Pathways

Pathways is a web-based tool for exploring networked media in an engaging and contemplative way. The goal is to wander and chart your desire lines in a shared digital garden of forking paths. Its 3D interface breaks away from linear and passive scrolling of algorithmic feeds. Instead it offers a dynamic and non-linear landscape of hand-curated content. Click media crossroads to wander through and lose yourself into it. This will trace your chosen path, one step at a time, while revealing new sights. Pathways emphasizes active wayfinding, stimulating intuition and serendipity. The tool promotes reflexivity, inviting wanderers to linger, revisit and dwell on their paths taken. Pathways can be saved and shared, providing ways of communal exploration. Fellow wanderers can fork from existing paths, pursuing them with their own discoveries, thereby enriching this interpretation of a shared "digital garden". This discreet social interaction fosters better access to and sharing of networked media, creating a collaborative and reflective online experience.