Perspectacles: A Look into the Promise of a More Connected World
Berkeley Center for New Media • Wearable Design
Despite social media's promise of making the world more "connected," many of today’s problems stem from social isolation exacerbated with the use of social platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat. We've created PerSpectacles, a satirical pair of spectacles that challenges this promise of a more connected world.
Perspectacles provides a comfortable, but narrowed perspective, symbolic of the actual effect social media has on our worldview. Each of the lenses was designed to exaggerate the ways technology facilitates and manipulates the way we view the world (e.g. unduly optimistic, narrow-minded, and ignorant). The ability to manually control the filters, as users of technology, is symbolic of our role in causing our lives to become more filtered, controlled, and detached.
Features
The Filtered Lenses
