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==== what are transient realities ====
  * changes in everyday reality (behaviour of matter, expectations, understanding)
  * intrusions from other realities
  * complete replacement or mutation of reality
  * temporary autonomous zones
  * amplification of invisible phenomena (micro and macro)



==== how can we generate transient realities ====
  * changes inside bodies (drugs, endurance, motoric restriction)
  * changes in the environment (modifying sensory input, destabilising the space-time continuum)
  * intrusion of the unexpected
  * //in order to coherently generate tr-s, we should look into different conceptual models of reality//


==== reality tuning (what are we transiting between) ====

  * initially: physical and virtual
    * moved into being able to tune most experiential qualities of reality:
  * tuning scale: micro <-> macro
    * spatial scale: from handheld worlds to whole cities
    * temporal scale: from split second to days
  * tuning density: thick <-> sparse
  * tuning risk: comfort <-> unease
  * tuning abstraction: photorealistic <-> impressionistic
  * tuning sensory input: liminal <-> sensory overload
	
//The tuning needs a model of reality to develop these parameters consistently, maybe [[Eight Circuit Model]]//


==== qualities of transient realitites ====

  * generating the world from the balance/inbalance of the forces that shape it
  * growth and form of shapes depends on their interaction with the environment (shaping structures from outside in)
  * interplay between physical structures and media should create an additional element of strangeness (feeling that you have been transported to a different reality)
  * //a lot more thought should be paid to this topic as this is the substance, the aesthetics, the experience we want to provide//

==== components with which we can/want to generate transient realities ====
  * modular, scalable physical structures (starting from body scale and inflating/deflating the worlds)
  * wearable technologies for on body augmentation
  * tangible media  (integrating responsive media into physical structures, inflating flat media into volumes)
  * media that can incite physical responses
  * //whatever components we make, we have to spend more time thinking and developing them, rather than working panically at the last moment; also, the integration of the different components should be felt by all makers, this will eventually transfer to the imagination of the public// 


==== output ====

  * most attention was paid to temporary responsive environments as public experiments (as opposed to public entertainment) in- and outdoors (controlled lab setups and uncontrolled small TAZs and public interventions), where all participants have to commit to engage in the experience and give feedback
  * the output should have the atmosphere of continuous generation and development that encourages involvement, rather than being a public presentation of finished results

==== audience ====
  * general audience is good in small doses (public testing  and experimental situations)
  * peer review is necessary and should be encouraged to become an exchenge of ideas and a discussion on processes and outcomes, rather than being unproductive 5 minute viewing and 50 minute nagging behind our backs afterwards
  * a good publication afterwards, including our ideals (as fictional environments), working experiments, reflections and results is a must



==== why trg? ====

TRG is an attempt to make a transporter between the 4th and the 5th circuit of consciousness (see the EightCircuitModel). One way to be 'transported': becoming aware of the interconnectedness of everything with everything else through amplification/deprivation of sensory input. A possible manner to affect sensory input is to change normalised perception from:

  * inside: drugs, extreme physical conditions, induced hallucinations...
  * outside: change of environmental sensory input (environment should become more malleable and responsive to human action (in our case by using media and soft architectures), on a human scale (visual and sonic spectrum, haptic stimuli (including awareness of spatial positions), smell and taste)
	
Bringing the inperceptible phenomena to respond on a human scale - unfold or compact micro and macro frequencies into a scale that human senses can perceive as 'reality' (usually 4d universe).

==== What kind of reality is the one we want to make? ====

It is a place where seemingly separate things become entangled (see global scaling and gcom). A place where everything is in constant fluctuation and interaction (a charged space). A place where rigid boundaries become semi-permeable membranes, sensitive to both stimuli from inside and outside. An infinite space, unfolding from interactions in different dimensions.


Qualities:

  * Compacted (magnification of perception, instantaneous travel, temperamental change of moods)
  * alive (breathing, aware, active, engaging)
  * entangled (interconnected, symbiotic)
  * charged (in constant tension and fluctuation, shaped by 4 fundamental forces)
  * infinite (semi-permeable, continuously unfolding resolutions and dimensions, possibly cyclical)