Making a Place on the Web - Home
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- So the home is existentially grounding, a place of comfort that “permits people to fashion in their own image”, a “setting for personal seclusion and intimate behaviour free from public comment or restraint.” (View Highlight)
- I want a space where I can really shape it so that, for example, the first thing I see when I opened up my laptop is a livestream of a place that’s currently having its sunrise.
What opens up when we think about the desktop as a bedroom? (View Highlight)
- What if all those various social medias, each a different mask we create, are connected to our ‘bedroom’ in some explicit way?
 (View Highlight)
- Expanding the home, what if our room is connected to a ‘living room’? I’m thinking of a more modifiable sort of group chat, with ‘channels’ as rooms.
Maybe on the ‘door’ that connects your bedroom to the living room, some of the material that you’ve collected over the day can show up, and so when they ask you how your day was, you could walk them through all the cool scenery that you’ve come across. (View Highlight)
- When I’m thinking about that living room, and inviting guests over to it — I want it to be something where there’s a stronger sense of co-creation, where just by looking at the space, you get a sense of the different mixes, the different ‘fingerprints’ of people.
 (View Highlight)
- Merleau-Ponty has this lovely line where he says that “the body is not in space like things; it inhabits or haunts space”.
How might we make a space that’s worth haunting? More importantly, if we can’t “fashion” the space “in our own image”, can we ever really create a home that we can truly dwell in?
I think that in working on shaping better homes, we can get better at creating other spaces that wrinkles the eyes and make them twinkle.
One day, I’d love to visit everyone’s own unique campfires that affords them the comfort to relish in and freedom to express out the delights of the universe. (View Highlight)
title: “Making a Place on the Web - Home”
author: “vincentli.space”
url: ”https://garden.vincentli.space/making-a-place-on-the-web---home”
date: 2023-12-19
source: reader
tags: media/articles
Making a Place on the Web - Home
Metadata
Highlights
- So the home is existentially grounding, a place of comfort that “permits people to fashion in their own image”, a “setting for personal seclusion and intimate behaviour free from public comment or restraint.” (View Highlight)
- I want a space where I can really shape it so that, for example, the first thing I see when I opened up my laptop is a livestream of a place that’s currently having its sunrise.
What opens up when we think about the desktop as a bedroom? (View Highlight)
- What if all those various social medias, each a different mask we create, are connected to our ‘bedroom’ in some explicit way?
 (View Highlight)
- Expanding the home, what if our room is connected to a ‘living room’? I’m thinking of a more modifiable sort of group chat, with ‘channels’ as rooms.
Maybe on the ‘door’ that connects your bedroom to the living room, some of the material that you’ve collected over the day can show up, and so when they ask you how your day was, you could walk them through all the cool scenery that you’ve come across. (View Highlight)
- When I’m thinking about that living room, and inviting guests over to it — I want it to be something where there’s a stronger sense of co-creation, where just by looking at the space, you get a sense of the different mixes, the different ‘fingerprints’ of people.
 (View Highlight)
- Merleau-Ponty has this lovely line where he says that “the body is not in space like things; it inhabits or haunts space”.
How might we make a space that’s worth haunting? More importantly, if we can’t “fashion” the space “in our own image”, can we ever really create a home that we can truly dwell in?
I think that in working on shaping better homes, we can get better at creating other spaces that wrinkles the eyes and make them twinkle.
One day, I’d love to visit everyone’s own unique campfires that affords them the comfort to relish in and freedom to express out the delights of the universe. (View Highlight)