Process

I originally was planning to explore a solution that allows you to capture portraits of your wellbeing periodically so you can see how you've changed over time. This could also allow you to identify people, habits, or situations that impact your wellbeing. Finding "Prosthetic Manifesto" led me to consider how a system could make up for the blindspots in an individual's wellness. At this point, I decided to pivot towards a speculative project around the use of sensing and data by community administrators to intervene when members display signs of distress or deviant behavior. I started this phase by creating a set of questions (included in the next section). Then I thought through multiple scenarios in which surveillance and intervention could be successful and unsuccessful, appropriate and invasive. Around this same time, I also familiarized myself with Twine and its features. Much of the work came about as I built different trails of the story, learning about where the narratives should go as I created branches. I included the idea of switching identities to allow the reader to function as multiple characters in a future iteration. Each persona would experience a different set of scenarios within the world.