tiny internets is a research inquiry attempting to answer the question:

What does a more natural, soft, and quiet internet look like, one where the public spaces are actively shaped by us to not only use but live in?

And also

How do we facilitate serendipitous intimacy on the internet?

How do we make people aware that they are co-inhabiting a space

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For the last decade the web has served up bite-sized information like cheap fast food. But the new web just might give us that nutritious gourmet meal we’ve been waiting for. And why not? For my part, I find the whole notion rather appetizing.

My current-day interaction with the internet seems to contain ever fewer of these portholes and chance encounters. If the internet is a superhighway, it feels like there are fewer exits, and you’re expected to keep traveling to the same places over and over again, based on your past behavior (and purchasing history). In fact, the highway always see

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