http://hapticity.net/2009/12/20/what-can-gardens-teach-us-about-digitality/ postcards from the mirror's edge. Wed, 27 Oct 2010 18:27:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://hapticity.net/2009/12/20/what-can-gardens-teach-us-about-digitality/comment-page-1/#comment-1677 gratefulgemini Sat, 10 Apr 2010 21:13:33 +0000 http://hapticity.net/?p=3362#comment-1677 Harrison seems to me to be on point. We have lost our haptic expereinces within this age of technology. We have designed our worlds so that the visual sensation is overwhelmed, while other sensations are denied. This is due largely to technology, which has also expanded our seditary lifestyles. Why just look at us! We are engaging in a disconnected form of communication. One where we will never meet, or truly know one another. This is how we are engaging with our environments too. We see our world from our windshields mostly, rushing from place to place. I guess if you live in a city, as I do not, then you would be rushing about on foot, but I bet you haven't left home without your ipod. I don't mean to put technology down. It is a great thing. However, I see every day children who are overweight & unconnected/unconcerned about their environment. This is what we should be worried about. The fact that todays youth would typically rather play a video game or be on the internet, rather than be outside engaging in their environment. Gardens are haptic expereinces connecting us with the timelessness and change. Whereas our computers and video games are largely visual expereinces, involved merely with the present. In this age of technology, We are losing connections to our environment, to our world, to our history, and even to each other. Harrison seems to me to be on point. We have lost our haptic expereinces within this age of technology. We have designed our worlds so that the visual sensation is overwhelmed, while other sensations are denied. This is due largely to technology, which has also expanded our seditary lifestyles. Why just look at us! We are engaging in a disconnected form of communication. One where we will never meet, or truly know one another. This is how we are engaging with our environments too. We see our world from our windshields mostly, rushing from place to place. I guess if you live in a city, as I do not, then you would be rushing about on foot, but I bet you haven’t left home without your ipod. I don’t mean to put technology down. It is a great thing. However, I see every day children who are overweight & unconnected/unconcerned about their environment. This is what we should be worried about. The fact that todays youth would typically rather play a video game or be on the internet, rather than be outside engaging in their environment. Gardens are haptic expereinces connecting us with the timelessness and change. Whereas our computers and video games are largely visual expereinces, involved merely with the present. In this age of technology, We are losing connections to our environment, to our world, to our history, and even to each other.

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