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Jon Haidt argues that humans evolved a capacity to transcend the self and merge with a group, and that synchronized movement is one of the primary triggers for this collective state.
Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz discuss several of their virtual space and telecommunications projects. They show videos which document Hole in Space (1980), Electronic Café (1984), and Aesthetic Research in Tele-Communications (1975-1982). They describe virtual space as the theme of their work and draw parallels to architecture.
This paper looks at taking photos as increasing enjoyment by promoting deeper engagement. By prompting individuals to actively look for things to capture, taking pictures directs greater visual attention to their surroundings.
This paper looks at unique factors associated with the delivery of mindfulness-based interventions and the potential conceptual and practical pitfalls of not recognizing the features of this broadly unfamiliar landscape.
Conventional wisdom among museum professionals is that art museum visitors do not spend much time viewing works of art. The purpose of this study was to empirically investigate that question as well as to look at the relationship that age, gender, and group size have on viewing times.
“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.
A core text from positive psychology providing ways of talking about character strengths and measuring them across the life span, this classification will start to make possible a science of human strengths that goes beyond armchair philosophy and political rhetoric.Foundational to our framework.
