BEING THERE, BUT NOT, WITH NEVEJAN (Doors of Perception Report April 2)
Doors’ lifelong friend and collaborator Caroline Nevejan has completed the dissertation for her PhD on “presence and the design of trust”. Her timing could hardly be better. As George Monbiot so inconveniently demonstrates in “Heat”, each passenger on a return flight from London to New York produces roughly 1.2 tonnes of carbon dioxide. “There is no technofix to the disastrous impact of air travel on the environment…the only answer is to ground most of the aeroplanes flying today” concludes cheerful George. So Nevejan’s topic, the design of presence in technologically mediated environments, moves centre stage.
http://www.xs4all.nl/~nevejan/presence/
http://www.being-here.net/