What we think is capable of embodiment in languages of varying degrees of technicality. But the special quality of a fragrance, taste, or touch cannot be projected onto a public stage other than through pictorial and linguistic means. -Yi-Fu Tuan
 

  Cyberspace, namely the rise of online journals and personal websites, has created a new method of externalizing internal processes to borderless audiences while maintaining a form of anonymity through the creation of preformed identities. Individual’s present emotions for the assessment of others and attempt to connect with others wholly removed from face to face experience and removed from any “subjective” knowledge of the individuals self, such as ethnic identity. This has the potential to reveal a deeper understanding of the ways in which bridging capital can be formed and alludes to the need for a deeper understanding of the ways preformed identity has shifted with the growth of technology.

    In this vein, this project seeks to explore these new conceptions of social space and emoting through the collection of Life Lessons. The information collected through the database below will be used for 3 projects, the Life Lessons Map, The Life Lessons wall (to be displayed here on the project site as well as displayed in physical space at specific events), and demographic analysis.

Please participate in the project by submitting the information below.