Today’s societal conversations about environmental sustainability are dominated by short soundbites and headlines mainly centered around carbon emissions and climate change. These soundbites accelerate through our ever-decreasing attention spans and fuel our natural human desire for simplified political adversaries, while further being amplified and catalyzed by technological innovations in social communication gone awry.
However, the disconnect between us and our Earth and between one another cannot be oversimplified and boiled down to two political parties and a single environmental topic.
What if we could combine art + technology to provide a mechanism for our local community to explore the more complex interconnected systems of issues and solutions?
What if we could give our community the mental space, physical space, and a social technology space to explore complex questions, topics, thoughts, and ideas in a way that sponsors togetherness and respect?
“Diodic Communeco” bridges these three actors together, beyond simple coexistence, into an extended community and one consciousness, transforming the Library’s Media Bridge into an expanded lens allowing us to peer into our interconnected possible futures. The Bridge allows us to both investigate and face possibilities, to shed the carbon tunnel vision that separates us, and to embrace shared rethinking, dialogue, and an openness to explore the complex interconnected systems beyond the current limited views that dominate public dialogue.
Through their mobile phones, passersby are able to engage with a cybernetic animated forest of particles that listen, breathe, peer into the future, and deliver prophecies of an expanded vision of sustainability.
How to Interact
When at the Media Bridge, scan the QR code that appears on the screen for “Diodic Communeco” to learn more. Through their mobile phones, passersby are able to engage with a cybernetic animated forest of particles that listen, breathe, peer into the future, and deliver prophecies of an expanded vision of sustainability. If you too seek other ways of knowing, connecting, regenerating, and thriving, we invite you to ask the Bridge and get answers.
Inspired Action Design (IAD)
We are a network of physical and digital practitioners with a collective passion for making lasting impressions by weaving together technology, emotional architecture, storytelling, and beautiful content.
We believe experience design should resonate emotionally and inspire positive action.
Whether it’s inspiring community building, advocacy for public good, or a purchase that elevates well-being, intentional XD is a powerful force that can create connections across diverse perspectives.
IAD was created by former design + technology executives and leaders who love working together and have over 85 years of collective experience in interactive environments, digital marketing, digital business transformation, and product design.
The following practitioners collaborated to create “Diodic Communeco”:
- Hunter Spence (Production & Story Design)
- Joel Krieger (Experience Design)
- Matt Lewis (Technology)
- Mauricio Talero (Graphic Design)
