Helene von Obelitz

THE COLLECTIVE™ is a 3D social network platform currently under development. It emerged from research into creating a tool to help designers navigate and embrace the conditions of COVID-19, which have introduced evolving creative dynamics and require new skills and practices. The universe of THE COLLECTIVE™ is a landscape for free self-representation and the engagement of creators, industry professionals, and in-between hybrids building on the impulses of the users' content creations and connections. It is a collective of creative intellectual playgrounds for human-to-human interactions in a cloud sphere, in which artistic expressions become realized in visual and tangible representations. The platform explores a vision of sharing progress of creation, fields of engagement, and portfolio pieces in a circular timeline. THE COLLECTIVE™ is built on a holistic foundation, in which accessibility, engagement, and transparency are key to discovering the best connections for each new creative adventure. The platform will accommodate individual practices in a collective sense, as one being interdependent on the collective to find where peers, human skills, knowledge, and resources are housed and by curiously seeking the input of contribution to our developments and research. What if we humans are dwelling libraries containing resources represented in forms, colors, lines, textures, and replicated in circular exchanges of feedback, interactions, and interconnection? A community for the explorer that co-exists in ways that are not dependent on geolocation but instead dependent on connections within THE COLLECTIVE™.