Project Proposal

“We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment”-Margaret Mead

Whether our society is online or offline it is still reliant on an environment and as technology develops our society is moving to more wireless forms of communications. The survival of our new forms of communication is dependent on whether or not we can get connected. In my second year I scraped the surface of wireless environments as part of my Stonehouse project with a plan to come back to it and explore the theory a little more. The idea is that wireless routers create a connective bio-dome allowing users digital selves to communicate with one other through other connective bio-domes. Another interesting way of looking at these connective domes is like bubbles.  I often find when I am plugged in I can be oblivious to what is going on around me. So these bio-domes of connectivity may increase the connective ability of our digital selves but does this mean the connections with our non digital environment suffer.

As it stands my plan is to explore the connection or disconnection of these two environments on our society which will hopefully result in an interactive installation as this is where my interests lie.

Key Words:
Society, environment, wireless, bio-dome, communication,interactive,plugged-in,conflict