The clock ticked as I searched
“Tick, tock, tick, tock.” Time continues to slip through our fingers. The equivalent of two weeks has passed by, and I was able to speak with 13 people about the quality of timeless and the preservation of digital footprint. Those who I spoke with have a variety of backgrounds ranging from designers, architects, information architects, writing, and many other fields.
In a very brief summary, some of the emerging topics include: the tangibility of the digital, experiential sustainability, the fight for attention, the preservation of digital footprint, and the neglecting of senses in the digital.
If you are not bored by this point, below I will expand on my findings from the progress made so far. As there are several more interviews scheduled for the coming week, I will expand on these findings once those conversations conclude.
- Digital bits should be phase-less, to remain contextually relevant.
- Preserving digital footprint inherently requires context and hence emotional and experiential values.
- Upcycling in the digital isn’t necessarily a good thing, friction within interactions isn’t necessarily a bad thing.
- The whole spectrum of emotion should be acknowledged in the digital.
- Emotional and experiential moments can often be summarized in cinematic memories.
- The democratization of digital bits can be enabled by the blurring of the digital and physical environment, since physical manifestations create emotional values.
- In the digital landscape, senses that humans possess are currently prioritized with hierarchies that discriminate certain senses.
- Instead of being built as throw-aways, technology needs to be built to adapt in new ways.
- Existing building culture advocates for functionalities of products’ at the expense of preservation.
Thank you again for being here with me.
