On Digital Gardens: Tending to Our Collective Multiplicity
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On Digital Gardens: Tending to Our Collective Multiplicity
3. Invest in cyclical growth and sustainability
Digital gardens believe slow time is beautiful. They are designed to support us in reclaiming our time rather than being organized by it. Digital gardens reject the information highway for the clock where minutes are the lengths of easeful breath.
4. Reject linear time
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Digital gardens believe slow time is beautiful. They are designed to support us in reclaiming our time rather than being organized by it. Digital gardens reject the information highway for the clock where minutes are the lengths of easeful breath.
4. Reject linear time
Digital gardens believe time moves ... See more
On Digital Gardens: Tending to Our Collective Multiplicity
Developing the digital garden
Digital gardens have largely been understood as websites that allow users to explore and publish thoughts in more fluid and unpolished ways. The term “digital garden” is not new. It’s been shaped by almost two decades of pondering, from early tinkerings in Mark Bernstein’s 1998 essay “Hypertext Gardens” to Mike Caulfield’s 2015 talk “The Garden and... See more
On Digital Gardens: Tending to Our Collective Multiplicity
A digital garden is a framework for speculation around how online space can be designed from the imagination of gardens. Here, the values of gardens, pluralism, interdependence, sustainability, adaptation, and discovery are centered in the design process of technosocial spaces. A garden is made up of the following parts:
Seeds: the content contribut... See more
Seeds: the content contribut... See more
On Digital Gardens: Tending to Our Collective Multiplicity
we believe in each other’s collective smallness
On Digital Gardens: Tending to Our Collective Multiplicity
“How do you take a walk with someone on the internet?”
On Digital Gardens: Tending to Our Collective Multiplicity
“if we’re setting out to change the character of technology in our lives, we’d be wise to learn from the character of places.”*
On Digital Gardens: Tending to Our Collective Multiplicity
Today, the imagination behind the internet is dominantly shaped by militarization, consumerism, and surveillance. Given the options, I understand the desire to log off and dream in greener places.
On Digital Gardens: Tending to Our Collective Multiplicity
Digital gardens hold a component of discovery where gardeners may be delighted or surprised by what they may find. They are designed to embrace a culture of learning, where one may be open to be changed by ideas.
On Digital Gardens: Tending to Our Collective Multiplicity
“How do you take a walk with someone on the internet?”