Dissensus

Produced as part of an art exhibition asking for prototype monuments that might better respond to our current moment, Dissensus is a sketch for a hypothetical app. The imagined app would use geo-fencing to send text messages to users phones about things other users wish to memorialize throughout the city—whether moments of trauma, joy, human connection, or alienation. Users would have no preexisting knowledge about what areas had been demarcated in this way, and would simply happen upon them. Ea...