23/08/16 Blog Entry

In class today, we discussed three ideas we found would be strongest for our question “how do we remove the awkwardness form social interactions?”.
The key words in this question are ‘remove the awkwardness’ and ‘social interaction’.
- are we the ones removing the awkwardness? Or are we just providing an event that causes the audience to di themselves?
- does the social interaction have to be face to face?

ME TOO: “several people write a secret, story or fact they relate to and if somebody else agrees they write ‘me too’ on that persons card & through that they can talk about this situation together.

DOGGY DAY: “an event organised where dog owners bring their dogs to a park along with some food and other people pet the dogs & talk to the owners. The dog collars could potentially alo have information about the dog and the owner to further push the idea of interaction.”

BUBBLED THOUGHTS:  “People write about themselves and leave contact information in a balloon then let it fly away, covering distance between strangers and also removing the face to face interaction and possible rejection from strangers”


However, through these ideas, we must consider all the points and different types of loneliness. Going back to our target audience (or for example, Bonezy):

- new to the city

-       feeling excluded

-       living alone

-       nobody to talk to

-       nobody to rely on

-       lack of physical contact

-       self esteem issues

-       trust issues

-       fear/often afraid

-       no social support

We need to pin point the forms of communication, and what ways we are building up social support/a common ground.
If loneliness is the theme, how can we get a group of people feeling lonely together in order to, not remove the loneliness entirely, but lessen the pain.