On Digital Gardens: Tending to Our Collective Multiplicity
added by sari and · updated 2mo ago
On Digital Gardens: Tending to Our Collective Multiplicity
- Digital gardens have largely been understood as websites that allow users to explore and publish thoughts in more fluid and unpolished ways. The term “digital garden” is not new. It’s been shaped by almost two decades of pondering, from early tinkerings in Mark Bernstein’s 1998 essay “Hypertext Gardens” to Mike Caulfield’s 2015 talk “The Garden and... See more
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Agalia Tan added 3mo ago
- A digital garden is a framework for speculation around how online space can be designed from the imagination of gardens. Here, the values of gardens, pluralism, interdependence, sustainability, adaptation, and discovery are centered in the design process of technosocial spaces. A garden is made up of the following parts:
Seeds: the content contribut... See morefrom On Digital Gardens: Tending to Our Collective Multiplicity
Agalia Tan added 3mo ago
- Brand and product designer Frank Chimero noted in a 2018 talk at the Substans Conference in Bergen, Norway, that “if we’re setting out to change the character of technology in our lives, we’d be wise to learn from the character of places.”*
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Agalia Tan added 3mo ago
At the same time, as I wander the internet, I wonder where the digital gardens are that will connect me to fellow gardeners more deeply. More often than not, the digital gardens of today are botanic—privately owned online spaces made for visitors to fawn over while a “do not touch” sign looms in view. These private gardens are generative for our p
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sari added 1y ago
- As a kid, gardens and the internet both offered a place to dream, create, and play.
But that was then. Today, the internet is an omnipresent force that organizes the ways we learn, connect, and love—often in ways that are more nefarious than virtuous. The internet is a place, and that place has largely been led by those who value the accumulation of... See morefrom On Digital Gardens: Tending to Our Collective Multiplicity
Agalia Tan added 3mo ago
“ORGANISES”
“if we’re setting out to change the character of technology in our lives, we’d be wise to learn from the character of places.”*
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Keely Adler added 5mo ago
In a techno-social world that is dominantly organized by the pressures of linear feeds, we need digital spaces and frameworks that celebrate the ideas that are seeds just as much as the fully formed blooms.
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Keely Adler added 5mo ago
ore often than not, the digital gardens of today are botanic—privately owned online spaces made for visitors to fawn over while a “do not touch” sign looms in view. These private gardens are generative for our personal learning, but they are far from the communal gardens I grew up in that valued collective work and knowledge. Where are the digital
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Keely Adler added 5mo ago
- Digital gardens believe slow time is beautiful. They are designed to support us in reclaiming our time rather than being organized by it. Digital gardens reject the information highway for the clock where minutes are the lengths of easeful breath.
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Agalia Tan added 3mo ago