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On Digital Gardens: Tending to Our Collective Multiplicity
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.
On Digital Gardens: Tending to Our Collective Multiplicity
3. Invest in cyclical growth and sustainability
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.
4. Reject linear time
Digital gardens believe time moves ... See more
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.
4. Reject linear time
Digital gardens believe time moves ... See more
On Digital Gardens: Tending to Our Collective Multiplicity
Developing the digital garden
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 more
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 more
On Digital Gardens: Tending to Our Collective Multiplicity
“ORGANISES”
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 more
Seeds: the content contribut... See more
On Digital Gardens: Tending to Our Collective Multiplicity
“How do you take a walk with someone on the internet?”
On Digital Gardens: Tending to Our Collective Multiplicity
“How do you take a walk with someone on the internet?”
On Digital Gardens: Tending to Our Collective Multiplicity
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.”*
On Digital Gardens: Tending to Our Collective Multiplicity
value practice over perfection.
On Digital Gardens: Tending to Our Collective Multiplicity
Today, the imagination behind the internet is dominantly shaped by militarization, consumerism, and surveillance. Given the options, I understand the desire to log off and dream in greener places.