Digital Gardening
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
Annika Hansteen-Izora • On Digital Gardens: Tending to Our Collective Multiplicity
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
Annika Hansteen-Izora • On Digital Gardens: Tending to Our Collective Multiplicity
“With digital gardening, you’re talking to yourself. You focus on what you want to cultivate over time.”
technologyreview.com • Digital Gardens Let You Cultivate Your Own Little Bit of the Internet
creating a digital garden to end my doomscrolling
youtube.comA metaphysical “idea garden” is a mental or virtual space for cultivating creativity, inspiration, and intellectual growth. Here’s a detailed breakdown of this concept:
What Is a Metaphysical Idea Garden?
Not a literal garden but a mental framework: It’s a cognitive and spiritual approach to idea development, where you view your thoughts, inspiration
How to Manage Multiple Interests & Actually CREATE Something
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It is an open collection of notes, resources, sketches, and explorations I’m currently cultivating
Avid readers in particular have embraced the concept, sharing creative, beautiful digital bookshelves that illustrate their reading journey.
That ethos of creativity and individuality was echoed by several people I spoke to.
By engaging in digital gardening, you are constantly finding new connections, more depth and nuance,