Relational Highlights: Issue #5
Over the last couple of months, we’ve fallen down a zine rabbit hole. Delving into the potential of zines as a hypermedia form. We call ‘em zeens: a spin on the print publications of yore. A new type of web3 relational media. On the zeen front, we’re exploring UI/UX patterns to innovate on group social tooling for the playful, invitational co-creation of these artifacts. This is where we’re focusing most of our squad’s energy currently - getting a concept site up for what we’re calling Our Ze...
Relational Highlights: Issue #5
Over the last couple of months, we’ve fallen down a zine rabbit hole. Delving into the potential of zines as a hypermedia form. We call ‘em zeens: a spin on the print publications of yore. A new type of web3 relational media. On the zeen front, we’re exploring UI/UX patterns to innovate on group social tooling for the playful, invitational co-creation of these artifacts. This is where we’re focusing most of our squad’s energy currently - getting a concept site up for what we’re calling Our Ze...
Relational Highlights: Issue #4
“…cyberspace is characterised [in the 1984 novel Necromancer by William Gibson] by its placelessness and a sharp division between ‘real’ and ‘virtual’ when users jack into the matrix, the ‘meat’ of the body in the physical world falls away and they enter an alternative, virtual realm where they float free from their bodies and their physical locations amongst a sea of geometric digital representations of global data flows.” - Huw Halstead: Cyberplace: From fantasies of placelessness to connec...
Relational Highlights: Issue #4
“…cyberspace is characterised [in the 1984 novel Necromancer by William Gibson] by its placelessness and a sharp division between ‘real’ and ‘virtual’ when users jack into the matrix, the ‘meat’ of the body in the physical world falls away and they enter an alternative, virtual realm where they float free from their bodies and their physical locations amongst a sea of geometric digital representations of global data flows.” - Huw Halstead: Cyberplace: From fantasies of placelessness to connec...
Relational Highlights: Issue #3
You know that feeling when you’re riding a bike up a particularly steep hill? You’re peddling for your life, the body under strain, the mind playing tricks with the stress of the ordeal. It’s exhilarating, exhausting, frustrating and, ultimately, as you crest the peak, exalting. We’re feeling a bit like we’ve summited a hill on Relational—we presented the latest OurLog prototype and vision at a recent DEF Demo Day where we received a wave of positive and helpful responses. The OurLog Gitcoin ...
Relational Highlights: Issue #3
You know that feeling when you’re riding a bike up a particularly steep hill? You’re peddling for your life, the body under strain, the mind playing tricks with the stress of the ordeal. It’s exhilarating, exhausting, frustrating and, ultimately, as you crest the peak, exalting. We’re feeling a bit like we’ve summited a hill on Relational—we presented the latest OurLog prototype and vision at a recent DEF Demo Day where we received a wave of positive and helpful responses. The OurLog Gitcoin ...
Relational Highlights: Issue #2
In the weeks following our squad’s reunion in Austin, the Relational team dispersed to celebrate summer’s end. Some of us traveled to Ireland and England for family weddings; others to Burning Man to remind us of our inherent, deep connections with nature and each other; some took to the road for adventure, exploring Colorado and Arizona; and the rest of us settled back into home life as the cooler fall weather slowly creeps in. We’ve continued using Discord as a prototype for processing and ...
Relational Highlights: Issue #2
In the weeks following our squad’s reunion in Austin, the Relational team dispersed to celebrate summer’s end. Some of us traveled to Ireland and England for family weddings; others to Burning Man to remind us of our inherent, deep connections with nature and each other; some took to the road for adventure, exploring Colorado and Arizona; and the rest of us settled back into home life as the cooler fall weather slowly creeps in. We’ve continued using Discord as a prototype for processing and ...
Relational Highlights: Week of August 15
Last week, the six-person Relational team assembled in Austin, TX for a week of brainstorming, tacos, and slow walks in the humid heat. Building on our morning shared journaling practice, we began an experiment using Discord as an rlog prototype. Each member has a personal channel to use as a research log (rlog) and everyone else is welcome to read and tag messages with the 🦤 emoji to send them to a shared stream. From the shared stream, we bubbled up some highlights to publish as a way to c...
Relational Highlights: Week of August 15
Last week, the six-person Relational team assembled in Austin, TX for a week of brainstorming, tacos, and slow walks in the humid heat. Building on our morning shared journaling practice, we began an experiment using Discord as an rlog prototype. Each member has a personal channel to use as a research log (rlog) and everyone else is welcome to read and tag messages with the 🦤 emoji to send them to a shared stream. From the shared stream, we bubbled up some highlights to publish as a way to c...
