In response to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, we started considering how people and technology have chosen to remain in touch and united. How do we maintain collectivity in an individualized digital world? We as a collective have created a fictional landscape from modeling our experiences into something that can be ‘walked through’ and potentially ‘experienced’ by others. The key in this project is the record of these traces and how they intervene.

By collecting data through the surfaces generated in collective mapping landscapes we were able to translate those attempts of touch into traces: bridging a gap between bodily touch, digital collective interaction, information exchange and physical movement. We want to build a platform to touch each other and to store that touch, to remember it. We want to transform that touch into movement.

Towards that end, we as a collective have created a fictional landscape from modeling our experiences into something that can be ‘walked through’ and potentially ‘experienced’ by others. Key in this project is the record of these traces.

A collaborative project with Chucho (Jesús) Ocampo Aguilar, Faruk Sabnovic, Chi Po-Hao, and Aarti Sunder.