Architecture and design collective Edit has designed a vacuum cleaner that requires three people to operate as a feminist thought experiment to draw attention to women's unwaged domestic labour.
Called Gross Domestic Product, the three-way Hoover is currently on display at the Oslo Architecture Triennale.

The vacuum cleaner concept is part of Edit's project Honey I'm Home, which responds to the triennial's theme of the architecture of degrowth.
Because the vacuum cleaner can't be used alone, its design encourages a group of users to share the task of cleaning a room equally. The three nozzles attached to a central body would all need to be used simultaneously for it to be operated successfully.

"We looked into the props that we find in our homes, specifically those designed for domestic labour," Edit member Alberte Lauridsen told Dezeen. "These tools are also mostly designed to be used privately, and are therefore complicit in the patriarchal system of unpaid reproductive work that happens behind the scenes," she added.
"We want to challenge the rituals that surround these props by making simple tweaks to traditional domestic spaces and objects. The hoover is an example of one scale that could be changed in order to start changing our culture around sharing and reproductive labour."

Edit created the three-way cleaning kit to encourage visitors to the Oslo Architecture Triennale to imagine an "alternate trajectory" where people liv...