Dear reader,
I’m not sure there’s a way to explain this that will make sense outside our household…
For the past week, our feet have taken on personalities of their own. I mean that quite literally. Each foot now has its own voice and behavior. For instance, my right foot has become Uno’s best friend. They bond by mocking me. Uno will tell my right foot, named “Foot”, to say that Dada (me) is a silly goose. Foot obeys, and they both burst into laughter.
This goes on for hours. And when it’s time for bed, Uno lies down in reverse so he can chat with Foot before falling asleep.
With care,
Kristoffer
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Andrew Trousdale: Apossible
Andrew Trousdale is a researcher and designer.
What is Apossible?
We're a non-profit research and design initiative bringing together creatives, technologists and psychologists to create technologies that bring out the best in us.
Why did you start it?
My background is in a field called positive psychology, which studies human flourishing. Whereas much of psychology focuses on illness and disorder, positive psychology focuses on building on strengths and virtues. So much of the conversation around technology focuses on what can go wrong, how it can derail human flourishing. There’s nothing wrong with that, and its important work. But we started apossible to try to imagine what can go right.
Who or what inspired you?
From the outset, creative technologists and the projects they produce have filled me with hope about the role that technology can have in life, the place that it can fill. I really believe technology can make life much better if it's used with the right intentions and toward the right ends. I love seeing how the creative technology community explores and experiments with the difficult question: what should technology be for?
You can stay updated with Apossible on Instagram or by subscribing to the newsletter on their website.
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Field Notes
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Solar Social. I believe that whatever social software or application comes next should ideally not imitate any of the existing ones. Maybe thinking with the sun could help us bridge our imagination into new territories? We would even need siestas in high summer.
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Cursor games. The creator behind some of the wildly popular browser games such as One Million Checkboxes and One Million Chessboards writes about some experimental games he is making using only the cursor’s text-selection function. (Nolen, if you are reading this, please make these public).
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Joanie 4 Jackie. How did I not know about Miranda July’s videotape chain letter project? Please, readers, if you know of any experimental publishing projects, new or old, could you send them to me? Or write them in the comments? Thank you so much.
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Calls for Participation: Believers Grant (Due 30/6), Peckham Digital (Due 30/6), Tiny Awards (Due 30/6), HCI.Place (Due 1/7), MFRU31 (Due 7/7), Taper #15 (Due 15/8), and The Wrong Biennale (Due 15/9).
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Poetic Web Calendar: Pagasa (29/6, Chicago), DxD25 (3-4/7, London), HTML in the Park (5/7, Toronto), Vector Festival (Toronto, 10-20/7), FWB Fest (Idyllwild, 1-3/8), HTML Day (World wide, 2/8), HTML in Hyde #1 (Sydney, 2/8), What Hackers Yarn (Geestmerambacht, 8-12/8), and POST Design Festival (Copenhagen, 12/9).
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