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what’s stopping us from building soft, hybrid third spaces? [raregarden #5]
phygital garden 𓍢ִ໋🌷͙֒ ᰔᩚ
As the internet grows in size, we feel like we’re surrounded by people and lonely at the same time. It feels increasingly harder to feel safe expressing ourselves authentically in the predominant gathering spaces. We feel like we’re either invisible or presenting at an auditorium. Things have to be more explicit, black-and-white in the new world.... See more
Spencer Chang • tiny internets: sidewalks, geocaching, and more · tiny internets
!!!!!THIS!!!!
Hunkered down in our homes, connected to the world and others through our computers, the technology we perhaps once bemoaned has created a new space for our beings: a hybrid of our physical and digital worlds that is now our new normal.
Designing a Physical-Digital Hybrid Future - Reddymade | NYC-Based Architecture, Design, and Public Art Studio
could think about the covid angle, and how our constraints from that time might have brought the need for hybrid spaces
We talk about somatics in relation to nature, land, therapy, and the earth’s rhythms. But what about this pixelated ecosystem, the one we inhabit for hours each day? The digital world is not neutral. It’s also an environment. It has weather and currents, weeds and nutrients, toxins and compost. It is, in its own strange way, an ecology.
The Nonsense and the Reality of Digital Gardens: Eco-Somatics in the Pixelated World
What if we created spaces for vulnerability, tenderness, softness, and imperfection?
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Imagine, a multitude of spaces where we can be ourselves without the armor, where we can lower our defenses. Where we can trust that we will be cared for and protected. No more masking. Not more code switching. No more pretending.... See more
instagram.comWhen we create safe spaces, time away from screens, ‘Yes, and’ spaces, working with other people over tasks that facilitate connection and craft a narrative that offers a hopeful take on the future, the world can start to come back into focus.
Rob Hopkins • From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
“A gardener is not someone who grows flowers but one who cultivates the soil. You need to delve into the ground’s organic underworld to appreciate the soil’s potential for fostering life.So, to create something truly alive and nourishing, we must be willing to immerse ourselves in the rich, fertile soil of our own humanity — the depths of our... See more
I think this is why happiness found me. I am in conversation with my own becoming. I am in communion with the earth that holds me. The practices that root me. The future I bless each morning. Being present to that weave makes life feel sturdy and soft at the same time.
Joy, castor groves, and earthly echoes
notes on physical space as a medium for aliveness
We aren’t just trying to find meaning and clarity in physical space, but within a digital forest overlaid onto almost every aspect of our lives.
Alexander Beiner • The Sensemaking Companion - Section I
My hypothesis is that making the internet, a place we spend an inordinate amount of time in, feel approachable, cozy, and human is important to us at a fundamental level of our psyche. We want the places we inhabit to feel like homes. We want to personalize and shape these spaces as much as they shape us, and with the internet, that power has... See more