Temporal Awareness & Digital Interactions in End of Life.
Time Moving 3 echoed prior work, representing concepts of time and memory layered with communication via direct messaging, provoking questions about how we express ourselves and adopt/abandon technology during experiences of end of life.
Time Moving 1 and Time Moving 2 engaged in public making of timelines through storytelling utilizing participatory materials with the intention of creating an environment for the public to express and explore temporal awareness at end of life. This public experience engaged in questions of disorientation/orientation to time horizons – an integral aspect to decision making and communication at the end of life.
Time Moving 3 was made up of three panels, each panel directed the viewer to reflect on their experiences with end of life and how their digital interactions influenced their perception of time in these moments. Panel one showed an ambiguous timeline made up of text similar to communications found in emails, texts, direct messages, etc. In panel two we asked the viewer to respond to the prompt "How do you feel about communicating digitally during times of dying?" Participants wrote their answers on a small black card and posted them onto the exhibit. In panel three participants were invited to take a button that resonated with their own perception of time in dying. The button images were pulled from previous versions of Time Moving in which participants had drawn abstract timelines of how they saw death and dying timelines in their own experiences.
This exhibit was up from January 17th-26th, 2020 at Artscape Youngplace in Toronto ON., Canada and was included in the DesignTO 2020 program.
Time Moving 1 and Time Moving 2 engaged in public making of timelines through storytelling utilizing participatory materials with the intention of creating an environment for the public to express and explore temporal awareness at end of life. This public experience engaged in questions of disorientation/orientation to time horizons – an integral aspect to decision making and communication at the end of life.
Time Moving 3 was made up of three panels, each panel directed the viewer to reflect on their experiences with end of life and how their digital interactions influenced their perception of time in these moments. Panel one showed an ambiguous timeline made up of text similar to communications found in emails, texts, direct messages, etc. In panel two we asked the viewer to respond to the prompt "How do you feel about communicating digitally during times of dying?" Participants wrote their answers on a small black card and posted them onto the exhibit. In panel three participants were invited to take a button that resonated with their own perception of time in dying. The button images were pulled from previous versions of Time Moving in which participants had drawn abstract timelines of how they saw death and dying timelines in their own experiences.
This exhibit was up from January 17th-26th, 2020 at Artscape Youngplace in Toronto ON., Canada and was included in the DesignTO 2020 program.
Acknowledgements.
Time Moving 3 was made possible by the contributions of the following designers: Dr. Kate Sellen, Molly McGovern, Matthew Beaubien, and Emma MacGregor
