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Dec
2023
2023
I LOVE MEMES
The premise of the workshop was to reconsider our relationships with digital and physical artefacts.
The participants (5 IED students) were invited to write a narrative based on a dialogue between a physical artefact they cherished, or had an emotional connection with. Each participant then shared their dialogues, while the others tried to guess what their artefact could be based on their description. The discussion followed interesting insights into how we view these artefacts as an extension of memory and embodiment of the people that we share this memory with.
The participants were then asked to perform the same activity of creating a dialogue but this time between them and their cherished digital object. The shared experiences were fun and insightful. Some wrote about their favourite memes, some about a photograph they edited on their phones.
The workshop concluded with everyone comparing the two experiences and describing how writing a narrative for the digital object was slightly more difficult when compared to the physical one, while at the same time they have strong connections with the digital artefacts as well.
This helped me in situating my conceptual framework and working towards building alternative narratives so people can be prompted to questions their relationships with digital spaces and artefacts more readily and effectively.
The participants (5 IED students) were invited to write a narrative based on a dialogue between a physical artefact they cherished, or had an emotional connection with. Each participant then shared their dialogues, while the others tried to guess what their artefact could be based on their description. The discussion followed interesting insights into how we view these artefacts as an extension of memory and embodiment of the people that we share this memory with.
The participants were then asked to perform the same activity of creating a dialogue but this time between them and their cherished digital object. The shared experiences were fun and insightful. Some wrote about their favourite memes, some about a photograph they edited on their phones.
The workshop concluded with everyone comparing the two experiences and describing how writing a narrative for the digital object was slightly more difficult when compared to the physical one, while at the same time they have strong connections with the digital artefacts as well.
This helped me in situating my conceptual framework and working towards building alternative narratives so people can be prompted to questions their relationships with digital spaces and artefacts more readily and effectively.