- data streams, data as stream vs. garden. We need to steward this water, it is out of control? ^021526
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- https://hapgood.us/2015/10/17/the-garden-and-the-stream-a-technopastoral/
- some interactive project around creating gardens or bringing streams together?
- We can actively steward it. Water is in our control?
- water as gathering places?
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- currently we gather around these huge oceans that are too big to meaningful engage in. what if we could gather around tiny streams and gardens? little cultivated ponds?
- the memory of water?
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- how it changes forms but carries the memories of its past form, so too does data change forms but still keep memory
- can it show the different forms of your data taking shape?
- Inherited water, how do we take care of it as we grow older?
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- we inherited this immense power of wielding water and data as we wish, but we’ve lost the maintenance of it?
- something along lines of spotify wrapped where you can see where your data has come from?
writing
- write as an external observer looking at the large data streams we gather around, fable-style?
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- moral is to make people believe in smaller streams, the power of taking agency, how they are being lead to be herds rather than empowered individuals
- water as a source of life, we are using life for what?
- show how the current state of technology is concentrated water that is wasted and how it would be much more sustainable if we all cultivated tiny streams. We currently are inundated in the flood. We are drowning in streams. There is a never-ending ocean of data What if we made gardens and tiny pods? ^685ab7
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Water is supposed to be a sign of life but in our data, it has become a sign of death and being overwhelmed
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Can we reorient our technologies towards life by changing our relationship with water to be less like the industrial water bottling industry and more like community gardens, common wells, shared springs, and natural ponds?
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~~ COMPOST ISSUE 03 - Water Bodies ~~
~~ Call For Proposals Form Questions ~~
Please remember to copy + paste these questions to another doc and not draft your pitch here! If you don’t, strangers will see your pitch. (☉_☉ )
Website or link to CV*
Link(s) to writing samples (only if applicable for your piece)
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everyday magic
Title of piece* (working title is fine)
a guide to cultivating a garden on the internet
Media and format* – Check one
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Long form writing
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Short to medium form writing
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Interactive media
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Visual media
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Other
If you are not proposing a written piece, please tell us which file formats we should expect from you. (max 300 characters)
This is a written piece but I talk about ideas for making it an interactive piece of writing, so you can expect a self-contained HTML file as the end output.
How much experience do you have working with the media you’ve proposed using above?* (max. 500 characters)
I’ve written pieces reframing out relationship with technology (like this one for Reboot) and have a lot of experience creating interactive, participatory digital media (a pacman poem game, the pluriverse manifesto, a transforming poems playground, and more). I also write personal essays for my newsletter, and I plan to use a similar, casual tone with this piece.
Describe your piece and your approach* (max. 1200 characters)
(How does your piece relate to the theme? What does it say about the digital commons? What will your creative process be?)
The Internet feels more overwhelming and fragmented than ever before. People yearn for the “old internet,” a time and space full of possibility, facilitating intimacy over shared interests and curiosities that was hard to find in real life.
The internet has always been like a body of water, a gathering place, a formless medium used for necessity and play, but the current state is unsustainable. Over time, our use of the internet has changed from community gardens, wells, and gardens, stewarded by communities, to massive water bottling factories controlled by mega corporations.
How do we reclaim personalizable, cozy spaces for ourselves on the internet again? How can we all become stewards of the internet again?
I want to make an interactive guide to creating a garden on the internet to become an active steward of the commons with a catalog of provoking examples (communally-owned websites, website opening hours, windows into personal lives, how to resist big tech data collection). In addition to a practical guide, it will be an interactive example for what a garden would feel and look like, a participatory piece cultivated by readers submitting what their garden would look like.
- show how the current state of technology is concentrated water that is wasted and how it would be much more sustainable if we all cultivated tiny streams. We currently are inundated in the flood. We are drowning in streams. There is a never-ending ocean of data What if we made gardens and tiny pods?
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Water is supposed to be a sign of life but in our data, it has become a sign of death and being overwhelmed
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Can we reorient our technologies towards life by changing our relationship with water to be less like the industrial water bottling industry and more like community gardens, common wells, shared springs, and natural ponds?
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Estimated total hours*
(How many hours do you expect to spend on your piece? Please keep in mind the timeline above.)
20 hours
Have you had experiences with co-operatives, collective decision making, governance, or publishing? Is there anything else we should know about you?* (max. 800 characters)
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verses
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