Making a Place on the Web - Garden
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Making a Place on the Web - Garden
Like other artistic endeavours, garden making can be a response to loss. Creating a garden can be as much a re-creation as a creation; an idea of paradise, something that connects us with a landscape we have loved and which compensates us for our separation from nature.
Sue Stuart-Smith • The Well Gardened Mind
I understand digital gardens as online spaces where many people are coming together to tend to seeds, which can be understood as content. The container that digital gardens are held in is a commitment to sustainability, pluralism, and cyclical growth. It entails adaptation and a culture of learning.
Katja Vujić • Is Somewhere Good the Future of Social Media?
We create the garden as a sort of experience generator, capable of infinite expression and meaning.
The phrase "digital garden" is a metaphor for thinking about writing and creating that focuses less on the resulting "showpiece" and more on the process, care, and craft it takes to get there.