Inquiries into what happens to human experience when the interfaces surrounding us change.
“A financial terminal does not have to choose between being something you operate and somewhere you spend time. It can be both the instrument and the room.”
We have spent thirty years treating financial software as though it has to be either a tool you actively manipulate or something decorative that you passively observe. But utility and presence are not opposites.
“The campfire doesn’t ask for your attention. It gives you somewhere to put it.”
After hours of focused work, the last thing you necessarily want is another problem to solve. Your work is finished, but your attention hasn’t quite caught up. What happens when a digital space doesn’t demand your interaction?
“The market was not confined to a number on a screen. It occupied physical space.”
Walk into the Chicago Board of Trade in the late 1990s and you didn’t just see a market. You heard one. What happened when an environment that once occupied an entire room became something viewed through flat, silent glass?