A few years ago, I came to the idea to make a quick dystopian science fiction illustration of how I saw the world of the social media and the "connections" between people, distorted by the network. My ugly caricature had unfortunately become a bit too relevant in the year 2020.
Now, that I got to experience the total dependency on means of digital communication, but also, as it seems that the new "normal" in not yet, or at least not yet going to eat the entirety of our social fabric, I feel i should republish the concept. So here it is. Repacked and fresh:
Rendezvous 1.1
A-Social Distancing Hub
A-Social Distancing Hub
Rendezvous
: a meeting with someone that is arranged for a particular time and place and that is often secret
: a place where people agree to meet at a particular time
: a place where many people go to spend time
merriam-webster dictionary
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rendezvous
: a place where people agree to meet at a particular time
: a place where many people go to spend time
merriam-webster dictionary
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rendezvous
A-social Distancing Hub (ADH) facilitates points of intersection (interaction) between our lives in analogue space and the lives of our digital personas.
It offers a safe environment both for our digital and analogue selves. Hence, when two people come to meet there, the space facilitates four personas. It is designed in such way, that none of the four can hurt the other three. They can however, establish a controlled interaction, with whomever they want, in a way they want to do it. The visitors’ privacy, their digital and physical identities and consistencies are protected.
It offers a safe environment both for our digital and analogue selves. Hence, when two people come to meet there, the space facilitates four personas. It is designed in such way, that none of the four can hurt the other three. They can however, establish a controlled interaction, with whomever they want, in a way they want to do it. The visitors’ privacy, their digital and physical identities and consistencies are protected.
So, if a Person A, which consists of Personas A1 and A2, A1 being a person in a “real” world and A2 being a digital “invented” persona, Person A should be able to chose which Persona they want to show in a meeting cell. That way, A1 or A2, can have a meeting with B1, or B2, however they chose, and in a safe way.
ADH is in the middle of the Highway, it's entrances on both sides of it.
The visitors have a precise time, when they need to be there, and they get to enter the door leading to their meeting-cell. The goal is to avoid meeting other visitors.
Once they reach the main body of ADH, they can enter one of the two meeting-rooms.
The meeting-rooms from different entrances across the highway are connected with one another via the glass wall. The visitors can see each other directly, or project their digital persona on to the glass surface.
Let's play!
Belgrade. May 2021
