#10 Ambiguous Standards of Travel:
Cabin Luggage
From The Institute Within An Institute, 2021.
Tourism emerged as an international and mass phenomenon in the mid-19th century. Since then, carriages, trains, and planes have become standard modes of transportation along with suitcases and other storage solutions to carry personal belongings, whereas the modes of travel have become ever multifarious. Today, with roughly six million people taking to the sky daily, the idea of standard cabin-size luggage has become universal. However, cabin-size luggage is subject to an ambiguous standard with variable dimensions and weight depending on the airline (and the entire airfare infrastructure), not to mention the various rules and regulations governing their contents in a world continuously becoming more alarmist and hypervigilant.
From An Institute Within An Institute, 1905
- Contents (15 objects listed in alphabetical order): A diagram of various airlines’ standards for and the contents of an average cabin-size luggage: comb, cotton pads, earbuds, first aid kit, hygienic face mask, liquid containers, pillbox, roll-on, Q-tips, sewing kit, sleep goggles, socks, T-shirt, toothpaste and toothbrush, underwear, universal travel adaptor.