Long Now Lab #4: Prototyping Time

What might it entail to reimagine and rework our relationship to time? 

This April, we launch a new Long Now Lab, looking at relationships to time and how these can be shifted. Hosted and designed by Julien Thomas, an installation artist and social designer whose work often looks at iterating sensations of time and how time can be artistically invoked. In a unique period of enormous insecurity where time often feels like it’s standing still or zooming faster than ever, we inspect how we relate to and hope to relate to, time.

Reflecting and reacting to inputs ranging from social design to philosophy to psychoacoustics we will explore how time is structured, experienced and performed. We will support each other in collective and self inquiry to collectively examine aspects of time and begin a practice of prototyping together; manifesting altered relationships to time. Through readings, exercises and discussions we will journey through various domains of knowing and acting (cognitive linguistics, psychoacoustics, phenomenology, design research, dance).

Asking: How do we participate in notions of time as linear and progressive? What might it entail to reimagine our relationship to time?

The overall aim of the series will be to collectively examine aspects of time and how they may be shifted to produce alternative strategies of making, taking, consuming, crafting, moving and shifting time.

– The Long Now Lab #4 group is full but you are more than welcome to attend the public sharing in which the group shares it’s findings on the 3rd of July. –