Touching at a distance

The ambition of the Touching at a Distance project is to create intimate experiences over distance using tangible and sensuous objects.
The project focuses on physical actions and tactile interfaces, and creates a bridge between people at different locations through physical objects, connected together via the internet. It removes screen, keyboard and the mouse as interface, and instead of disappearing into a virtual experience and exchanging likes in social media the project acknowledges the vitality of bodily experience and human touch.

The project grew out of the first round of the pandemic in the spring when social contact was largely constrained to communication through various digital devices and platforms, and cultural activity was mainly reduced to video streams of events from venues without audience.

I created a series of prototype objects and a blog where you can read more about this project:
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