, spontaneously.