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What would life be like without depending on digital devices? How would you communicate? How would you make ends meet?
What would life be like without digital devices? How would you communicate? How would you make ends meet?

Are you capable of it at all? Or are you trapped?

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The day’s agenda
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The day starts as we stow digital devices and reflect on our objectives:
The day starts at 10am as we stow digital devices and reflect on our objectives:

- Learn to cut digital devices out of your routine.
- Reflect on how you use them and how you would exist without.
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Next, we warm up with analogue activities for expression such as thoughtful letter-writing. These pen and paper techniques can boost productivity and expand your imaginative horizons whilst displacing machine habits.

We then dive into a specially designed LARP: you’ll enter the analogue job market. With help from the career advisor, you consider suitable analogue professions, create a CV poster, put it up on local walls, and await the results. Before the day’s out, you may well have found a new job and got paid, all with no reliance on digital devices.
In the afternoon, we dive into a specially designed LARP: you’ll enter the analogue job market. With help from the career advisor, you consider suitable analogue professions, create a CV poster, put it up on local walls, and await the results. Before the day’s out, you may well have found a new job and got paid, all with no reliance on digital devices.

This playful escapade questions your ability to get by outside of the fragile constraints of the digital realm.

Just before we end at 6pm, we will review our findings, the letters we've written, and pledge to weave these approaches into our daily life.


Come grow your analogue self
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Take this opportunity to build a more digitally-independent you.

For more info or to join our next retreat on May 31st 2024, [just send a quick email](mailto:[email protected]?subject=I want to Escape the Digital).
For more info or to join our next retreat on May 31st 2024, [just send us an email](mailto:[email protected]?subject=I want to Escape the Digital).

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More info
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**Who runs the event?**

Matthew Linares is a fair-minded futurist who has worked with and around technology through code, talks, workshops and games. I'll help you enjoy this experience to playfully reframe your ways.

**What do you need to bring?**

You should bring some snacks. We will go to lunch together at a local cafe (menu available in advance). Other than that, you won't need anything.

**Does it need to be all day long?**

We have prepared a full day’s worth of activities and suggest that you stick around To experience the whole trip.


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