Digital gardens and ecosystems
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.
Annika Hansteen-Izora • On Digital Gardens: Tending to Our Collective Multiplicity
Website as garden
Fred Rogers said you can grow ideas in the garden of your mind. Sometimes, once they’re little seedlings and can stand on their own, it helps to plant them outside, in a garden, next to the others.
Gardens have their own ways each season. In the winter, not much might happen, and that’s perfectly fine. You might spend the less... See more
Fred Rogers said you can grow ideas in the garden of your mind. Sometimes, once they’re little seedlings and can stand on their own, it helps to plant them outside, in a garden, next to the others.
Gardens have their own ways each season. In the winter, not much might happen, and that’s perfectly fine. You might spend the less... See more
thecreativeindependent.com • My Website Is a Shifting House Next to a River of Knowledge. What Could Yours Be?
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?
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
To garden is to care deeply, inclusively and audaciously for the world outside our homes and our heads. It’s a way of being that is intimately interwoven with the real truths of existence—not the things we’re told to value (money, status, ownership), but the things that actually matter (sustenance, perspective, beauty, connection, growth).
Georgina Reid • Audacious Gardening: On Daring to Care - Wonderground
A garden is usually a place where things grow.
Gardens can be very personal and full of whimsy or a garden can be a source of food and substance.
We gather and work together in community gardens to share the labor as well as the rewards of a collective effort.
It's a comparison that you can take very far. From "planting seeds" and "pulling weeds" to... See more
Gardens can be very personal and full of whimsy or a garden can be a source of food and substance.
We gather and work together in community gardens to share the labor as well as the rewards of a collective effort.
It's a comparison that you can take very far. From "planting seeds" and "pulling weeds" to... See more