From 7661ce93cdc17e3f5aec035c6fc6dabbb6330572 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matthew Linares Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2024 21:38:47 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] ETD post. --- _posts/2024-04-29-escape-the-digital.md | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/_posts/2024-04-29-escape-the-digital.md b/_posts/2024-04-29-escape-the-digital.md index ebaa96e..3250801 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-04-29-escape-the-digital.md +++ b/_posts/2024-04-29-escape-the-digital.md @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ permalink: /2024/04/29/digital-detox-retreat-larp/ --- {% include JB/setup %} -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? @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ Are you capable of it at all? Or are you trapped? The day’s agenda ---------------- -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. @@ -33,10 +33,12 @@ The day starts as we stow digital devices and reflect on our objectives: 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 ---------------------------- @@ -45,8 +47,24 @@ Escape the Digital is a visionary detox event designed to boost your non-digital 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:matthewlinares@protonmail.com?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:matthewlinares@protonmail.com?subject=I want to Escape the Digital). + +
+ +More info +--------- + +**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. - +