Ecofeminist Design for Digital Third Spaces

Abstract

Our experiences of otherness intertwined with our sociality are rife with alienation and exclusion, as we are forced to navigate spaces that are inherently not designed for us. In this existential experience of being in the world, marked by ever-present otherness, we seek spaces of belonging where we feel at home. We find safe spaces by secluding ourselves in hermitage with those who are closest to us, or by escaping to surround ourselves with trees, communing with other living things that give us solidarity and sociality.