Quietly
carrying a secret. Bottled up. Not because one wants to be alone
with it, but because one has no way to tell it. Perhaps for fear
of environmental retaliation, embarrassment, being ostra- cized
by family or friends or colleagues, wrath of others, risk of being
misunder- stood leading to greater isolation, fear of causing someone
else to be misunderstood Many people in our culture are in this
predicament. Victims of domestic violence, outcast children, "normal"
people, addicts, people ending a relationship, outcast adults, the
"familiar stranger" with whom you take the bus everyday
but with whom you have never spoken a word, manic- depressives,
postal workers, people living with disease, your sister-in-law.
This pro- posal offers a design to allow the private somethings
to be uttered, spoken, shared, put out into the public space of
the city in which we live together, by the people harboring inner
states of anything, anytime.
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2.
Mediated communication in public places:
While mediated communication technolo- gies have brought people
at a distance "closer together," they have simul- taneously
brought people physically ad- jacent further apart. (I am certain
the gentleman at the bus stop this morning did not intend to nearly
poke out my eye with his umbrella - wildly gesturing and screa-
ming into his cell phone, he was com- pletely unconcerned with me,
the space, or the rain.) This art and design thesis project aims
to promote active social responsability, offering a way to respond
to others without the intimi- dation of face-to-face contact. This
is the form of personal contact that we have grown away from perhaps
partially as a side effect of communication technologies."
(Kelly
Dobson)
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