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“We already feel a latent connection to those in our communities even if we don't know them: regulars at the cafe, those who love the same park bench, our neighbors we pass on the street.That bond activates with a surprising strength when we learn something intimate about them.”
This essay explores the concept of rituals in online spaces, suggesting that it's time to intentionally create and implement rituals that can benefit our online relationships and experiences, rather than waiting for them to emerge organically.
This paper starts from the notion that meaningful and/or enjoyable experiences (i.e., wellbeing) are a major outcome of technology use, and investigates how these experiences are further shaped by social context, such as potential spectators.
"Rituals are to time what a home is to space: they render time habitable."In this book, Byung-Chul Han provides a genealogy of the disappearance of ritual as a means of diagnosing the pathologies of the present, without giving in to nostalgia.
In Thought as a System, best-selling author David Bohm takes as his subject the role of thought and knowledge at every level of human affairs, from our private reflections on personal identity to our collective efforts to fashion a tolerable civilization. Elaborating upon principles of the relationship between mind and matter first put forward in Wholeness and the Implicate Order, Professor Bohm rejects the notion that our thinking processes neutrally report on what is 'out there' in an objective world."...if you have found the words which express the way you are actually thinking, the body will be affected."
"The point isn't to be anachronistic. It's to show that it's possible to have a perfectly usable phone that goes as far from having a touchscreen as I can imagine, and which in some ways may actually be more functional" - Justine Haupt
“I always believed that the function of art is the function of the bridge. To bridge different people from different social backgrounds. Different religious beliefs. Different races. But it is also about communication between physical world and spiritual world. Or simply between two human beings.”- Marina Abramovic
Breathing Pavilion comprised a 30-foot circle of 20 nine-foot two-tone illuminated inflatable columns. These columns slowly modulated in brightness to illustrate a deep breathing technique designed to bring calm. Visitors were invited to breathe in time with the changing light and attune themselves to a shared rhythm of respite.
