Digital Wellness
Rather than completely disconnecting, the Digital Wellness Center challenges you to explore how technology can contribute to your well-being and find balance in a digital mindfulness. The exhibition blends art, science and psychology to offer a combination of interactive installations and soothing environments to understand and deal with digital overload.
Exhibition
Assistant Curator, Exhibition Spatial Designer
Next Nature Museum
The exhibition (400m²) nucleates around a giant totem in the centre allowing for multiple entrance points and multiple visitor flows, all drawing together in the centre. The space is designed as a pastiche to shinrin-yoku, a Japanese practice of mindful immersion in nature/ forest bathing; achieved through filling the space with playful 3D printed fractal trees, a collaboration with mathematician Jules Ruis and 3D printing yard Polyproducts, each tree is interactive and lends advise/ reflections to visitor about their digital wellness.
The nine works in this exhibition explore the contradictory entanglements of digital wellness.
Breathing Session, An immersive meditation by Geoffrey Lillemon, where sound, light, and architecture pulse in time with the visitor's own breath.
Your Phone is Your Master, An installation confronting visitors with the quiet power their device holds over them.
Look Into Your Eyes, A piece staging the difference between a glance at a screen and a genuine gaze into another's eyes.
Dancing in the Frame, Conceived by the Next Nature Team, a life-size phone frame that visitors dance within, sounding an alarm the moment their body dares to move beyond its edges.
Giant Brain, A sensory environment giving physical form to a mind buckling under the weight of constant digital input.
Singularity Garden, Heleen Blanken's zen gardens where robots rake sand in perfect, endless loops, quietly asking whether technology can ever deliver contentment.
Attention Span, A neuro-physical testing ground from AttentionLab, led by Stefan van der Stigchel, charting how the brain lurches between notification and calm.
Scroll Wall, Conceived by the Next Nature Team, a monumental wall that refuses the fingertip and demands the whole body, magnifying the physical action of 'scrolling' exposes and balances the addictive tendencies of infinite scrolls.
Techno Privilege, Hendrik-Jan Grievink's massage chair experience, where the comfort visitors feel shifts with every answer about their access to technology.
