Moment
/ Portal
In today's media landscape, time is often treated as a commodity; measured, optimized, and extracted in the form of attention. Moment/Portal responds to this logic by imagining other digital temporalities. Ones that resist extraction and encourage relational time. This project explores how digital spaces might open up portals to alternative rhythms, durations, and ways of being in time, offering a chance to reframe, dissolve or even obliterate inherited notions of temporal experience.
1. Research & Stakeholder Insight
To better understand how people experience time in digital spaces, I created and distributed a survey via Typeform to a small group of digital creatives, students, and critical media users. Their responses revealed that digital media often makes time feel accelerated; an insight that became central to this project’s goal of reimagining digital time as spacious, meaningful, and relational.
2. Planning
I mapped out a structure for the website and began exploring how digital environments might express different relationships to time. Using a concept-driven planning approach inspired by speculative design and systems thinking, I defined four distinct “portals,” each embodying a unique temporal perspective; from cyclical and ecological to cosmic and dissolving.
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3. Prototype V1
The first version of the prototype establishes the overall layout, navigation, and visual language of the site. While the interactive elements within each portal are still in development, the foundation is in place to begin shaping how users move through and engage with alternative experiences of time.
Click here to see the working prototype! ➡️
