The Digital Tourist
This design exploration introduces the idea of a digital tourist. Informed by the previous projects regarding the transition from the physical to digital realm in our daily lives, this body of work explores the concept of travel through the digital realm. As one of the most impacted industries in the world, the rise and growth of technology has never been so heavily depended on.
The projects within this exploration is centred around creating PARALLEL EXPERIENCES and translating the physical happenings as a tourist into the digital realm.
These diagrams were the starting point to help me understand the traits and characteristics to be a tourist and a digital tourist. Extracting key ideas from both diagrams then formed the attributes of both types of tourists and are elements that I will investigate throughout my body of work in the context of digital travel
This project recreates my personal experience of being a physical tourist in Paris through the means of Google Maps. I am using it as a material to carry out the explorations, distinguishing what is lost and gained in the translation.
"The Virtual Doppelgänger" is a continuation from "Re-walk". Motivated by creating parallel experiences for a digital tourist that is not reliant on pre-captured moments, this project proposes a program that merges the physical and digital realm together to allow users to travel virtually through the lens of their physical counterpart.