Finding purpose in something larger than ourselves is an inherent feature of our humanity, Bell told us, and Stapleton showed us how we might use other pathways to finding meaning in alternative experiences. Whereas Genevieve Bell had called on the cognitive firepower of Martin Heidegger, who bemoaned the distractions found in our contemporary lives from our awareness of the enormity of our simply existing in an infinity of nothing, Stapleton offered what might be thought of as a phenomenological perspective, as in the ways things appear to us, how we may experience them and what meaning they have in our experiencing them.
Stapleton illustrated a variety of approaches to multi-sensory, multi-dimensional, virtual and temporal experiential exploration, all of which demonstrated the possibility of divergent thinking around how we conceive of user experience as an endeavor.Īlthough abstract in many respects, Stapleton’s ideas had practical application. Suffice to say that our existing pretensions to enhancing the user experience (slapping a screen on it, per Golden Krishna) actually diminish our engagement with the world, whereas Stapleton pointed to a more philosophical, existential approach to our embrace of potentiality (plus a range of new words to articulate this altered paradigm). His presentation at Delight 2014 was stunning, and merits more detailed reflection than I shall do here. When it comes to finding meaning and making sense of the world, Christopher Stapleton is in a world of his own. Meaning, Experiences and Making Sense of the World
I shall each day post some thoughts collected in categories of creativity, curiosity, meaning, community, and empathy.
#Unbound squish series#
This week features a series of posts endeavoring to draw themes from the Delight Conference 2014 in Portland, as well as Design Week Portland.
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